Why not? Neil Patrick Harris responded to showrunner Russel T. Davies‘ recent comments to Radio Times claiming straight actors shouldn’t play gay roles.Speaking with The Sunday Times., the A Series of Unfortunate Events star, 47, disagreed.“I’m not one to jump onto labeling.
As an actor, you certainly hope you can be a visible option for all kinds of different roles. I played a character [in How I Met Your Mother] for nine years that was nothing like me,” Harris said on Thursday, January 21, before clarifying that he believed Davies’ comments were “speaking more about the joyfulness of being able to be authentic.”He went on to cite other actors, including Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly and Charlie Hunnam, who played gay men in Queer as Folk — a