Neil Patrick Harris loves seeing actors play unexpected roles. In a new interview with U.K. newspaper the Times, the star of the new AIDS-era drama “It’s a Sin” was asked about recent comments by series creator Russel T.
Davies on the issue of straight actors playing gay characters. RELATED: Neil Patrick Harris Celebrates Twins’ Milestone Birthday “I’m not being woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I cast someone in a story, I am casting them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on drugs or a criminal or a saint… they are not there to ‘act gay’ because ‘acting gay’ is a bunch of codes for a performance,” Davies told Radio Times. “You wouldn’t cast someone able-bodied and put them in a wheelchair, you wouldn’t Black someone up.