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Rupert Everett ‘frustrated’ he wasn’t cast in this acclaimed gay film: “That role should have been mine”

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Out actor Rupert Everett recently shared his take on the ongoing “straight actors in gay roles” debate, and to sum up his views: It’s complicated.Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored (cringe), the My Policeman star said that while he doesn’t think all gay roles should be played by gay actors, there was one gay role he really wished had gone to a specific gay actor — him.“It’s quite frustrating.

I was frustrated, I remember going to see Colin Firth in the [2009] film by Tom Ford [A Single Man]. I thought, ‘Well, thanks, Colin.

That’s the end of my career. Because you know, that role really should have been mine,” he said. “So you know, there’s a frustration about that, of course.”Firth’s performance as a gay English professor grieving the death of his lover earned him major accolades, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.That one disappointment aside, Everett sees a bigger problem in openly gay actors rarely being cast in straight roles.Related: Aaron Sorkin says casting only gay actors in gay roles is an “empty gesture”“There’s many examples of fantastic straight actors playing great gay roles.

Then there’s some less good, and I think the question is more, ‘Why can’t gay actors play straight roles?’” Everett said.“The thing that was very frustrating, when I had my big Hollywood moment, which was playing a gay best friend and being gay, it was at that point very difficult to graduate,” Everett said, speaking of  the1997 rom-com “My Best Friend’s Wedding” starring Julia Roberts.“I knew I had to try and graduate to playing something else apart from just that role,” he said. “I felt that it was more or less impossible.

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