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Simon Callow blasts Tom Hanks’ take on playing gay, calls it a “dangerous idea”

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Actor Simon Callow has weighed in on the “should straight actors take gay roles” debate after Tom Hanks recently said he could not as a straight man today play his 1993 role in the movie Philadelphia.Callow, who is gay and has appeared in films like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Amadeus, called it a “dangerous idea” that only out-gay actors should take gay parts.Hanks won an Oscar for his work in Philadelphia as lawyer Andrew Beckett, who hides his sexuality and HIV status from colleagues before suing his former employers for firing him.

Earlier this month, he said he felt the world has moved “beyond that now” and “wouldn’t accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy.”Callow respectfully disagrees.In an interview on GB News on Tuesday, the 73-year-old actor countered: “Think of all the wonderful performances of people who are not gay have given: John Hurt, Daniel Day Lewis, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.“I mean, these are all as far as I know, heterosexual actors who’ve given utterly convincing credible and illuminating performances.”He added: “Though I’m gay, it doesn’t qualify me to play all the many different kinds of gay people that there are.

It’s a very simple idea and a dangerous idea that you can only play someone who you actually are.“So although I think Tom Hanks’ heart is clearly in the right place, I think it’s a terribly important thing that we stress, but actors are about imagination, about creating characters.”Later in the interview, he said the idea that “only people who are something should act them” is not an “enlightened” view.“It’s a limiting thing.

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