The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.
People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.
Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.
The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.
As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'