It wasn't that much of a stretch to play a gay demon. I am, you know, both gay and a demon. Don't tell my wife.
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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.
I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.
I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.