Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it's not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles.
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I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.
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 was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun.
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.
Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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.
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.
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