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The Prom, calling the actor’s flamboyant performance “offensive,” “the worst gay-face,” and “horrifically bad.”
“There’s no beating around the bush: It’s painful to watch James Corden lean into effeminate gay stereotypes and play up sassy gay flourishes,” reported IndieWire‘s Zack Sharf.
Sharf went on to say that the actor “picks and chooses the moments he wants to dial up the flamboyance on a line of dialogue, or to sass up a hand gesture or an eye-roll,” but that he isn’t consistent, and “treats flamboyancy as a selective choice, rather than a personality trait.”
“The inconsistency means that Corden is playing off crass gay stereotype rather than sublimating them into his character,” added Sharf.