Russell T Davies says he will happily defend his call to stop casting straight actors in gay roles and insists he never meant to upstage heterosexual actors
Earlier this month, the screenwriter, 57, said gay characters in his latest drama are played by gay actors
It s A Sin follows the stories of three gay 18-year-olds who arrive in London in 1981, at the beginning of the HIV epidemic
Davies said at the time directors must cast gay men because you wouldn t black someone up
Discussing his comments on Thursday s Loose Women, he said that he will happily defend his remarks and that he never meat to upstage straight stars
A prominent gay British actor has rejected calls from acclaimed screenwriter Russell T Davies for gay performers to be prioritised for LGBT roles.
James Dreyfus, who played pioneering gay roles in Nineties sitcoms The Thin Blue Line and Gimme Gimme Gimme, said an actor s sexuality has nothing to do with their ability to convince and amaze .
And the 52-year-old believes audiences would be deprived of the superlative recent performances put on by straight stars if roles were only based on sexual orientation.
His comments come after Davies - best known for his work on Queer As Folk and Doctor Who - said gay actors should get LGBT roles and compared a straight actor playing a gay character to black face.
Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Jim Carrey among the winners of the first-ever 2021 Critics Choice Super Awards
By Zach Harper
The Boys,
Palm Springs were big winners at the inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards on Jan. 10.
Da 5 Bloods,
Spike Lee s war movie that stars the late
Chadwick Boseman, was named Best Action Movie at the event. The film also took home the Best Actor in an Action movie for
Delroy Lindo s performance. The movie, which is one of Chadwick s final motion pictures, has been hotly tipped for this year s
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