Echoing Rebel Wilson s sentiment that it is total nonsense that gay actors should play gay roles, the actor said performers should be given the opportunity to take on a variety of parts.
Stephen Fry has supported Russell T Davis decision to cast homosexual actors in Channel 4 drama It s a Sin.
In a new interview, the screen star, 63, insisted there is something magically extra about knowing the show s characters are young gay men .
The writer told TravelGay: I think Russell was absolutely right. There is a sort of feeling as you watch it about how those boys could have been us. He is absolutely right : Stephen Fry has supported Russell T Davis decision to cast homosexual actors in Channel 4 drama It s a Sin
On relating to the drama - which chronicles the lives and deaths of a group of friends in the 1980s AIDS epidemic - the comedian said: There is something magically extra about knowing that the boys are themselves young gay men.
Stephen Fry has said he blames the director of Netflix s newest musical for James Corden s camp, podgy 1970s performance as a gay man in The Prom.
Corden s portrayal of Barry Glickman in The Prom, and his subsequent Golden Globes nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy, sparked a backlash earlier this month as fans claimed he gave a stereotypical depiction of a gay man.
Fry, 63, has revealed that he believes the film s director Ryan Murphy is at fault for failing to tell talk show host Corden to dial it down .
Fry told TravelGay: I don t want to add to the hate James Corden is receiving [for that role].
It s A Sin writer Russell T Davies has urged Hollywood stars to turn down gay roles in films and instead encourage producers to instead cast an LGBT actor.
The 57-year-old producer said famous gay actors don t exist to lead blockbusters and straight actors must step aside to help them get more opportunities.
All the gay characters in his Channel 4 drama, which chronicles the lives and deaths of a group of friends in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, are played by LGBT actors.
But Swansea-born Davies, who is gay, admitted his house was built off straight people who played gay parts and said any change has to begin at ground level .
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