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6 July 2004 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Although it remains virtually unheard of for an openly gay actor to play a leading romantic role opposite a female star, the number of straight actors willing to accept gay roles appears to be rising, published reports indicated on Monday. In fact, according to the British website gay.co.uk, Jude Law has agreed to play a gay character for a second time, this time opposite Paul Bettany in a new theatrical adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. (Bettany's character also has a female love interest in the movie, played by his real-life wife, Jennifer Connelly.) Law also played a gay character in the 1997 movie Wilde. Other straight actors appearing as gay characters: Colin Farrell in A Home at the End of the World and Alexander; Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain; and Kevin Kline in De-Lovely. (He also played a gay man in 1997's In and Out. »

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1 article from 2004