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4 January 2011 4:11 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh reignites row over sexuality in the film industry, saying gay actors are shut out

A Us commentator has reignited a row over gay actors in Hollywood after claiming that studios shut out stars who make their sexuality public.

Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh was widely vilified in April when he wrote a piece claiming that openly gay TV star Sean Hayes, best known for his role as the flamboyant Jack in Will and Grace, did not make a convincing straight character in the Broadway play Promises, Promises. In a new article, Setoodeh, who is himself gay, suggests that gay men are not even able to play gay roles because Hollywood prefers to hand them to straight actors.

"The lovable lesbian wives in The Kids Are All Right were played by the heterosexual actresses Annette Bening and Julianne Moore," writes Setoodeh. "The quirky couple in I Love You Phillip Morris »

- Ben Child

1 item from 2011