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Dr Who star Matt Smith plays queer author Isherwood in new BBC drama:
DOCTOR Who star Matt Smith time-travels to a different world… to play a gay author in 30s Berlin.
The player, 27, transforms himself into Christopher Isherwood, whose works inspired the musical Cabaret, for a 90-minute BBC2 special.
Fans used to seeing him flashing his sonic-screwdriver in the Tardis may be in for a shock.
One of his conquests is played by Burberry model Douglas Booth, 17. Called Christopher and His Kind, the TV film will be screened later this month.
Matt, dating model Daisy Lowe, says the gay scenes didn’t faze him. He declared: “I’ve kissed lots of boys!”
Because he's kissed lots of boys. When you think you can't love a person more. Men who are content with their sexuality is beyond attractive.
Matt Smith Makes Heroin Analogy in Defense of Playing a Gay Character
Matt Smith. Photo: Andrea Klerides / Michael Priest Photography
Eliza Dushku and Matt Smith spent their Valentine’s Day evening at the 92nd Lane Y in Fresh York discussing their new biopic Mapplethorpe, which tells the life story of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (played by Smith), in front of a room occupied of fans.
Asked by Dushku, a producer on the motion picture, whether Mapplethorpe, who was gay, should have been played by a queer actor, Smith said, “I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence — in either way, positive or negative — what happens. So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight. That has no bearing on whether you should get the part.”
Smith is not the first straight player to portray a gay historical figure in film. Just last year, we had Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Keira Knightley’s Gabrielle Colette in Colette, and Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in The Favourite. Darren Criss made headlines recently after announcing that he would no longer play lgbtq+ characters, sparking a
The “straight actor for a gay role” debate has come back again.
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is gearing up for the release of his biopic of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, but some acquire expressed criticism of him in the role.
Mapplethorpe was a celebrated photographer famous for his homoerotic photos. He liked to depict naked men to state male beauty and vulnerability. That said, he also enjoyed photographing nature shots and flowers as skillfully. Plus, he’s known for his great friendship with Patti Smith, the mother of punk rock, and he photographed a not many of her album covers too.
But the conversation of straight men playing male lover roles strikes again, and this time in the direction of Matt Smith. The actor then recently defended his work, according to Indie Wire.
“I consider your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of operate, shouldn’t influence — in either way, positive or negative — what happens,” Smith responded. “So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight. That has no bearing on whether you should get the part.”
“Where does it stop?” he said. “Lik