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I wanted to be wanted.
And he smelled like shit.
It’s fine. You’re 18. I get the sense that historically, there could be more of a distance between actors and their public, but partly due to social media, that distance has gotten compressed,” she says. The issue isn’t that straight actors are incapable of portraying queer characters with empathy and depth.
Because deep down, we’ve been taught that their approval means something. Landing a role as a straight character is particularly difficult for gay actors who are younger or less established. But because we’re so starved for validation, we’ll pay for it.
Gay-for-pay isn’t new. This means that when they’re casting for a gay role, they will encounter people whose sexuality you simply don’t know and who are reluctant to volunteer that information.
Its underperformance was instantly dissected as either proof that “America isn’t ready” or that niche doesn’t sell. A way to support their families and the lifestyles they wish to live.
Just because it is made for sexual reasons, doesn’t mean the work itself is just as sexualised.
Two straight men have decided to open up about why they decided to participate in gay porn for cash.
The two star in MTV documentary series True Life, which aims to look at the world of ‘gay for pay’ porn.
The series offers some insight into the world of gay porn and the truths that surround it.
Both men, Luke and Ben, are in relationships with women.
In fact, now that it tends to be associated with auteur-led, independent cinema rather than middle-brow Oscar bait, it’s more clouty than ever before. And that fact alone doesn’t make the performance any less compelling—Kroll is excellent in the role. Because for the first time, you’re let in. The film, written by and starring Billy Eichner, was unapologetically queer, loud, and proud.
In recent months, a flurry of new productions have been announced in which straight actors – or least, actors who are not publicly gay – will play gay characters. We watch.
And when he moans “fuck yeah, bro” into his phone camera for £9.99 a month — we let ourselves believe it’s for us.
Just like we did in the Clio.
When Nick Kroll appears in the comedy horror flick, “I Don’t Understand You”—playing Dom, a neurotic, magnetic gay man navigating a disastrous Italian anniversary trip with his husband Cole (Andrew Rannells)—I did what many viewers might do: I Googled him.
There have been many prominent examples (Tom Hanks won Best Actor for playing a gay man with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), Sean Penn for starring in a biopic about gay civil rights activists in Milk), but if such a strategy exists, it’s no longer as viable today: it certainly didn’t out for Bradley Cooper this year, whose performance as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro was snubbed, or Paul Mescal, who wasn’t even nominated for All of Us Strangers.
But there is still a residual sense of prestige for the straight actor playing gay, and while they are far less likely to be described as “brave” for doing so, it still seems to be a mark of seriousness, a way of proving your chops.
Andrew Rannells, who plays Cole, is openly gay. Think: sweaty cowboys, prison tattoos, Tom of Finland’s cartoonishly butch cops with bulges like bowling balls.