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LGBTQ+ characters played by straight actors
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3/2/2023
It appears that all the “cool kids” in the UK are drinking Prime.
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Euphoria's Jacob Elordi and Babylon's Diego Calva are set to star opposite as lovers in an upcoming
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film so we need to talk about the long-standing question of whether straight actors should still
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play queer characters. Elordi and Calva have been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Shannon
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Pughfall's novel On Swift Horses. Elordi will play Julius, a war veteran who while in Las Vegas
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meets a blackjack artist named Henry played by Calva and a love interest soon forms. The casting
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announcement was met with much excitement by fans of the two actors but as with similar performances
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it prompted discussions on straight actors playing queer characters. Some audiences have argued that
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only queer actors have the authenticity to bring these parts to life. Others say some actors who
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play these roles may not be out publicly as was the case for Heartstopper's Kit Conner who came
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out as bisexual after being shamed for playing a queer role. Either way when we look at LGBTQ plus
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characters in general on-screen representation is actually at an all-time high. The 2021 to 2022
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annual GLAAD TV report found that 11.9% of characters in scripted broadcast primetime
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programming are LGBTQ plus which is a new record.
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