In last week's issue of Entertainment Weekly, one of my favorite actors and free spirits James Franco opened up about why he chooses so many gay roles to play:
"It’s funny because the way that kind of stuff is talked about on blogs is so black-and-white...It’s all cut-and-dry identity politics. 'Is he straight or is he gay?' Or, 'This is your third gay movie — come out already!' And all based on, gay or straight, based on the idea that your object of affection decides your sexuality...
...There are lots of other reasons to be interested in gay characters than wanting myself to go out and have sex with guys. And there are also lots of other aspects about these characters that I’m interested in, in addition to their sexuality. So, in some ways it’s coincidental, in other ways it’s not. I mean, I’ve played a gay man who’s living in the ’60s and ’70s, a gay man who we depicted in the ‘50s, and one being in the ‘20s. And those were all periods when to be gay, at least being gay in public, was much more difficult. Part of what I’m interested in is how these people who were living anti-normative lifestyles contended with opposition. Or, you know what, maybe I’m just gay."
I agree with him 1000% Sexuality is not as black and white as the media tries to make it out to be. Sex and sexuality is complicated, and you can't just point your finger in one direction and say this is the way things are. I wish more of these stories would be explored in films, and less 'on oh you must suck dick in real life because you play gay roles all the time.' People can just be so misinformed and ignorant at times and it irritates me. I applaus James for being his true authentic self and worrying less about what people think of him and their hangups over how he should be because they can't figure him out.
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