I'd also point out the "ohohoho, isn't playing a character an actor's JOB?! Checkmate homos!" brigade change their tune pretty fucking quickly when Idris Elba is suggested as Bond.
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I have very little issue with straight actors playing gay characters but that doesn't mean I want Jack Whitehall's interpretation of what a camp gay man acts like, like a Jim Davidson sketch from 1987.
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He's of the David Walliams/James Corden school of "Haha, isn't being gay funny!!!1! I am of course not a gay, gross, but ahahahahaha kissing a man!!! Imagine?!?!??"
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It'd be fine for a camp character to be a funny supporting character, but I think casting a camp gay man in the part would make it more "laughing with" rather "laughing at"
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Interestingly, Jim Davidson played a gay singer in Colour Me Kubrick with John Malkovich
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Wow that sounds... not good.
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