Hugh Culber on CBS All Access' “Star Trek: Discovery,” he made history playing gay high school student Ricky in the ‘90s show “My So Called Life.” It was the first time an openly gay actor played a gay character in a leading role in a TV series. “I think when a cis person goes in to play a trans role,” Luna said of cisgender, or nontransgender, actors, “they're bringing more of a projection.” Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon and Lovie Simone in a scene from "The Craft: Legacy." Rafy Photographyīefore actor Wilson Cruz starred as the openly gay Dr.
His character, Barry Glickman, is a narcissistic theater actor who dons sparkling tuxedo jackets, talks with a stereotypical gay lisp while flailing his hands around and describes himself as “gay as a bucket of wigs.” From left, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Keegan-Michael Key in "The Prom." Melinda Sue Gordon / NetflixĮrik Anderson, who runs the film site Awards Watch, called “The Prom” a “gorgeous and vibrant production” but tweeted that Corden’s “performance is gross and offensive, the worst gayface in a long, long time.”
In early December, Netflix dropped its highly anticipated musical comedy “The Prom,” starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells and James Corden as fading Broadway stars who set out to help a lesbian teen take her girlfriend to the prom.The film, helmed by out director Ryan Murphy, got mixed reviews, but some lambasted it as “ homophobic” and “ offensive” because of the casting of Corden, a straight actor, in what they saw as an “ aggressively flamboyant” caricature of a gay man.