Invisible boundaries stop gay actors taking lead roles, claims Colin Firth
POSTED: Sat 13 February 2010"Invisible boundaries" are preventing out gay actors from taking leading roles, according to actor Colin Firth.
Firth plays a gay man in his latest film A Single Man. Speaking at the UK premiere of the movie, he said: "There might be risks for a gay actor coming out. The politics of that are quite complex, it seems to me. If you're known as a straight guy, playing a gay role, you get rewarded for that. If you're a gay man and you want to play a straight role, you don't get cast - and if a gay man wants to play a gay role now, you don't get cast.
"I think it needs to be addressed and I feel complicit in the problem. I don't mean to be. I think we should all be allowed to play whoever - but I think there are still some invisible boundaries which are still uncrossable."
