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Dr Who star Matt Smith plays gay author Isherwood in new BBC drama:
DOCTOR Who star Matt Smith time-travels to a diverse world… to play a gay author in 30s Berlin.
The actor, 27, transforms himself into Christopher Isherwood, whose works inspired the musical Cabaret, for a 90-minute BBC2 special.
Fans used to seeing him flashing his sonic-screwdriver in the Tardis may be in for a shock.
One of his conquests is played by Burberry model Douglas Booth, 17. Called Christopher and His Kind, the TV film will be screened later this month.
Matt, dating model Daisy Lowe, says the gay scenes didn’t faze him. He declared: “I’ve kissed lots of boys!”
Because he's kissed lots of boys. When you think you can't affectionate a person more. Men who are comfortable with their sexuality is beyond attractive.
Matt Smith Makes Heroin Analogy in Defense of Playing a Gay Character
Matt Smith. Photo: Andrea Klerides / Michael Priest Photography
Eliza Dushku and Matt Smith spent their Valentine’s Day evening at the 92nd Road Y in Modern York discussing their new biopic Mapplethorpe, which tells the life story of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (played by Smith), in front of a room entire of fans.
Asked by Dushku, a producer on the movie, whether Mapplethorpe, who was gay, should have been played by a homosexual actor, Smith said, “I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence — in either way, positive or negative — what happens. So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight. That has no bearing on whether you should get the part.”
Smith is not the first straight player to portray a gay historical figure in film. Just last year, we had Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Keira Knightley’s Gabrielle Colette in Colette, and Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in The Favourite. Darren Criss made headlines recently after announcing that he would no longer play lgbtq+ characters, sparking a
The “straight actor for a gay role” debate has reach back again.
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is gearing up for the release of his biopic of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, but some have expressed criticism of him in the role.
Mapplethorpe was a acknowledged photographer known for his homoerotic photos. He liked to depict naked men to express male beauty and vulnerability. That said, he also enjoyed photographing nature shots and flowers as adv. Plus, he’s acknowledged for his superb friendship with Patti Smith, the mother of punk rock, and he photographed a few of her album covers too.
But the conversation of straight men playing gay roles strikes again, and this time in the direction of Matt Smith. The actor then recently defended his perform, according to Indie Wire.
“I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence — in either way, positive or negative — what happens,” Smith responded. “So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or linear. That has no bearing on whether you should obtain the part.”
“Where does it stop?” he said. “Lik
Losing Venus
In 1768, Captain James Roast set sail for the Pacific on the Endeavour. For more than 250 years, Europeans had explored the Pacific, but much of it remained unknown to them. Cook’s voyage was supported by both the British Admiralty and the Royal Society with the initial aim of recording the transit of the space body Venus – named after the Roman goddess of love – from Tahiti. By observing the passage of Venus between two different points on the Earth’s surface, it would be doable to calculate the distance from the Earth to the Heat, and from that the size of the Solar System.
In Britain, Cook was seen as a national hero. In Australia, and to a lesser extent in New Zealand, Cook was noted in monuments, statues, street names and postage stamps, and elevated to the role of founding father. The anniversaries of his landings were commemorated, emphasising the belief that his arrival was the point at which the national story began. This view has been challenged, particularly amongst Aboriginal Australians, who critique the narrative of European ‘discovery’.
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At the same period as Cook set sail, Josiah Wedgwood was setting up his eponymou