has chimed in on the long-running discourse around casting straight actors in gay roles. After portraying ‘s gay mentor in , premiering Oct. 11 in theaters, the Golden Globe winner said he thinks LGBTQ actors should be “given more weight” when it comes to casting LGBTQ roles.
“Yes, it’s absolutely valid,” he told the . “I’m sort of old fashioned, maybe, in the belief that, fundamentally, it’s [about] a person’s artistry, and that great artists, historically, have been able to, as it were, change the stamp of their nature. That’s your job as an actor.
The task, in a way, is to render something that is not necessarily your native habitat. ..
. While I don’t think that it’s necessary [for gay roles to be played by gay performers], I think that it would be good if that were given more weight.” Written by Gabe Sherman, charts a young Trump’s ( ) ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Cohn.
The movie also stars as Fred Trump Sr., and as Ivana Trump. Cohn’s sexuality was an open secret, despite playing a crucial role in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s McCarthy era.
Although he denied his diagnosis, Cohn died of AIDS-related complications in 1986. Strong added, “What I do feel, whoever plays any part ever, is that you have to take these things as seriously as you take your own life, and it is not a game, and that these people and their struggles and the experiences you’re trying to render a.
