I can see that a bit in Foster's performances... Even as a child actor in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore...
Also, I don't think it's just our perception of the celebrities, rather I think it is something in their acting... For example, I think Matt Bomer plays straight much better than Groff (who plays Holden Ford), despite him being a good looking gay man... Could he pull off playing a Robert Mitchum type character? No, absolutely not. But he could play a contemporary, cosmopolitain straight man as a lot of them are very metrosexual and blur gender lines more than previous generations... This is just a guess, I haven't seen him do it.
I think in most cases it's just poor acting. It's especially clear in the scenes between Groff and the woman who plays his girlfriend... It's like he isn't even trying to act straight and I noticed this before learning that the actor was a gay man, as I haven't seen his work before... I still wonder if it was intentional... It's a huge contrast to his co-star Holt McCallany.
I am not very familair with celebrity culture, so I tend not to know who is gay or straight, but I do watch a lot of movies... It's striking how little hetrosexual masculinity there is on screen nowadays... It's usually just infantalised boy-men, or desexualised characters, as even gay characters are rare jn big movies these days... but sometimes with TV shows it's more the case of ambigious sexuality as it is here in Mindhunters.
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LetThemEatCake (2717)
7 years ago
well Jodie Foster is a great actress but what can I say?? She's a man. Lots of transexual people choose to live as gay people, it's a fact and this comes across in her performances. I was recently rewatching scenes of The Accused and it just doesn't work. Queen Latifah is another man. She hasn't come out yet because I hate to say it but it DOES affect the way you perceive the actor and their ability to portray characters convincingly.
Believe me it is not intentional. Telling Groff to man up would be a huge no no nowadays so people are just going to turn the blind eye and delude themselves into being impressed by his flamboyant acting. His appearance on Stephen Colbert and the way Groff looked at him up and down and tilted his head like a flirtatious woman and then started shimmying his shoulders along to the music, I mean it's laughable. I'm not lying, you can go check the video yourself, the only thing that boggles my mind like I said is how some people tolerate that behavior in some but not others. I fell under the category of the intolerables, lord knows why. Either way Groff is shit and he ruins this show and no one will admit it but it won't change the fact that it is bad and it won't stand the test of time.
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vicky_lc2001 (1907)
7 years ago
I'm not familiar with Groff and like I said on another that, he came across as very gay to me too. But that and his acting I think is the weakest on this show unfortunately.
I think a lot of British actors, including gay ones are very convincing in playing straight characters.
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