Actor To Stop Taking Gay Roles Because Audiences Keep Thinking He’s Gay
Alwyn Uytingco, the 23-year-old Filipino actor who’s part of Star Magic, Inc. (sort of like Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club), says he’s no longer going to take parts that call for him to play gay, like he did in last year’s comedy Ang Tanging Ina Mo (Last na ‘To!) (Your Only Mom (It’s final!)). How come? Because it has some of his fans thinking he’s gay in real life. Note to John Travolta: start screening your movies in the Philippines first.
I guess I’ll say it since no one else is saying it… The guy looks gay to me and it’s usually the gay actor who doesn’t want anyone thinking he’s a homosexual. I would think any heterosexual actor wouldn’t mind playing gay roles since he had nothing to hide but it seems to me, IMHO, this kid has something to hide.
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LOL – Though funny there some truth in this. I have that problem with straight women. They meet me and we click very well, then later down the road they find out and I get the cold shoulder.
This is happened too many times. And I try to make it obvious (rainbow bracelet, etc.), still they don’t always get it.
As for the actor, he’s a cutie. No wonder. And the trailer looks great but is there a subtitled version?
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I guess no one here has ever acted huh?
I work as an assistant to a certain actor and will say that this sort of type casting does happen and it happens all the time.
The client does a really good job in a role and then gets offered many more that are basically the exact same role but if you don’t believe me, think of Topher Grace from THAT 70s SHOW. How many roles since that show has he played a wise cracking smart ass?
Another is Guillermo Diaz for example. How many times have I seen him play a thug Latino gangster? Even in MERCY with him as a male nurse his past was as part of a gang banger neighborhood.
Zac Effron also passed on the remake of FOOTLOOSE because he was asked yet again to play a teenager even though he stood to make quiet a pay day on that property.
An interesting example in the business is that of Ian Somerhalder who was quiet convincing in THE RULES OF ATTRACTION as a gay college student [and fearless in his gay scenes] and for a while he had a hard time shaking off the image but then LOST came around and used that to spring board on to THE VAMPIRE DIARIES where he still plays on his sex appeal to both genders.
In the case of this young man it is already hard because many think of Filipinos as gay or queens PLUS he himself is very good looking with soft features.
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The same fears plague Hollywood in the States with its male actors. Male homosexuality is always wrong, while female homosexuality – or bisexual/lesbian leanings – is OK.