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Actors Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey popped into a gay bar to do some preparing for their respective roles in the big screen adaptation of Steve McVicker’s novel, I Love You Phillip Morris, in which they’ll play gay lovers. [Stuff]
If Jim Carey is evangeical I can see why he’s so intuititvely distasteful; It’ not so amazing to think that he would be dumb enough to think that he could learn something in a gay bar.
McGregor showed some good skin in the “Picture Bride”, of course it looked best after they skinned him,and made him into a book.
I’m sure he’s been in a gay bar before. Carey may not have been in a bar before at all. Church must be where he gets that offensive smile. The bottom line with evangelicals is making money,so they probably let him, as long as he swore off sexa nd promised to give a bundle to some shyster.
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R1 I went to your self-promoted site and found not one reference that supported the claim that Carrey is an evangelical, whatever that means. (I assume there are at least a few “liberal” evengelicals.) I did a search in your search box on Carrey and came up with nothing. Are you just promoting your blog.
I have never heard anything anti-gay about Jim Carrey.
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my blog is my signature comment on every post i make, i never suggested i blogged about jim carrey. i had heard he became a born again, this could be inaccurate but thats why i brought it up here to see what others had to say.
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I don’t mind watching them while kissing each other.They should tongue!
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There have been a number of accusations of homophobic overtones in Jim Carrey’s movies. He really isn’t a candidate for a GLAAD Media Award. But times change and people do too.
Concerning comment 2: “I thought gays controlled Hollywood? Why then do all the plum roles go to straight actors?”
Not many people get to be movie stars. For every star there are probably over 1,000 wannabes. So producers and investors can be very selective, and they do not want to take risks. So if there is a movie being cast, they will pick the actor who is non-controversial over the one that might lead to people staying away. I cannot think of a single instance of a person who came out and became a star. In recent years a few stars have come out and not had there careers end. Very few. Ian McKellan comes to mind. But they don’t play straight.
The same thing works in politics.
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To elaborate a bit on GoodBuddy’s points about why certain actors are chosen to play certain parts – I agree with everything he said and add: Gay actors, out or not, don’t want to be typecast as Gay if they take a Gay but an indisputably straight person does not have the problem of taking a Gay role occasionally (assuming their career is so insignificant or so strong, that it doesn’t matter). Also the closeted Gay actor stays away from roles which may draw attention to the fact he/she doesn’t have an opposite sex partner/spouse.
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jim carrey is an evangelical, im confused why a born again goes into a gay bar
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