Drew Cosgrave. Now how about yours, or are you coward too? :)

That movie “The Next Best Thing” with Madonna was supposed to be a Julia Roberts Vehicle. She looked at the script and bailed, that should have been a signal to him. That movie was horrible. Also, before he did “My Best Friends Wedding, if you look at his IMDB profile, he was doing a movie or so every few years. Ever since My Best Friends Wedding he has been doing several projects a year. It still looks like his career is in a much better place than it was. I would say that Playing a villain in a mainstream picture like Inspector Gaget is better than playing “Sasha” in “Inside Monkey Zetterland. Which was about the level he was on before.

How do you know he was offered anything better after he came out? Maybe he took those roles because it was all he had to choose from.

I don’t like to advocate for anyone to be in the closet…and total ‘she doth protest too much’ douches like Cruise make me vomit…but blaming ONLY the actors for perpetuating the closet is simplistic and unfair.

As for “Gay Hollywood” I love this self hating idiots. They LOVE to pretend that Hollywood is so much more difficult than the real world. I’m sorry, but no gay actor is going to get worse treatment than some guy who comes out as gay while working in a used car dealer’s lot in Sylina Kansas, or a broker in NYC who comes out in that macho culture, or a factory worker in Pittsburgh. They need to get over it. The closet gives us newtered half persons like David Hyde Pierce and Kevin Spacey.

Topher

The solution really is a sufficient number of gay men becoming sucessful enough to break the Hollywood mindset. The industry really is from what I have heard about perception of what they think the public believes, but it often does not test the assumptions. Women can not do this type of movie. Blacks can not do that type of movie. Gays can not be out. It is a surprisingly conservative industry in his set up over social beliefs and money. I do not mean like political social conservatism. I mean in that it will take forever to overcome an entrench belief.

We are asking any actor who comes out to be the trailblazer, and hope they do not lose their career in the process. There is not an easy answer this. I want someone to come out and do the right thing, but I am not going to attack for not having that level of courage either.

If you’re gay and have acting talent, go into the legal profession. Given the odds of anyone making it in what’s left of Hollywood, you’ll make a lot more money, and you won’t have to pay off beards in divorce settlements.

There is much more of the heterosexual boys’ club mentality in the movie biz than the theater biz.

This is how I feel too but what I don’t like about what this guy is encouraging people to stay in the closet. I’m fine with people wanting to wait with coming out – this how I feel about overall but I’m not fine with people encouraging others to stay in the closet. If someone wants to take that chance let them.

The Ian McKellen comparison isn’t exactly fair – out gay European actors tend to be far more successful than their American counterparts because there’s much less prejudice in Europe. There are loads of top British TV & film actors who are (or were) openly gay or bi – Pam St. Clement, Richard Wilson, Miriam Margolyes, Simon Callow, Derek Jacobi, John Barrowman, Russell Tovey, Antony Cotton, Matt Lucas, Nigel Hawthorne, Sue Perkins, Jeremy Sheffield, Gordon Kaye, Steven Fry, Christopher Biggins, Michael Cashman, and more. I even know of gay American actors who’ve moved here because finding work is easier.

frankly, anyone who uses the word frankly is random and definitely not unique….lol lol lol

FRANKLY I FARTED AND THEN I TURNED ON MY COMPUTER AND CALLED MYSELF RANDOM—-

twat blowhard, but yes i agree with you so marry me … lol

FUCK A HOLLYWOOD!!!

People will do anything for a shot at stardom. Many of those things are reprehensible. Lying about your orientation, and expecting others to lie for your as well, is one of those things.

Yet, when Hollyowood does just that–forces queers in the closet, we excuse it.

Like I said before, Al Qeada should have flown their planes into the Hollywood sign; America would have been a better place for it.

I agree;

I think vagueness can be a good marketing strategy, at times..
especially when you’re young..but just don’t pretend to be something you’re not….

This site proves it with all the Anderson Cooper stories. If they let the cat out of the bag sites like this wouldn’t be able to write about them as much.

And yet you continue to blast away at Clay Aiken. Very hypocritical.

And if you’re and A list actor and you come out… yeah, I think it’s probably career suicide.

I’m sure being out is a career disadvantage in Hollywood. Many Hollywood people and even out actors have said it is and said there is casting discrimination. However, I do not buy Rupert’s story that his career fell apart just because he’s out.