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| Stewart in 2018 (Photo by Georges Biard) |
Some of the most powerful performances have been by actors who are quite different from the characters they’ve portrayed.
In the words of Kristen Stewart, it therefore might be a “slippery slope” to only allow gay actors to portray gay characters. Would this then mean that only straight actors can portray straight characters? And so on...
Stewart adds that caring about the character is what’s important. To think that a straight person cannot adequately care about a gay person, or that a gay person cannot adequately care about a straight person seems quite limiting. It might even be stereotypic to lock actors so tightly into their everyday identities.
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