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Apparently this closeted B+ list mostly movie actor from a franchise that has one installment remaining is taking PR tips from an A+ list mostly movie actor. Lots of PDA with a woman to really try and prove to the world you are straight. No one cares. it's fine to be out of the closet.
Josh Hutcherson
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ReplyDeleteBCoop for the A+ lister
ReplyDeletejosh hutcherson was actually on a layover flight of mine from Salt Lake City to lax. I talked to him for a few minutes and he was nice enough to give me a pic even though my dad couldn't work an iPhone and it's totally blurry :) anyways, he was really nice!
ReplyDeletegay guys usually are
ReplyDelete@ Hayley, i like hearing these type of stories about celebs.
ReplyDeleteIt could be one of the guys from the Divergent franchise - it has one installment left.
ReplyDeleteJ Hutcherson, and sad to read this, to me he was doing fine, yes, he didn't say that he was gay, and in a perfect world there won't be need to say it AT ALL, but he was enough vague about it, not excluding that , MAYBE things could change, in the future, ...sigh...
ReplyDeletelike Ansel Elgort in spite of his long term ballerina girlfriend?
ReplyDeletei know. wierd that he would change doing his thang like he's been doing for years NOW?? sounds bull to me.
ReplyDeleteif it's meant to be Josh i mean...
ReplyDeleteNick Hoult....gay as a party hat.
ReplyDeleteIt may be fine to be out of the closet, but what leading man or actor with leading man aspirations is? None. That's because they know the studios will be reluctant to hire them. International box office is more important than US box office now and so many countries are homophobic. And in US "flyover/red states"?
ReplyDeletei just think of Sir Ian McKellan.. different league though.
ReplyDeleteI might agree with you, but a thing is being in the closet and another thing is to lie AND to beard, I can understand, i think i do, the many different reasons to be in the closets, but i don't approve the bearding. AS i said, he wadoing fine, he said that he is straight, but he kinda of leaved the door open, saying, who knows? But then, fake pda, beard,? Seems a step behind.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3228960/Josh-Hutcherson-packs-PDA-girlfriend-Claudia-Traisac.html
ReplyDeleteIf it's a bearding relationship it's not a very good one! He's been seeing her for the past 2.5 years going pretty much under the radar until the last few months. I think Enty's reaching a bit
ReplyDeleteOr in other words making stuff up to fit some pictures
ReplyDeletei just thought Josh was/is private like Joseph Gordon-Levitt..never really thought much about it past that.
ReplyDeleteIan McKellan was only a stage actor until very late in his career. There are plenty of out London stage actors (Jacobi - though he hid in the closet for decades, Sher, etc.) but in movies? Not so much.
ReplyDeleteMatt Bomer? Neil Patrick Harris? They are nowhere near A list leading man status and probably never will be. Sad but true: coming out hurts a leading man's career.
I had the impression Bradley was more or less out before he hit it big. Which makes his case that much sadder.
Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp
ReplyDelete@Sadie" Matt Bomer? Neil Patrick Harris? They are nowhere near A list leading man status and probably never will be"
ReplyDeleteI might agree with NPH but to me Matt Bomer had the potential, before coming out, to become a male leading man. Anyway, both have came out late in their career, so anyway they kinda of established one before the coming out, so, yeah, the first secured their career.
On the other hand, first, i don't see Hutcherson AS leading ACTOR, and second, how are things supposed to change if nobody does those steps? I read an article by Tom Daley partner, screenwriter, about the closeting in Hollywwod, he said that to him the problem are not the studios, but agents and managers, i don't know if he is right, but how can society get ready if it is not helped to " get ready"?
I'll say - no one cares about Elder Statesmen Of The British Theeahtuh being gay - they practically expect it and look upon it affectionately. But try casting an under-40 hottie as a romantic leading man who is "out" - no way. They'll get culled from those kinds of roles before they can even get sent the script. Why else do you think Richard Armitage and Cooper go to the lengths they do to hide it?
ReplyDeleteRupert Everett complained that once he came out, the roles all dried up.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if Hutcherson's gay (and don't care either - he can't act his way out of a paper bag), but he probably thinks he can become a leading man and I'm sure his agent/manager hopes so too.
Josh Hutcherson will go the way of that Taylor Laughtner kid from Twilight and be completely irrelevant after HG ends. I wouldn't even bother with bearding if I were him.
ReplyDelete@yeahsure " But try casting an under-40 hottie as a romantic leading man who is "out" – no way. "
ReplyDeleteWell, also cause is not like the producers have much choices, don't they? I mean, how many under 40 possible leading men are out?
And let's leave out ( good ) actors like Ben Winshaw, cause they are not romantic leading men material.
Exactly - Whishaw is a fabulous actor but not a romantic leading man so he'll go on to get good parts but not the parts that actors who want to be Brad Pitt will be considered for. Everyone knows that Redmayne is gay, everyone knows Armitage and Lee Pace have been an item for years, everyone knows Cooper is gay and Shaik is a beard, everyone knew Jodie Foster was gay, everyone knows KStew is gay, everyone knows Renner is gay, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Farrell who swings both ways actually prefers men, or that Cumberbatch and Hiddleston are either heavily closeted or bi (Hiddles looks like he'd fuck anything that moves or could further his career).
ReplyDeleteBut what the producers know and what the public know are two different things: it's the public. The studios know that the public still has difficulty accepting an OUT gay actor as a leading man in a hetero romantic role. And in the end, box office rules. The producers have choices, they know perfectly well who is and who isn't. Their concern is what the public knows, and thus, that is the concern of the actors, too.
I thought Ben Wishaw WAS romantic in "Bright Star" --but i see what you're saying in general.
ReplyDeleteBen was more convincing than most romantic leads.
ReplyDeleteOk, i understand this, though maybe the public is more forward than producers think, MAYBE, my point was :how do we know when and if people will be ready to accept queer people to play straight role? To me the only way is to do steps,little by little, i mean, yes be B Cooper in the closet, but has he REALLY to have a new " gf" every two years or so? Once in a while can he stay single? And why didn't J Hutcherson continue his way to act, saying he is straight, but being more vaue about it, even hinting that he MIGHT in the future, who knows, change his idea?
ReplyDeleteIf you feed public bs, public get MORE used to the bs, maybe to help things change you could try-start to feed the public some good, more healthy food? Bite by bite?
P.S with my " producers have no choices" i meant people that are OUT for the public, of course in Hw people know who is gay and who is not.
On that, your guess is as good as mine. There's supposed to be strength in numbers, but actors are not well-known for being willing to sacrifice their career opportunities for a long-term noble goal. As far as the public goes - I really don't know when, if, or why or why not. It's called "acting" - Radcliffe wasn't really a wizard, Hemsworth really isn't a demi-god who can fly . . . I find Whishaw very attractive (I thought his love for the taller and very womanly Romola Garai in "The Hour" quite persuasive but the graphic sex scenes did go to Garai and Dommnic West in that show). I just don't know, but it's clear there are a lot more gay actors out there (including women, I think Chastain and Bullock are gay) than are admitting it and lots of beards out there, so maybe they know something about the industry we don't.
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