Thursday 29 December 2011

We impersonate

From an article about the 2010 film Beginners: see trailer below. See also Wikipedia
I think if you’re a gay man who was born in 1925 and whose very first sexual feelings are towards other men, you have to learn an impersonation of a straight man, and he did that for a long time.’’ Heterosexuality wasn’t normal to him “and so he had to figure out the way it looked and play the part.