Is matt smith gay

The “straight actor for a gay role” debate has approach back again.

Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is gearing up for the release of his biopic of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, but some have expressed criticism of him in the role.

Mapplethorpe was a noted photographer known for his homoerotic photos. He liked to depict naked men to express male beauty and vulnerability. That said, he also enjoyed photographing nature shots and flowers as adv. Plus, he’s established for his amazing friendship with Patti Smith, the mother of punk rock, and he photographed a few of her album covers too.

But the conversation of straight men playing gay roles strikes again, and this time in the direction of Matt Smith. The actor then recently defended his serve , according to Indie Wire.

“I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence — in either way, positive or negative — what happens,” Smith responded. “So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or vertical. That has no beari

Matt Smith Defends His Right to Play Gay - “Where does it stop?”

Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown) headlines the upcoming biopic Mapplethorpe as powerful photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in from AIDS-related complications.

Smith addressed the question of whether the provocative gay photographer should possess been played by a male lover actor,

“I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence—in either way, positive or negative—what happens,” Smith replied. “So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or direct. That has no bearing on whether you should get the part.”

“Where does it stop?” the year-old British actor continued. “Like, do we then say, undertake we apply that logic to going, ‘Okay, I’ve got a part, and it’s playing a brother, and he’s addicted to heroin.’ Do we then proceed to people that have only taken heroin?”

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February 26, PM

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I am an artist who works mainly with craft-based media, often in relation to collections and archives. My practice often explores marginalised, and particularly LGBTQ+ lives and how they own been included or excluded from museum interpretation.

Previous projects have included Queering the Museum which explored how Birmingham Museum could incorporate queer lives into its displays. Interventions included pairing up historic ceramic bears with a taxidermy otter. When you realise that in gay bars bears are large hairy queer men and otters their slimmer counterparts, then these four objects become a furry gay disco, and the museum a more fun place to be. While this may appear irreverent, I think it sheds light on the role of curators in selecting how objects are combined to tell particular narratives, and how this privileges some people over others.

Closer to Huddersfield, I worked with the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds to explore how oral histories from the Brighton Ourstory Archive could be embedded in everyday