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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 14, 2013, 10:27:31 am ---So I heard and read that Charlie Hunnam has dropped out of playing Christian Gray (as in "Fifty Shades of"). I also hear that some book fans want Matt Bomer to play the role. Since, if I understand correctly, the book is basically soft-core hetero porn, seems to me it would be really something to have an openly gay actor play the male lead.
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I agree! That would open some new doors. That alone -- and I really do mean that alone -- would make me root for the movie. Not see it, probably, but root for it.
--- Quote ---Or maybe the fans who want him for the role live in caves and don't know he's gay? ???
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Possibly, though hard to believe in this day and age that anyone interested enough in popular culture to care about a fairly obscure actor being cast in a movie that hasn't even started production yet would not know something like that.
oilgun:
I'm kind of glad that Charlie Hunnam backed out/got fired despite the fact that his involvement had me interested in the project. Apparently Alexander Skaarsgard (Yum) and Jamie Dornan (double yum!) are the frontrunners to replace him.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/15/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-crisis-new-lead-actor
Jeff Wrangler:
(Re: Matt Bomer possibly playing Christian Gray)
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 15, 2013, 10:59:15 pm ---Possibly, though hard to believe in this day and age that anyone interested enough in popular culture to care about a fairly obscure actor being cast in a movie that hasn't even started production yet would not know something like that.
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Yes, it does seem difficult to believe, but I suppose fans of that TV show he's in--which I've never watched--wherein, I gather, he plays a flaming hetero ;) might conceivably not know. He played a flaming hetero stripper in Magic Mike.
I wonder how "obscure" he is? Granted, he's not Brad Pitt or Matt Damon, but I really don't know. ???
oilgun:
Matt Bomer would be a terrible choice. He's handsome and all, but he's not very charismatic and lacks that dangerous bad-boy appeal that I feel the role requires. Remember Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 Weeks? Now that was good casting. IMO Matt was the weakest character in Magic Mike despite Alex Pettyfer's stunned deer in the headlights performance.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 15, 2013, 10:59:15 pm ---Possibly, though hard to believe in this day and age that anyone interested enough in popular culture to care about a fairly obscure actor being cast in a movie that hasn't even started production yet would not know something like that.
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--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 16, 2013, 11:43:35 am ---(Re: Matt Bomer possibly playing Christian Gray)
Yes, it does seem difficult to believe, but I suppose fans of that TV show he's in--which I've never watched--wherein, I gather, he plays a flaming hetero ;) might conceivably not know. He played a flaming hetero stripper in Magic Mike.
I wonder how "obscure" he is? Granted, he's not Brad Pitt or Matt Damon, but I really don't know. ???
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The only thing I've ever seen him in is the TV show Jeff mentioned (White Collar, which I like btw).
And if it weren't for BetterMost, I wouldn't know he's gay.
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