Kate Winslet says many actors still hide their homosexuality

Actress Kate Winslet -

Kate Winslet says it: in 2021, many actors still hide their homosexuality for fear of no longer being able to be cast for roles of heterosexual characters.

"I'm not telling you how many young actors I know - some famous, others just starting out - who are terrified of their sexual orientation being revealed because that would be a barrier to getting straight roles. », Assured the actress to the

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The star of the new HBO series

then gave the example of a "very famous" actor whose new agent would have told him: "I understand that you are bisexual.

I wouldn't flaunt it (in your place).

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An aberration

For Kate Winslet, the situation is particularly complicated for these actors because the idea that a gay man cannot play a heterosexual character remains firmly established in Hollywood.

“It should be illegal.

You can't imagine how widespread this is.

And you can bring that back to the question of whether gay roles should be played by gay actors.

Because the actors are not, in many cases, chosen for personal reasons ”, she decided.

Recently, Kate Winslet faced criticism for playing a lesbian character alongside Saoirse Ronan in

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