[ SECRET POST #6847 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6847 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Reading Rainbow (the reboot) with Mychal Threets]



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[Devil May Cry anime]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 47 secrets from Secret Submission Post #978.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

Do you ever watch a straight actor playing a character who is non-straight and think, "No, sorry, I'm just not buying it"?

For the record, I'm not asking so that I can be like, "See, it's totally fine that queer actors struggle to get cast for straight roles!" or anything like that. I'm asking because I haven't seen this question asked before, and I feel like it's weird that I haven't seen it asked before.

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

No, but my assessments vs. what other people say has taught me that I couldn't recognize any kind of bad acting to save my life.

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[dani_phantasma]

Mmm i dunno about that in particular I do remember if anything hearing a creator say they see a character as straight and just going "Mmm not buying it"

I know that sounds awful lol. but yeah . Usually cases where a conservative type of creator accidentally writes something radiating with queer energy and expects us to believe its all totally hetero (I'm looking at you Butch Hartman).

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

I can't recall any examples off the top of my head, but I think it'd be difficult to put all the blame on the actor for that even if this scenario happened? Like someone else is directing them, someone else wrote the script, there were more hands in creating this non-believable character than the actor portraying them.

This also applies in reverse for queer actors. Some director looked at their takes and decided that was good enough, so it went through.

If someone on their own comes in with outside knowledge that the actor in question is strictly gay or strictly lesbian and they can't suspend their own disbelief, or vice versa, that's a different thing and on their end.

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

I sincerely hope people don't ask that, but tbh I've seen more of the opposite which is one hell of a lot more of a problem.
Given that I have, but being a fan of the silver screen, things like this do come up.

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

Not that I can ever remember.

I have looked at a lot of actors portraying a romance and thought “those two people are clearly not actually into each other”. Usually straight romances because they’re so much more common onscreen. But I don’t think it has to do with the actors’ real life sexualities. In fact, I once had this with two actors who are married IRL.

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. He did not look especially thrilled to be kissing another man and it made what should have been a romantic scene...well, not so much.

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly? (not gay/bi/pan, ace here)

Seen plenty of Asian (Korean, Japanese, Chinese) dramas where the actors couldn't do a romance scene to save themselves. Straight actors doing straight scenes I mean.

There's cultural expectation and then there's bad actors. Good actors expose themselves to the situation or even watch porn/erotica to try and understand how they should do what they're about to do. One can't begin to try to guess an actor's sexual orientation based on how they act. Because there are many more factors at play.

Re: Question for gay/bi/pan Fandom Secreters, Re: secret 7

[(Anonymous)]

Not really, sometimes the character doesn't ring true or the romance isn't believable, but it isn't just straight actors, it's the storyline, dialogue, direction, etc... and actors of any sexuality can lack chemistry.