Gay actors fear coming out will kill their careers, says Kate Winslet – The Times
Gay actors in Hollywood hide their sexuality amid a climate of “fear” that they will not be cast in straight roles, according to the Oscar winner Kate Winslet.
The Titanic star knows “at least four actors” who have not come out because they believe it would kill their career. She attacked the “judgment, discrimination and homophobia” in the film industry and said LGBT people in Hollywood needed a #MeToo-style movement.
“I cannot tell you the number of young actors I know — some well known, some starting out — who are terrified their sexuality will be revealed and that it will stand in the way of their being cast in straight roles,” Winslet, 45, tells today’s Culture magazine.
Colin Firth in the 1984 period drama Another Country with Rupert Everett, who came out five years later
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