Luke Evans is shocked there aren’t extra homosexual actors performing the type of macho display screen roles which have made him a Hollywood star.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, the Welsh actor shared that he first realised he had damaged by means of considered one of Hollywood’s glass ceilings when he was forged in macho roles together with The Hobbit and the Quick & Livid franchise, and homosexual activist and actor Ian McKellen (Gandalf in Lord of the Rings) advised him, “Ooh take a look at you, you’re going to be a giant butch star!”
Evans mentioned of McKellen’s remark: “He was conscious of the bottom I used to be treading. I simply hoped it might have moved additional than it has.”
Evans is presently filming a TV collection known as Legal, by which he performs a troublesome, straight man, and he was requested if he may consider every other out homosexual actors who can be forged in the identical half? He mentioned not, and added in the identical interview:
He added: “I believed over a decade in the past, you gained’t be by yourself for lengthy. After all there are many homosexual actors, however enjoying the roles I’m enjoying I don’t suppose there’s many.”
