5 Essential Tips For Straight Actors Playing Gay Characters

5 Essential Tips For Straight Actors Playing Gay Characters
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 16: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Bill Hader visits at SiriusXM Studios on September 16, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 16: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Bill Hader visits at SiriusXM Studios on September 16, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

Or at least, he’s good at playing gay, as far as straight actors go. While making the rounds to promote his well-received turn in the new movie, The Skeleton Twins, Hader has repeatedly been asked not only about his performance as Milo, a gay man whose failed acting career prompts a suicide attempt, but also about comparisons between Milo and Stefon, the flamboyant travel “expert” he made virally popular on Saturday Night Live. And justifiably so, these comparisons have surprised him.

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