Harry styles

I had no idea so many reviews were already out. And they reflect pretty much what I expect of the film: humorless, shallow, cliche, “polite”, middling acting, too much focus on hetero dynamics and homo sex and not much exploration of queer-dom or homo passions beyond sex or homo friendship, affections, compassion, love, investment, commitment. Watered-down, safe stuff for white women.
I'm kinda of the opinion that you're not a proper Pop star til you've made some awful movies :joy:

Madonna
Elvis
Prince
The Beatles
Michael Jackson
Mariah
Britney
Bowie
Whitney

...please...MORE bad movies from pop stars please :joy:
 
My main issue is I don’t think he should have been cast to play a gay character. We have enough actual queer actors in 2022, we don’t need cis straight white men playing gay anymore. And yes I know he dodges questions about his sexual orientation, but that doesn’t make him queer. Just my opinion obviously.
 
If he isn't gay/bi and wanted to keep playing on the idea that he might be, actually playing a gay character unconvincingly and having to talk about gay characters in cinema in loads and loads of interviews probably wasn't the smartest idea in retrospect.
 
I'm kinda of the opinion that you're not a proper Pop star til you've made some awful movies :joy:

Madonna
Elvis
Prince
The Beatles
Michael Jackson
Mariah
Britney
Bowie
Whitney

...please...MORE bad movies from pop stars please :joy:
i don’t think that’s very funny because there are so many talented actors out there desperately trying to make it while these popstars use nepotism to play actor. I think that’s very sad honestly!
 
i don’t think that’s very funny because there are so many talented actors out there desperately trying to make it while these popstars use nepotism to play actor. I think that’s very sad honestly!
Unfortunately the nepotism doesn't begin or end with popstars. Most of the actors who make it big do so because of nepotism anyway.

I just wish Harry would stop getting acting gigs because he seems to suck at it.
 
My main issue is I don’t think he should have been cast to play a gay character. We have enough actual queer actors in 2022, we don’t need cis straight white men playing gay anymore. And yes I know he dodges questions about his sexual orientation, but that doesn’t make him queer. Just my opinion obviously.
Take it up with the gay director that casted him then...?
 
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Being able to act, sing, dance was really big back in the day. Being a “triple treat” really allowed some people to find a footing when they wouldn’t have been given much of a chance otherwise. And I’m not here for telling people to not take their careers where they wish to take them. But there’s no doubt a certain privilege when you already are a big pop star and have a substantial fan base. You’re gonna be given opportunities even if your acting ability doesn’t warrant those opportunities.

I’m kinda glad an unabashedly “queer” male actor didn’t get that role and that Styles is the centerpiece for the movie’s promo. This seems to be another sanitized, solemn, made mostly for the straight/hetero-leaning white women type of “gay movie” and another one that seems too centered on hetero relationships and doesn’t investigate queer-dom or homo dynamics or homo love beyond sex. Rather Styles gets cast in something like that than a project with actual potential or one that could be groundbreaking or must-see.
 
Demanding someone to come out of the closet and slap a label on themselves is the most hypocritical thing an lgbtq+ person can do.

Ive said this example like 10+ times on this thread:

Elton John, one of the most known, biggest gay icons in the world, didnt come out as gay until about 25 years into his career, he even married a woman, and denied being gay while dressed extremely flamboyant, waaay more than pretty much all out of the closet artists of the time.

By the logic some of you apply to Harry, Sir Elton John, was a queerbaiter for 25 years.


If Harry doesnt want to label himself as anything, its his right, and any lgbtq person here should know that
 
My main issue is I don’t think he should have been cast to play a gay character. We have enough actual queer actors in 2022, we don’t need cis straight white men playing gay anymore. And yes I know he dodges questions about his sexual orientation, but that doesn’t make him queer. Just my opinion obviously.
Disagree with this. An actor should get a role if the actor can convincingly portray the character physically and emotionally. An actor's sexuality, gender, religion, political/social leanings should not affect their selection. Only in some specific cases ethnicity/race may be considered. Although I agree that lgbtq actors have been discriminated in the past and some even now, but things are changing.

In Harry’s case however, I think he's not a good actor. Give him any role, there will be many others who will do that far better than him. Didn’t even like him in Dunkirk. Seems like he's only there to sell the movie to his fans.