Baftas: Double Whammy

Independent.

Oh come on, surely everyone knows by now if a straight actor plays a queer they get a gong.

It's the law!

The Danish Girl: The Straight Man

For years, I was accommodating when it came to my sexuality. I didn’t feel particularly gay, but I was half-pretty and boyish, and a lot of gay people seemed to have very influential positions in the theatre. So I went along with it, up to a point. And I liked the attention. Any port in a storm, as they say. Quite soon this affected the parts I got. I graduated from restoration fops to actual gay people. To date, I have pretended to be about 11 different gay men and one gay woman, essentially for financial gain. Some of the men were really straight, but I played them gay, because eventually I couldn’t help it. I could probably have paid for half of a quite modest central London one-bedroom flat on the proceeds of my work as a homosexual impersonator. Well, good for me. It’s been marvellous.

I suppose if there’s a point to any of this, it’s that you can play around with notions of your identity, you can impersonate other people and it can be fun, but the moment you start to suggest that your actual identity is up for grabs — well that’s something else entirely. If it’s simply that the media exposure is allowing previously marginalised people to come out of the shadows and discuss something without shame, then that’s great. Bring it on. The fact that it’s fashionable doesn’t necessarily make it worthless...

Tom Hollander writes for The Spectator.

He takes as his starting point the reaction to Eddie Redmayne playing a trans woman in The Danish Girl.

He'll probably get another Oscar for it.

Eddie Redmayne: Hotter

Daily Telegraph.

I would.

Eddie Redmayne: Gay?

Is it easier to film gay rather than straight sex scenes, I ask. Redmayne, who is straight, has been cast in enough gay roles to make “Eddie Redmayne gay?” the second most popular Google search term for him. “No,” he says. “I mean, always, always embarrassing.” Gay, straight, incestuous, whatever? “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Always awkward. Just imagine you had to do one. That’s exactly it! That is what it is. It’s not like [actors] know what we’re doing more.” 

Eddie Redmayne profiled in The Times. 
At the time of typing it's third - after "Eddie Redmayne girlfriend".
While Googling Eddie I stumbled on a website called gay-or-straight.com.
Not sure how reliable it is as they've spelt Tom Daley's surname wrong.
"Tom Daly" though is off the Gay-o-meter scale, apparently.
I know - who knew!?