Nothing wrong with gay actors playing straight roles, says Christopher Biggins

ACTOR Christopher Biggins has said there is no reason why gay actors should not play straight roles.

He was commenting on remarks by American actor Stanley Tucci during an interview when he said that straight actors should be free to take on gay roles.

He told GB News: “He’s right! The whole point of acting, he says, is to pretend and that’s exactly what acting is all about.”

Asked by Eamonn Holmes if he had ever had to pretend to be straight, he said: “Yes, I played the sex-crazed vicar in Poldark!

“It was fantastic, I loved it, making love to Julie Dawn Cole’s feet. It was wonderful, she went to Dr Scholl’s every day during rehearsals and then she was carried on to the set at Pebble Mill and placed on the bed and the opening scene was her foot and my tongue coming between her two toes, or all of her toes.

“Oh god, that was pretending, I can assure you, in lots of ways.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster on GB News, he added: “There’s no other point and then people say, ‘oh, you have to be gay to play a gay man, if you’re playing a blind person the actor should be blind. It’s all ridiculous.

“That’s why we go to drama school to learn how to do all these things and it’s just, that’s it. That’s what it’s all about.

“Look at the stars that we’ve created over the years. Betty Davis was always Betty Davis, but she did everything, she played any part that she could do and was offered.”