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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a DM article today quoting Kate Winslet about how she knows 4 actors whose agents told them to not talk about their sexuality since it would be a career killer. She’s calling Hollywood homophobic. [/quote]

It’s not that Hollywood is homophobic; it’s straight male audience members who are homophobic. Hollywood knows the audience better than they know themselves. And they know that straight men won’t watch a Bond film helmed by a gay actor.

I know a bunch of guys who would absolutely scoff at such a film. They can’t suspend disbelief. They will derisively call it “virtue signaling.”

Sad, but true. [/quote]

Absolutely agree. Bond movies were made for men specifically. Young men are their largest audience, and they definitely cannot suspend their disbelief in regards to a gay male playing Bond. Women don’t care, but we are not the target audience. [/quote]

It’s interesting because the audience for Bond films has evolved a lot in recent decades. Women watch it more than ever before. But they won’t watch the marathon on TBS. it’s pretty much always men who will sit and watch the same Bond movie for the 15th time on TV.

I don’t have the hard numbers to show proof. But I would bet that The box office numbers are pretty evenly split between men and women. But the syndication rights and values are much more tilted toward men. [/quote]

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