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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Richard Armitage after North and South. He seems to just make bad Netflix films occasionally.[/quote]
Great actor. He was in the hobbit, but agree that he’s had terrible roles. [/quote]

He's definitely the leading man type, but there's some evidence he's gay and he won't cop to it or not, so possibly movies don't know what to do with him. [/quote]

He's just come out but it was a not-at-all-well-hidden-secret for a long time. However, if Tom Cruise can play straight characters, so can he.[/quote]

Damn right!

Armitage, and I'm sure other actors around his age and even a bit younger, were likely well aware that being openly gay (apparently he uses queer, I have to note that) would damage your career until quite recently. The big example was Rupert Everett, who absolutely was Next Big Thing-bound but also came out as gay very early--1989--and has said since that it definitely hurt his acting prospects: "In 2009, Everett told British newspaper The Observer that he wished he had never revealed his sexuality, as he feels that it hurt his career and advised younger actors against such candour." I've read other interviews where he said much the same. He worked, for sure, but has said more than once that roles were severely limited and he knew it was due to his being openly gay. It's been over 30 years since he came out but I'd wager that other actors working in the 90s-2000s-2010s, like Armitage, looked at his example and kept private as much as they dared. Especially ones like Armitage who played a lot of straight leading-man types. [/quote]
I thought that the entertainment industry of all places would be more accepting of gay people.[/quote]

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