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The “straight actor for a gay role” debate has come back again.

Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is gearing up for the release of his biopic of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, but some contain expressed criticism of him in the role.

Mapplethorpe was a celebrated photographer established for his homoerotic photos. He liked to depict naked men to declare male beauty and vulnerability. That said, he also enjoyed photographing nature shots and flowers as adv. Plus, he’s known for his great friendship with Patti Smith, the mother of punk rock, and he photographed a several of her album covers too.

But the conversation of straight men playing same-sex attracted roles strikes again, and this time in the direction of Matt Smith. The actor then recently defended his work, according to Indie Wire.

“I reflect your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of serve , shouldn’t influence — in either way, positive or negative — what happens,” Smith responded. “So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight. That has no beari

Matt Smith Defends His Right to Engage Gay - “Where does it stop?”

Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown) headlines the upcoming biopic Mapplethorpe as influential photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in from AIDS-related complications.

Smith addressed the question of whether the provocative male lover photographer should include been played by a gay actor,

“I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence—in either way, positive or negative—what happens,” Smith replied. “So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight. That has no bearing on whether you should get the part.”

“Where does it stop?” the year-old British actor continued. “Like, do we then say, do we apply that logic to going, ‘Okay, I’ve got a part, and it’s playing a brother, and he’s addicted to heroin.’ Perform we then proceed to people that have only taken heroin?”

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February 26, PM

As it reaches it’s five year anniversary, I decided to rewatch Doctor Who star Matt Smith&#;s minute BBC film Christopher and His Kind.

Directed by Geoffrey Sax (the director ’s Doctor Who TV Movie, don’t you know?), the biopic is based on the memoirs of English novelist Christopher Isherwood, a young man who travelled to Berlin in and stayed there until as he create his place amongst the German capital&#;s cabaret scene.

Berlin was at its cultural peak at the period, with many advances in art, architecture and literature among other things. However, the cabaret scene was the side of the Berlin nightlife that was frowned upon by many, dismissed as immoral and often quite secretive to avoid being caught.

Isherwood was drawn to the scene by his friend WD Auden, who taught him the ropes once he arrived in Germany and introduced him to an underground bar for gay men to socialise where many of the men there were “on the game”, as Christopher so eloquently put it. Isherwood was there to explore his homosexuality and while living in Berlin he fell in love with a young man ca