OK... let me get this straight (no pun intended). This is a gay-themed movie... with Chris Kattan in it... but Kattan plays a hetero?
Hmm... depending on whether or not Kattan is gay in real life (I've heard opinions yes and no) this is either deliberate bad casting (gay actor as non-gay part) or a waste of his acting talent (if he is straight, he plays "queer" very convincingly).
no really, regardless of if hes gay or not, he appears gay in almost everything he does...which isn't much.
shareim watching a biography of SNL on A&E and he was saying how mango was a good thing and a bad thing.. he said people think hes gay.. it sounded like he was denying it but at the same time he never actually said "i'm not gay"..but from the interview it seems he is not gay
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wasn't he linked to that woman in Legally Blonde (not the main character, the blonde who she became friends with in the salon), the one who was in Best in Show?
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Chris Kattan is not gay. He's got a girlfriend, that should at least clear that up. I've also notice almost everything he takes on are gay roles, I admire him for being comfortable enough in his own sexuality to be able to take on gay role after gay role and allow gay jokes to be made about him. It's this big controversy that's got me to be such a big fan of his. Not to mention how well he can play anything thrown at him, as you said he does make a very convincing homosexual.
shareChris Kattan is 100% heterosexual. As an actor you sometimes may have to play those diverse parts, but yes, he is certainly straight.
shareto add on, chris kattan, if you haven't noticed due to the rabid popularity of Mango and co., also plays straight characters quite well. i.e.--everything else.
shareMaybe he wanted to play a straight guy? I don't know whether he is gay or not (I've heard most likely not), but he does do a very good "Mango" on SNL. :-)
shareDan Futterman has made a whole career of it. (Oh wait, he was also the heterosexual son in The Birdcage! )
That is the Hollywood rule, you can play gay all you want, it's actually being gay that's a no-no for leading men, whether the role is straight or gay (strangely, especially if it's gay). So Kattan's career is all right. Whew!
Actually, this movie breaks all the rules. REAL gay men are actually playing gay characters. Of course in a larger budget, mainstream film, this would be unheard of.
P.S. Casting a gay actor in a non-gay role is necessarily "bad casting." Montgomery Clift is wonderful as the young man mesmerized by Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun. In fact he is much more convincing as a heterosexual than Jason Alexander was in Love! Valour! Compassion! (in a role that really NEEDED to be played by a gay man).
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