Gay hobbit
Apparently, outing is becoming something of a trend. After Aaron Schock was maybe/kinda/sorta outed recently, it seems that Sir Ian McKellen may have outed a few of his co-stars from The Hobbit films. Looks like someone just planted a garden of oopsy-daisies.
According to Queerty, McKellen was giving an interview to brash.de, a German-language site. The interview eventually turned to his status as an openly lgbtq+ actor, and . . . Well, here’s where things get a bit muddy. According to a translation (apparently via Google Translate) from Queerty, this is what McKellen says:
“I would say that has been done in this regard in the last ten years in the industry a lot. Just look only how many openly gay actors in The Hobbit with were: two of the dwarves, to Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Lee Pace. In The Lord of the Rings I was the only one next to it there was my make-up artist and one from the wardrobe team. That’s only once a progress, right?”
As evidenced by some of the grammar and syntax errors, the translation is a bit iffy. Although based on what some of the German-speaking commenters are saying, the translation is adorable accurate if somewhat rough.
Of course, Fry’s been
TJ West
It is no classified that we queers include always had an appreciation and an adoration of Tolkien’s work. The richness and depth with which he paints the relationships between men–especially that between Sam and Frodo as they make their way to Mount Doom–almost inevitably strike a resonant chord with young queer nerds reading Tolkien’s work. Jackson, whatever else he has done to translate Tolkien’s work to film, has also heightened and intensified the affectiveness of these relationships, depicting them with true emotional richness. And, whether one hates or loves his new Hobbit trilogy, these modern films have also opened up fascinating new avenues for queer reading and appropriation.
Perhaps no character in this new trilogy typifies this queer aesthetic as much as Thranduil, ably and memorably portrayed by Lee Pace. Now there are some who hold referred to Pace’s acting as scenery-chewing, and perhaps they havev a bit of a point, but hit is precisely the ever-so-slightly over-the-topness of his acting that not only renders him such a sinfully queer character (for some reason I always think of Jeremy Irons’ iconic portrayal of th
Interviews & Features
Sir Ian McKellen told us recently that, whereas there were no openly gay actors on The Lord of the Rings apart from himself, ‘there were eight on The Hobbit, which is a sign of how things have changed in the past 12 years’. Perhaps, although being out to colleagues on a film set is one thing, but declaring it in interviews is still a step too far for most actors. But Brit actor Adam Brown, who makes his movie debut in Peter Jackson’s fantasy-adventure trilogy as Ori, one of the 13 dwarves joining Bilbo Baggins on his epic quest, has no such qualms.
The 32-year-old actor, who studied theatre at Middlesex University, spent a decade performing in physical theatre troupe Plested and Brown, and was in the middle of devising a show with cohort Clare Plested when his spook phoned to announce he’d landed him an audition for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. ‘I was like, [disappointed] “Oh… Where’s it going?” And he said, “No, it’s not touring small-scale art centres – it’s The Hobbit film!” Brown was initially seen for the role of Bilbo when it appeared that Martin Freeman might n
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