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Radio 4,3 mins

Why do straight actors get gay roles?

The Film Programme

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Film and TV critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reflects on the history of straight actors playing gay men in Hollywood films. In new family comedy Ideal Home, Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan play a bickering couple whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of a small child. Image credit: Signature Entertainment

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