{"id":1728,"date":"2006-02-13T12:06:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T18:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/13\/ian-mckellen-doubts-brokeback-effect-for-gay-actors\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T12:06:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T18:06:31","slug":"ian-mckellen-doubts-brokeback-effect-for-gay-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/13\/1728-ian-mckellen-doubts-brokeback-effect-for-gay-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen doubts &#8216;Brokeback&#8217; effect for gay actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontIM.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> BERLIN (AFP) &#8211; British actor and gay activist Ian McKellen accepted a Golden Bear lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival and said he was still a rare exception as an openly homosexual star. McKellen, 66, said that while the success of the Oscar-nominated gay cowboy movie &#8220;Brokeback Mountain&#8221; might open the door to more pictures on the subject of homosexuality, the industry had rigid ideas about leading men. &#8220;It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she&#8217;s lesbian. It&#8217;s very distressing to me that that should be the case,&#8221; he told a news conference. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20060211\/ennew_afp\/afpentertainmentfilm_060211230237\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AFP) &#8211; British actor and gay activist Ian McKellen accepted a Golden Bear lifetime achievement award at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-rS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}