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Christopher Biggins says there's 'no reason' why 'straight actors cannot play gay roles' after Rebel Wilson weighed in on casting row
Echoing Rebel Wilson 's sentiment that it is 'total nonsense that gay actors should play gay roles,' the actor said performers should be given the opportunity to take on a variety of parts.
Ben Whishaw: The revered stage and film actor has been nominated for, and won, dozens of awards for his depiction of characters including Hamlet, Richard II and Q in James Bond. In Grimsby, which was a failure at the box office, Baron Cohen played a feckless football hooligan called Nobby who has 11 children with his partner Dawn, Wilson's role. In her recent memoir Rebel Rising, Wilson accused the Ali G and Borat actor of pressuring her into doing a nude scene and making her wear clothes that showed her in the most unflattering light.
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