Lucas Wouldn’t Play Ryan Again If “High School Musical” Was Made Today

[Britneylandia]

“Gays should play gay roles just for being gay” It’s so stupid, so dumb. The best actor gets the part. Gay or straight. 

[PokemonSpears]

1 hour ago, VeteranFan86 said:

By the third movie, if not by the second, his character was dating the girl who wrote the songs for their musicals. I don’t think they actually made his character gay. 

according to the director, he would've come out in college 

[SloppyToppyGoddess]

1 hour ago, PokemonSpears said:

according to the director, he would've come out in college 

Oh God 

No he would've gotten married to a woman, have kids and then given a reality TV show.

[Towelney]

1 hour ago, Britneylandia said:

“Gays should play gay roles just for being gay” It’s so stupid, so dumb. The best actor gets the part. Gay or straight. 

Exactly! 

[sutramaya]

5 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

 

I mean, they're actors after all, they should be able to play any kind of role  It's like, they aren't gonna hire a real serial killer to play a serial killer in a movie or a real alien or something if it's gonna be a sci-fi movie 

Remember when Scarlett Johansson withdrawn from her role in the movie Rub & Tug after facing a backlash, mainly from transgender actors, for taking on the role of a transgender man? 

[PokemonSpears]

26 minutes ago, sutramaya said:

Remember when Scarlett Johansson withdrawn from her role in the movie Rub & Tug after facing a backlash, mainly from transgender actors, for taking on the role of a transgender man? 

No, I don't remember, but I know I've heard similar stories in recent years.

And I do understand the point about how on top of everything that gay people and other minorities have to struggle in real life, they have to give the roles of gay characters to straight actors, especially straight, white actors. Like in Mexico there are stories about gay television actors that had to hide their sexuality for many years, to the public, but within the industry, directors and executives knew who was who and they got a lot of bullying and discrimination for years, and then you had straight actors playing the gay from the telenovela and sometimes even getting praise for their acting, and it's like wtf

I think we're still in a time of transition, where there's a lot of issues that still need to be fixed, not just within the entertainment industry, but in our societies, and I do get that when you realize how ****ed up things have been until now, the right thing to do is for people like this HSM actor to kind of step back from those roles and say what he said, in hope of giving the place the minorities deserve from now on. But that feels like a momentary solution to me. If you think about it in the long term, like many years from now, or as many years as we need to evolve as a society to the point where we don't even have to discuss these issues because people have finally seen the light and we're in this utopia where no one gets discriminated due to any reason, how are things supposed to work? "Acting" becomes "you only get to play roles that reflect exactly what you are in real life, physically, mentally, your orientation, your religion your age, etc" ? Not only that defeats the whole purpose of acting, which is the ability to play a role that may have nothing to do with you, to give life to a fictional character that is part of a story, but that would also force everybody to have a tag or label on their forehead describing all their preferences or ideals or any other thing that they identify with, so producers and the audience can determine whether it's ok for them to get the role. Imagine how boring, even for actors themselves, to always have to act just like they are in real life, because that's the politically correct.

Again, I'm aware of the times we're living, in our society, in our everyday lives, but if we see it strictly from the 'entertainment industry' point of view that would be like condemning Christian Bale for getting skinny for a movie or overweight for another one, instead of letting a real skinny guy or a real overweight person play those roles.

[Brat]

Never seen the show either 

[MyLittlePopstar]

I definitely thought he was gay IRL. The only other thing I ever remember seeing him in is MILK as another gay man, it was a smaller part. Hmmmm. 
 

also, it’s kinda annoying and pointless to say this over ten years later... and they ended up making him date Kelsey. Anybody woke pandering is annoying. 

[Spicechinodiva]

@Jordan Miller. It's okay. In the first filmTroy's singing voice was actually Drew Seeley, How that happened I still don't understand how Disney pulled that out. 

 

Zac didn't sing Troy's songs until the sequel. 

 

@Roxxy

[breathe_on_me_toxic]

10 hours ago, Jordan Miller said:

Ok don't judge me, but I've never seen High School Musical. Any of them. 

same. we were just to old back then to be targetgroup

[Slave4Brit88]

Hate this reasoning, the best actor should get the part. Some of my fave gay movies have straight ppl playing the gay roles, I'd rather watch the best acting available then someone given the part to fill a quota. Sexuality shouldn't come into casting at all. I won't get into the controversy with trans casting, I guess it's a bit different but I will say Hilary Swank fkn knocked it out of the park when she played Brandon in Boys Don't Cry, such a brilliant movie. Yet today she would have been hounded into giving up the part like ScarJo and just today Halle Berry.

[OnlyBeyonce]

19 hours ago, Towelney said:

What do you guys think?

if you are an actor you are paid to ACT

[Towelney]

Just now, OnlyBeyonce said:

if you are an actor you are paid to ACT

That gif 

[PickleSpears]

I thought Lucas was gay and everyone knew? 

[britbratt12]

I like Jordan never seen the show but if there was a job he should take it cause I never of heard him before this. His statement sounds like he's trying to kiss the public's ***. Gay actors can play straight roles too. 

[sutramaya]

5 hours ago, britbratt12 said:

I like Jordan never seen the show but if there was a job he should take it cause I never of heard him before this. His statement sounds like he's trying to kiss the public's ***. Gay actors can play straight roles too. 

Neil Patrick Harris in Gone Girl 

[SouthernOreo]

On 7/6/2020 at 3:51 PM, Jordan Miller said:

Ok don't judge me, but I've never seen High School Musical. Any of them. 

Jordan, babe........get your life together and catch up LOL. 

[helloitsme]

Well hed barely have a career then bc he played A gay character in milk too, and Sean penn won the academy award for best actor and hes straight.

but this is kinda dumb. Ryan in hsm was straight. Didnt he fall in love with kelsey?

also, when youre playing teen characters theyre struggling with coming out so its not like they have their sexuality all figured out. **** no ones does these days.