Comments on: Kevin Spacey in American Beauty

By: Red

Red — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:01:21 +0000

Kevin is bisexual. I too thought he was gay but then I saw him out with women and not just chatting from across the table but uh it looked pretty steamy to me. I would have loved to be in his position later that night.

By: ksbsts

ksbsts — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:13:29 +0000

Is he really gay? That’s awesome then. I wish I meet him

By: robert

robert — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:37:08 +0000

@wannabuyaduck: Don’t know at whom your reference is aimed, but if my comments led you to think I find it difficult to believe a gay/bi actor can
play a straight role, you misunderstand. Of course they can, have, and will, often with more conviction and human qualities than the so-called straight variety he-man types. That was the point. Acting is acting. If you’re not good at it, your sexual orientation ain’t gonna help one way or t’other.

By: WannaBuyADuck

WannaBuyADuck — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:18:49 +0000

Good Goddess. He’s only one of many, many professional actors and actresses who are gay/bi. Some on this post seem surprised that he could play a straight man letching after a young girl. Being gay doesn’t effect one’s ability to play serious straight characters. That’s why we call them actors.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:48:46 +0000

Robert I think I love you…

By: robert

robert — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:42:06 +0000

Gay or not, Kevin Spacey plays a very convincing “dirty old man” leching after his daughter’s best girl friend in the outstanding “American Beauty” movie. Although many people suspected at the time that Kevin was gay, it made not one whit of difference in terms of viewing him as a superb, innovative, character-absorbed actor. Thank God!

By: robert

robert — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:36:34 +0000

Oooooooooh, Kevin! When I was a young man, dinosaurs were roaming the earth, being known as gay in the movie biz, or theatre, or just about any other artistic pursuit was the kiss of death in terms of a career.

Rock Hudson was forced, literally, by his studio to marry. That connubial bliss lasted about five minutes. He had a horrible, self-serving agent. Hollywood knew about Rock, he gave enormous parties at his pool, lots of naked boys. But, you could not have a romantic lead played by a gay man–the public would react in horror–so the machinery of “closeting” “cover up” was very effective. Even the trashy movie magazines of the time never hinted at what they probably knew.

Vito Russo’s groundbreaking book “The Celluloid Closet” was one of the first to document the “who’s who” of the category, and in a sympathetic way. He goes into detail about how gay and lesbian actors were treated by the biz.

The book was made into a documentary, released in 1996 I think, by Rob Epstein and Jerry Friedman with Russo’s blessing and was received by both the gay community and the viewing public at large as important and well done . For a fairly decent bibliography of similar books, go to http://www.dk.librarything.com.

By: J

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:04:00 +0000

Yes, to confirm it, and like others, at risk of being called a liar, when I was a personal assistant to a producer boss of mine and we had a meeting with Kevin Spacey, she brought me along as the ‘young gay boy’ assistant instead of her female assistant because she thought Kevin would like it better.

Then, a few years later, I directed an actress who was roommates with Kevin at school, and said he was open about it way back when.

Kevin’s a gay boy, no doubt, no rumor, just gay.

By: ricciboy

ricciboy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:22:13 +0000

I cannot look at any characters in this film sexually because the movie is too good and affects me emotionally too much

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:09:13 +0000

OMG, Kevin is Gay!!! I love it!!! He still rocks as an actor and I adore his gorgeous furry chest. I love his acting as well. He is so good and can do it all. The fact that he is gay is of no consequence to me and only makes him more wonderful to me.

You Rock Kevin!!