Larry King actually did this a couple years ago with an actor from Queer as Folk. Unfortunately the actor, Robert Gant, wasn't out yet, but he answered pretty well, all told.
"KING: What's the hardest part, Robert, for you, about playing a gay person?
GANT: You know, I think at the end of the day, acting is acting. And you know, our lives -- the whole point is that there's no real difference, that we tend to focus on how we're not the same.
And what people are noticing about the show is they're starting to see our similarities. They're starting to see how we're the same. About how people at the end of the day, love the same. They argue the same. They have sex very similarly. And so really as an actor my job is to take my life experiences and to put them into, you know, into the scene that I'm playing.
You know, there was -- when I was having a love scene with -- a romantic scene with Leah Thompson or Lisa Kudrow, kissing them, it is no different than kissing Hal in that I'm not in love with any of these people. I am looking inside of myself and finding those places where I remember being in love and bring that into the scene."
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Date: 2008-12-13 07:25 am (UTC)http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/24/lkl.00.html
"KING: What's the hardest part, Robert, for you, about playing a gay person?
GANT: You know, I think at the end of the day, acting is acting. And you know, our lives -- the whole point is that there's no real difference, that we tend to focus on how we're not the same.
And what people are noticing about the show is they're starting to see our similarities. They're starting to see how we're the same. About how people at the end of the day, love the same. They argue the same. They have sex very similarly. And so really as an actor my job is to take my life experiences and to put them into, you know, into the scene that I'm playing.
You know, there was -- when I was having a love scene with -- a romantic scene with Leah Thompson or Lisa Kudrow, kissing them, it is no different than kissing Hal in that I'm not in love with any of these people. I am looking inside of myself and finding those places where I remember being in love and bring that into the scene."