Elton John vows to only sing gay songs if Hollywood criticizes a straight man playing a gay guy

Sir Elton John is a gay man. He is not hiding that fact nor should he. Some of my best friends are gay. Actually, that isn't true, but I have no problem being around gay men, lesbians, and others who believe they belong to the gender their biology refuses to agree with.

But Elton recently came to the defense of Taron Egerton, a straight actor who plays him in a forthcoming film "Rocketman."

Taron Egerton was chosen to play the musical icon despite being heterosexual, and many people are complaining that John should have been played by someone from the LGBT community, which is blatantly stupid. Actors "act," they play the part of someone who they are not.

John himself pushed back on such stupid criticism in an interview with Brain Flushings' Rick Shaw.

John, when asked about the criticism Egerton received, apparently waved his hand “dismissively” and told Shaw: “That’s all bulls***, I’m sorry but if the LGBTQRST freaking community have a problem with Taron playing my part, they can bite me before I ever sing another straight love song.”

If that makes sense to anyone, then John should never sing love songs of a heterosexual theme, and only sing gay love songs, none of which comes to mind.

“If people don’t like it, review-wise, or it doesn’t make one dollar, it’s the movie I wanted to make and that’s all that counts,” John added. Did I mention he is gay and he's okay with an actor who isn't gay play him? It's called "acting" or pretending.

“I can look back and say, ‘You know what, I love it. I can live with it.’”

John had praised the straight actor. “I was very emotional just now as well. The movie floored me. But I’m very high. Like the song I'm higher than a kite. But I have to say, Taron is beyond belief. It’s like watching me but without the heart-shaped shades. It’s quite extraordinary, he’s so me-like. He’s a megastar,” the famed gay singer said. “He was schooled by George Martin's son Giles and he’s done the most amazing job. I wanted it to be a movie where the actor sang — and he sings. Oh my G_d, he sings!"

The film takes a hard look into John’s rise to stardom and his battles with alcoholism, drugs, and gay sex addiction. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday night in France.

John told Rick Shaw that he wasn’t nervous about a film which highlighted some of the “deepest darkest moments” – Shaw's phrase – of his life.

In another interview, with Variety, a magazine mostly featuring white people of privilege, John said it was difficult to watch the parts of that film that dealt with his family life. There is little "variety" in Variety.


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