“I think you should be able to play any role that you want,” Rebel Wilson tells BBC Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs.”
In an interview with the BBC Radio 4 show “Desert Island Discs,” actress Rebel Wilson admitted she thinks the idea that “only straight actors can play straight roles and gay actors can play gay roles” is “total nonsense.”
“I think you should be able to play any role that you want,” the queer actress said. “But I always think in comedy, your job is to always kind of flirt with that line of what’s acceptable. Sometimes you do step over it, but at the end of the day you are trying to entertain people.”
Always choosing to be comedically safe, she added, isn’t a recipe for entertainment.
