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You can find in many interviews at the time would question the actors about whether they were afraid of starring in a gay movie, for fear that it may stifle their careers. In the Ang Lee interview I posted above, he even says: “I’m not their manager. I don’t care if this movie dooms the rest of their careers,” he half-jokes. “All I cared about was that they performed for me." So, yes, if there was a palpable danger of having your career doomed by starring in the movie, then a ''sensible'' actor would avoid it. The movie was not expected to be anywhere near the success it turned out to be, so it would have been far too risky a venture for an actor with something to lose. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 19:23, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
 
You can find in many interviews at the time would question the actors about whether they were afraid of starring in a gay movie, for fear that it may stifle their careers. In the Ang Lee interview I posted above, he even says: “I’m not their manager. I don’t care if this movie dooms the rest of their careers,” he half-jokes. “All I cared about was that they performed for me." So, yes, if there was a palpable danger of having your career doomed by starring in the movie, then a ''sensible'' actor would avoid it. The movie was not expected to be anywhere near the success it turned out to be, so it would have been far too risky a venture for an actor with something to lose. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 19:23, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
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:I have added the citation and reinstated the line. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 15:03, 18 October 2008 (EDT)
    
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