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Stephen Fry has criticised the way straight actors are congratulated for playing gay characters. He questioned why heterosexual male stars are hailed as "brave" when they kiss other men on screen.
The QI host was speaking about the single status of his TV character, solicitor-sleuth Peter Kingdom, in the ITV1 Sunday night drama. He told the Radio Times: "I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen ... Straight actors can play gay people and they're rather congratulated on it.
"People say, 'Ooh, how brave of you'."
But Fry, 50, added that no one says to a gay actor who plays a heterosexual person: "How brave of you to kiss that woman, that must have been very difficult for you."
