A blog from The Gays Of Daytime

I'd like to put a blog from The Gays Of Daytime. The original blog is here.

"Danny finds it hard to kiss a boy = Danny Miller is the biggest homophobic bastard asshole who ever roamed this planet and how dare he say this, as a professional actor?"

Much has been made out of a quote from an interview Gay Times had with Danny Miller and Marc Silcock. And as is done so very often, this quote was repeated - including on this website - without providing proper context.

So, we're filling in the holes for you:

Directly from the magazine:
[Opening paragraph]: "It was never going to be easy. You're young actors, playing what you hope will be perceived as a hard-hitting but realistic interpretation of gay life in a Yorkshire village. Then suddenly you've got people getting a little bit obsessed with you, or worse, shouting abuse. So a little trepidation is understandable as Danny Miller and Marc Silcock undertake their first photoshoot together. [...] As well as appearing on the cover of Britain's longest running gay mag - a big enough deal for two straight lads- they're getting ready to shoot their first proper kiss the following day."

What's the reaction been from the public? I heard you'd had people shouting at you?
Danny: You do obviously unfortunately, being in a soap, get the people who can't separate the soap from real life. You have had unfortunate homophobic comments, and that is quite sad because you think from a heterosexual's point of view, "What does it matter to you, if I was gay in real life? What's it got to do with you, it's none of your business." And I think it's given me more perspective to understand how gay men and gay women feel when that kind of thing is shouted at them. But other than that - that's the negative stuff - it's been really positive and everyone's been singing the praises of the storyline.

I know that you're doing a scene tomorrow where you two get together. Is that difficult, given that you both have girlfriends in real life?
D: I don't.

And now comes THE question that led to what has been perceived as a controversial answer from Danny, who is 19- and even though not new to acting, certainly new to the high-profile, on-the-cover-of-a-magazine, take-your-shirt-off-hottie media frenzy that's been going on since the storyline started on EMMERDALE:
How do you prepare for a scene like that? Personally, and not meaning any offence, I wouldn't want to kiss a girl so it must be slightly difficult to have to do something like that? (Editor: You would call me crazy if I went on a big rant now, calling the interviewer misogynistic, wouldn't you? And you'd be right. So what exactly is wrong with the responses that now follow?)
Danny: Yeah, it is, obviously. it's difficult because you're kissing the same sex and you know, you're not attracted to them, you're not a homosexual and you're not attracted to them in that way. So it is hard, yeah, but you realise it's not real, so, it's all for TV and you've got to get on with it.
Marc: For the first time we just had a chat about it. And we had a chat about tomorrow as well. It's just a case, like Danny was saying, it is difficult to kiss a member of the same sex because you're not attracted to them. But you know, it's got to be done. But the only way we can do it is the way we find most comfortable. So the only way of doing that is to sit down and have a chat and just try and make it look as real as possible, we don't want it to just look like it's two straight blokes kissing each other. We want to make it look like it's as real as possible, whilst getting over the difficulties that there are involved in it.


After talking about having their pictures taken involuntarily by people just walking up with their mobile phones (ANNOYING and IRRITATING - they're both human beings, just ASK them), the interview then trails off to have Danny talk at great length about his love for Cheryl Cole (professed before in other interviews) and giving nothing away about what will happen to the characters, minus that their personalities won't change.

See? Much ado about, ultimately, nothing.

I would like to thank to The Gay of Daytime.
When I read some negative reactions to Digital Spy article, I felt sorry for them. They are young and new actors. Let them be themselves.
I think the difficulties are same as actors play roles that they are very different form themselves, but I agree with a point of view that some people pointed out. Most of time, interviewers don't ask gay actors about kissing girls but they do ask straight actors about kissing boys.