The full interview is here; excerpts are below.
Details: So I understand that you sometimes work with actors who feel compelled to sound "less gay."
Bob Corff: Well, often they are sent by a manager or a teacher—it’s so interesting, because I can tell what it is. Sometimes they come in and it takes them a lesson or two before they finally admit why they’re here. Which I knew the first second that they talked. But sometimes they’ll just come right in and say, "Somebody said I sound gay." And sometimes they are married and straight but they sound gay, and that’s not gonna work for being a leading man in Hollywood at this time.
DT: And so the manager will send them your way, in a sense, to "fix" that?
BC: Yeah, they say, "I think that’s what’s holding you back; I don’t think that is serving you in getting the parts that you want to get."
DT: What are you hearing that sends off that signal?
BC: Okay, well, let me start by telling you what it is that sounds "straight." Straight actually turns out to be the perfect word to describe what straight guys do. It’s very straight—it has no curlicues, it has no frills or any kind of melodic turns. So they say, "Hi. How are you?" It’s simple, and the lines are very straight, instead of "Hi, how are yOOuu?" You know, women are much more melodic—their voices go up and they go down, and they even move their mouths more. There’s a lot more animation. A straight guy just goes, "Hey—this is as much energy and animation as I’m putting out for this thing."
DT: Have you ever had an actor who just could not lose the gay sound?
BC: Nobody who’s ever worked at it has not been able to do much, much better. I’ve had people who’ve just bailed before they were finished because it was too uncomfortable.
DT: During your years as an actor you shared camera time with Rock Hudson in an episode of the 1970s TV crime show McMillan & Wife.
BC: Rock Hudson was the most masculine man I’d ever seen. People were shocked when word came out that he was gay, but everybody in show business knew he was gay, even then. But this was a man’s man. The episode that we did took place in Scotland, so we were all wearing kilts. You put a bunch of guys in dresses for a week and there’s gonna be a moment where you’ll kind of do a little something—he never did
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As I’ve always said “Fuck the hets and their gender protocol bullshit” and fuck this asshole who indirectly encourages gay folk to sell out their true nature to sound more like a typical moronic straight male. It’s called de-evolution numbnuts, avoid it. We don’t want to go back to where they’re still hung up at.
We live in a het dominated society that is so stupid they regard you as effeminate if you have a good vocabulary. Not a lisp, or flamboyant gestures….just using BIG WORDS…….wow. Just one of many examples I could list of how the het male concept of manhood is entirely based on insecurity. Good luck with that boys. I can see it’s done wonders so far.
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and
the wisdom to know the difference.
If you can fool America and deposit a single actor’s check, do it. And if you have the chance to play an SVU faggot pedophile menace, show ’em what we’re all about.