Luke Evans
believes his sexuality has never held him back in his career.
The Beauty
and the Beast star said since coming out 15 years ago hasn’t negatively
affected his career.
And that’s
the way things should be, according to Evans.
‘Talent,
success, what you do in your personal life – I don’t see how one should have an
effect on the other,’ the Welsh actor told Jackal
Magazine.
In the candid
interview, Evans reveals his sexuality wasn’t an issue as a stage actor in the
West End.
When asked if
Hollywood could cope with a gay action hero, Evans is unsure.
He responded:
‘That question is difficult to answer.
‘I don’t
think about it [and] I don’t feel they’re connected.
‘I don’t
think I’d be in this business if I felt that I was not being employed because
of who I am in my personal life.’
The Clash of
the Titans star rarely shares information about his private life.
‘I try to
keep my personal life and my private life separate,’ he said in the interview.
‘Not for any
reason other than there’s a clue in the title – it’s private.
As an actor
you have to keep some sort of enigma and mystery. There’s a dignity to keeping
private.
‘I’m trying
to keep a bit of dignity to my private life and to protect the people in my
life.
‘It’s the
choice I’ve made,’ he also said.
Gay
controversy: Beauty and the Beast
Evans plays
Gaston in new remake of Disney movie Beauty
and the Beast.
The
movie caused controversy, after it was revealed Gaston’s sidekick LeFou was gay.
In an
interview with the Guardian last year, Evans said: ‘I don’t blast it from
the rooftops because I’m a very private person.
‘And it
doesn’t affect anything.
‘But it’s
life. This is who I am as Luke,’ he said.
The film
features a scene with two male characters dancing in the ballroom together, as
well as an excited male character in drag.
The movie
caused an uproar in infamously anti-gay countries like Russia and Malaysia,
with calls to ban the gay-friendly movie.
Watch the trailer:
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