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Jennifer Lopez and Armie Hammer are set to star alongside each other in ‘Shotgun Wedding’.



Jennifer Lopez holding a dog

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Jennifer Lopez

The ‘Second Act’ star and ‘Call Me By Your Name’ actor will play couple Darcy and Tom in the upcoming comedy.

‘Pitch Perfect’ director Jason Moore is helming the movie, with Mark Hammer and Liz Meriwether on script duties.

As per Deadline, Ryan Reynolds has received an executive producer credit.

The plot follows the pair as they gather their lovable but very opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding just as the couple begin to get cold feet. And if that wasn’t enough of a threat to the celebration, suddenly everyone’s lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage.

Gallery: Playing it straight! Gay actors who have played acclaimed heterosexual roles (BANG Showbiz)

Playing it straight!


A good actor is able to make their audience believe that they are somebody completely different from what they are like in real life, to convince you of the story you see on screen. Some performers can even act out convincing romances with co-stars even though their own sexuality is different. Here are 10 gay stars who played straight characters in films and television shows…


Matt Bomer


Matt Bomer has played many heterosexual roles over his acting career, including con-artist Neal Caffrey, who has romantic links with Kate Moreau, Alex Hunter and Sara Ellis in the crime drama ‘White Collar’. The actor came out as gay in 2012 when he thanked his partner, publicist Simon Halls, and his three children during an acceptance speech at the Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards. He is also heavily involved in charities that help with research, education, and medical care for people suffering from HIV and AIDS.


Sir Ian McKellen


Sir Ian McKellen is a champion for LGBTQ+ rights whilst off-camera but in films, he has played numerous straight roles, including Gandalf in ‘The Lord of The Rings’ and Magneto in the ‘X-Men’ franchise. He came out back in 1988 during a programme on BBC Radio One when Section 28 was being considered by the British Parliament. Section 28 proposed prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality, which would have further damaged the treatment of gay people in the UK.


Neil Patrick Harris


Neil Patrick Harris played the antithesis of his real self for almost a decade when he played womaniser Barney Stinson between 2005 and 2014 in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and became famous across the globe for this character. In his private life, the actor is openly homosexual and married his partner David Burtka in 2014. The couple also have two twin children, Gideon and Harper, born in 2010.


Ellen Page


In 2006, Ellen Page played the lead role in the coming-of-age film ‘Juno’. Juno is a heterosexual and pregnant high school student, who must come to terms with her unplanned pregnancy and rapidly changing life. Page’s reality is quite different as the actress publicly revealed she was a lesbian in 2014 at the Time to Thrive conference in Las Vegas and later married Emma Portner in 2018. Page raises money for LGBTQ+ charities, speaks up about LGBTQ+ issues, and uses her status to call out, question, and challenge homophobia.


Jodie Foster


Jodie Foster has won Oscars for her portrayal of heterosexual female characters such as FBI agent Clarice Starling in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ and is one of the most acclaimed actresses in Hollywood. There had been rumours she was gay since 2007, and her close friends and family knew she was a lesbian but it was not until her very public announcement at the 2013 Golden Globes that the star’s sexuality was confirmed. She said: “Seriously, I hope that you’re not disappointed that there won’t be a big-coming-out speech tonight, because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age.”


Wentworth Miller


Wentworth Miller became famous in 2005 with his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox television series ‘Prison Break’. The actor keeps his personal life private, but he came out in 2013 in an open letter on the GLAAD website. In his letter he turned down the opportunity to be honoured at the St Petersburg International Film Festival, writing: “As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.”


Jane Lynch


Actress Jayne Lynch has played many heterosexual roles over her acting career, including narcissistic cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester in the award-winning musical drama ‘Glee. She even won eight awards for her role and was nominated for 18. In her private life, the actress has been married to psychologist Lara Embry and is a vocal campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights.


Jim Parsons


Jim Parsons made his breakthrough in ‘The Big Bang Theory’ in 2007, where he plays the straight theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper, who is in a relationship with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. Parsons publicly revealed that he was gay in 2012 after playing an HIV advocate in ‘The Normal Heart’. He has been in a relationship with his partner Todd Spiewak for ten years and the couple married in 2017.


Cynthia Nixon


Cynthia Nixon is best known for playing lawyer Miranda Hobbes in ‘Sex and the City’. In the sitcom, Miranda marries her on/off lover Steve Brady, which is a far cry from her real life. Nixon has been married to her partner Christine Marinoni since 2012 and is an advocate for LGBT rights and gay marriage in the United States.


Ashley Benson


Ashley Benson rose to fame as Hanna Marin in ‘Pretty Little Liars’. In the teen mystery drama series, Hanna finds love with her high school boyfriend, Caleb. Although the actress has never revealed her sexuality publicly, she dated supermodel Cara Delevingne for almost two years between 2018 and 2020.



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The flick is set to start filming in 2021.

Currently, Armie can be seen starring alongside Lily James (Mrs de Winter) in Netflix’s romantic thriller ‘Rebecca’ as Maxim de Winter.

The 34-year-old star also has ‘Death On The Nile’ coming out in December.

Jennifer will next be seen in ‘Marry Me’, which is slated for release on February 12, 2021.

Meanwhile, the 51-year-old singer-and-actress recently admitted she found it hard to be treated as an equal in the film industry.

The ‘Hustlers’ star admitted it was tough for her to land film roles at the start of her career, because she wanted to “be the lead” and found that Hollywood would only cast her in stereotypical roles.

She said: “At that time, there wasn’t, and it’s still not great now just for a caveat, but back then, it was just like, ‘How am I going to be an actress?’ And in my mind, I was like, ‘I want to play the girl, the woman.’ Right.

“Just not the Latin woman in the Latin role where you think I should play the cook or the nanny or something like that. That I wanted to be the lead, I wanted to just represent for everybody and make everybody see that it didn’t matter if you were Latin or black or Asian or whatever, you’re a girl, you’re a human being. And so there was those challenges of breaking through that.”

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