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la confidential, worldwide, authors, cumberland, virtual education, hawaii, focal fatty sparing , secondhand, footy show greatest hits 1994-2002 dvd, big plump , kiwi, | Pearce’s rhetoric distances him from the queerness of Felicia as he stages a kind of reverse ‘outing’; he says that playing Felicia was ‘a really nice opportunity for me to get in religious books touch with my feminine side and really enhance it’ religious books 48 and that it was ‘liberating’ for him to go out in religious books drag because nobody recognised him for the first time in years. In a society where so many gay men feel they must conceal their sexuality at all costs, fearing vilification and violence, Pearce’s ‘liberation’ rings hollow. Thus, like Elliott, Pearce capitalises on queer culture without acknowledgement of cultural debt or the power relations inherent in his appropriation. Pearce can ‘play’ queerer than queer, but safely stay as straight as a die. |
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‘Hey Dad, you la confidential can’t fool me!’ the caption reads. The little girl becomes a badge of heterosexuality, a negation of the ‘queer’ image of her father, able to see through to the ‘real’ (that is, heterosexual) Hugo Weaving underneath. Similarly in an interview published in The Age Guy Pearce says that taking on the role of Felicia in Priscilla allowed him to infiltrate the gay culture of Oxford Street in Sydney. Dressed as a queen, he and his la confidential two co-stars ‘went to DCM and Gilligan’s … I actually had some guy who kept wanting to buy me drinks la confidential and I was being very cheeky and obnoxious, just playing out the character’.46 Paradoxically when asked what he thinks about some of the negative reactions to the film from gay lobby groups in the United States, Pearce tells the interviewer that these groups ‘should open up their minds a little’ and ‘chill out’.47 |
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