Sentence examples for straight role from inspiring English sources

And Jerry Lewis has the straight role.

"It was frustrating because the cast was great and it was a straight role for me".

Even the casting of comic actor Steve Edge in the minor, straight role of Graham.

Instead, Smith took a straight role in Trevor Nunn's revival of Terence Rattigan's Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

"I'm a better leading actor as a gay man than I've ever been in a straight role," he said.

Never Let Go (1960) also had a pretty vicious villain, played surprisingly and effectively by Peter Sellers in his first straight role, as a London gangster.

Do we, as audiences, find it difficult to accept gay actors playing straight roles?

He's a gay man who can play both gay and straight roles.

Here are five examples of actors in same-sex relationships playing mostly straight roles.

Ms. Lynch is equally successful in straight roles as gay ones.

Hollywood gave him a chance to escape his comic genius and live out his real life weirdness in straight roles.