Josh O’Connor admits ‘mixed feelings’ about playing gay roles as he prepares for his latest one

British star Josh O’Connor has revealed his “mixed feelings” about playing gay, ahead of his latest queer role.

O’Connor, who appeared alongside Zendaya and Mike Faist in Luca Guadagnino’s raunchy tennis drama Challengers, is set to appear opposite Gladiator II heartthrob Paul Mescal in gay WWI drama, The History of Sound.

He also appeared in the queer romance, God’s Own Country, in 2017, in which he played a repressed gay farmer who falls in love with a farm hand. Despite this, the star told Vanity Fair that he wasn’t “100 per cent sure” how he feels about playing gay characters.

“It’s a really difficult subject,” he said. “The truth is that I will read a script and what affects me, affects me. The History of Sound is a film about many things.

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