Chemistry doesn't come from sexuality: Newsweek article on Sean Hayes sparks a controversy

The Theater Loop: On April 26, Newsweek published an online article (it also appeared in print last week) suggesting that was an impossible assignment. Because Hayes, in real life, is gay. “Heterosexual actors play gay all the time,” went the provocative subhead, seemingly penned by an editor who had never heard of Rock Hudson. “Why doesn't it ever work in reverse?”