Billy Crystal: "Sometimes I think, 'Ah that’s too much for me'"

[Miles Archer]

Billy Crystal: Gay Scenes On TV Sometimes 'Too Much For Me'



Billy Crystal was one of the first actors to play a gay character on television, but that doesn't mean he isn't wary of some of the gay content that ends up on the small screen.

The beloved comedian opened up about his feelings regarding the nature of gay scenes on television while speaking at a panel for the Television Critics Association on Sunday in Pasadena, California, the Independent reports.

"Sometimes I think, 'Ah that’s too much for me,'" Crystal said. "Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I’m not going to reveal to you which ones they are."

As Deadline reports, Crystal also spoke about his groundbreaking gay character, Jodie Dallas, which he played on ABC's "Soap" from 1977 to 1981.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/19/billy-crystal-gay-scenes-tv_n_6501156.html

[hollysmom]

1. this is an excerpt, I don't really know exactly what he thinks goes too far

The comments seem to assume he is a terrible person. But he is old.
I have reached an age when sex scenes between people of any orientation (gay, straight, alien) annoy me. I am old and I don't want to see it, others do, what ever. I don't feel like I am a prude, I just want them to go forward with the plot instead of soft core porn. I believe it is like Charles Dickens who got paid by the word so he tried to stretch out his stories - the writers run out of Ideas so they want to insert sex scenes to give them more time.