Luke Macfarlane on Developing a Queer Hallmark Christmas Movie and Playing a Straight Character in ‘Platonic’: ‘I’m Very Versatile’

For many years, Luke Macfarlane was one of only a handful of gay actors who never shied away from playing queer roles. His coming out during a newspaper interview in 2008 coincided with him playing Matthew Rhys’ husband on the ABC family drama “Brothers & Sisters.”

But in his latest work, Apple TV+’s “Platonic,” Macfarlane plays a straight character, Rose Byrne’s husband.

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“Quite simply, like most actors, gay actors, straight actors, we just need someone to say, ‘I’m gonna give you a shot,’” Macfarlane told me at the “Platonic” premiere in Los Angeles. “The fact is somebody said, ‘That guy who just

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