Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIt’s been 25 years since John Leguizamo, Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes starred in the drag queen comedy “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!
Julie Newmar.”The actors were lauded back in the day because it was considered courageous for cisgender straight men to play out and proud gay queens.Leguizamo now says if the film were made today, casting would look a lot different.“I hope we’ve evolved from that,” Leguizamo says during a Zoom interview from his home in New York’s Catskills for Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “Obviously it should be that any actor can play anything, but … it doesn’t really work that way.
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