heck, if they are even halfway convincing, i would chalk it up to more than good acting....
YUP!
Now, Steve McQueen was a great actor. But would he have accepted this role? "Okay, Steve, now you make out with John Wayne . . . that's right . . . you really dig it . . . now reach around there and . . . woah!"
Well, he and his "fiancee" --it's Hollywood, what do you expect--Michelle Williams just became the proud parents of baby Matilda, so his sexuality probably isn't in question.
And if it is, what a waste of a beautiful man! My copy of A Knight's Tale is almost worn out!!!
(I know this gossip because I recently had to take a plane and I read the trashy gossip rags to make the time go by! ;-)