Daniel Brocklebank

I pretend for a living, I didn't want to pretend in my private life. When you spend your life on screen, it's important to hold on to the bits that are real. Who I am in my real life should bear no relevance to what I play on screen [...] I remember my management in Los Angeles trying to convince me not to come out because they said it would affect work – and it did [...] I stopped being screen-tested for the heterosexual male leads, and I was either the gay best friend or the character parts.{{cite web|url=https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/film-tv/daniel-brocklebank-says-coming-out-as-gay-at-18-after-shakespeare-in-love-harmed-his-career-303353/|title=Daniel Brocklebank says coming out as gay at 18 after Shakespeare In Love harmed his career| website=Attitude|last=Tabberer|first=Jamie| date=22 July 2021|access-date=25 March 2023}}

I pretend for a living, I didn't want to pretend in my private life. When you spend your life on screen, it's important to hold on to the bits that are real. Who I am in my real life should bear no relevance to what I play on screen [...] I remember my management in Los Angeles trying to convince me not to come out because they said it would affect work – and it did [...] I stopped being screen-tested for the heterosexual male leads, and I was either the gay best friend or the character parts.{{cite web|url=https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/film-tv/daniel-brocklebank-says-coming-out-as-gay-at-18-after-shakespeare-in-love-harmed-his-career-303353/|title=Daniel Brocklebank says coming out as gay at 18 after Shakespeare In Love harmed his career| website=Attitude|last=Tabberer|first=Jamie| date=22 July 2021|access-date=25 March 2023}}{{unreliable source|reason=Cites Daily Mirror. Per WP:DAILYMIRROR, Daily Mirror's reliability may be questionable.|date=April 2026}}