Toon Bana Bats for Our Team

Star Trek isn't the only new movie Eric Bana is working on next. He has been cast in Harvie Krumpet Oscar-winner Adam Elliot's first feature-length film, Mary & Max. In the quirky animated adventure, Bana will voice a character described as "the gay love interest of a Kiwi sheep farmer named Desmond". (Fellow Aussies Toni Collette and Barry Humphries have also been cast in the film.)

Now, this is far from the first gay toon (Snagglepuss? Timon and Pumbaa? Big Gay Al???), yet all the reports feel it is necessary to call this Bana's "most unusual role to date". Huh? Don't they remember that this is the guy who has played:

• Australia's most sadistic murderer/best-selling author (Chopper).
• A talking shark who has sworn off eating fish (Finding Nemo).
• A scientist who turns into a very large, very green behemoth when he gets angry (Hulk).
• A skirt-wearing warrior named Hector (Troy).

Compared to these characters, what's so "unusual" about a man-loving hunk of plasticine? (And believe me, with Bana playing it, it will be a hunk.)

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