The Imitation Game has been
criticized for not including a sex scene, but one of its stars,
Matthew Goode, has defended the decision.
In the film, the 38-year-old Benedict
Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness, 12 Years a Slave, August:
Osage County) plays Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician who
helped crack the German Enigma machine code – a triumph of computer
science and a turning point for the Allies in World War II. After
acknowledging that he was gay, Turing faced chemical castration as
punishment.
And while this plays an important role
in Turing's life, The Imitation Game does not include a sex
scene.
“You're damned if you do and you're
damned if you don't,” Goode, who plays mathematician Hugh Alexander
in the film, told The
Daily Beast. “I'm glad that we didn't. There's many
things we tried to get right, and I think it would've been too far,
in the first film. I'm sure there will be other films about Turing
that are 'braver.' But for bringing this story to a greater audience
around the world, I think we gave him a film that he deserved.”
Goode has previously played gay in
Brideshead Revisited and A Single Man.