Lenny Kravitz was inspired by Tom Ford to play stylist Cinna in 'The Hunger Games'.
The singer-and-actor had not heard about the Suzanne Collins novel - which tells the tale of a future world where youngsters are made to fight to the death for TV audiences - but wanted to make his character as toned down as possible so he wasn't ''too outrageous''.
He said: ''I'll be quite frank with you - I didn't know about 'Hunger Games' - so when I'm telling kids and they say, 'Who are you playing?' and I say Cinna, they go, 'Oh you're playing the gay guy.'
''The question was 'How far do we go with him?' The idea was to pull it back and create a character that's more like a Tom Ford or an Yves Saint Laurent so he wouldn't be too outrageous. He's classic, he's got his gold eyeliner. I kind of played him in the middle.''
The 47-year-old star did not go into the role thinking that the character was gay, but merely eccentric.
He added to Celebuzz: ''I thought about it, and I read the book and I don't see that he is or isn't [gay]. He's a designer, he's a stylist, he has gold eyeliner-that doesn't mean anything either way.''
|
| Share on Facebook |
 |  |  |  |  |
- Gwyneth Paltrow takes daughter's fashion advice
- Mary-Kate Olsen's fashion criteria
- Tommy Hilfiger joins American Idol
- Joan Collins praises 'smooth' Diddy
- Tom Ford launches 3k glasses
- Alicia Keys selling home for $17.9m
