Portia De Rossi as Beth with
Robyn Butler as Caroline on the set of Now Add Honey, now shooting in
Melbourne. Picture: Roadshow Source: Supplied
Sally Bennett, The Daily Telegraph, reports
Actor Portia de Rossi hopes her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres is a good example for young gay Australians.
The Victorian-raised-LA-based actor said she went from being a young woman who was "closeted and terrified of being outed as gay" to being happily in love with an American talk-show queen.
"I just fell in love with somebody and I thought I'm going to take this over living in fear of my television career ending," de Rossi said of coming out.
"I choose her, I choose to be happy and it was the best decision that I have ever made. We are actually good role models in that we're a very ordinary happy couple."
The Arrested Development star was speaking in Melbourne this week where she is filming Now Add Honey, a New Australian film from the makers of The Librarians and Upper Middle Bogan.
The Roadshow comedy also stars Robyn Butler, Hamish Blake, Lucy Durack, Lucy Fry, Erik Thomson and Angus Sampson.
De Rossi, who married DeGeneres in California in 2008, said marriage equality was "so important" and that she hopes in happens in Australia soon.
"It really does make a huge difference and it really does validate you, not only as a gay person in your relationship, but as a human being," she said.
"It's hard to explain the impact that just one person coming out can have on your life as a gay person if you're a teenager," she said.
"If you're watching the news and you know that the news anchor is gay, all of a sudden you think, maybe I could be a journalist, or maybe I could be a model, or an actress or a school teacher or a football player. It makes a huge difference."
De Rossi is flying solo for this three-week work trip and said she and DeGeneres were overwhelmed by the love and support they were shown during their March visit.
"It was crazy, it was great, but it was just surreal though," she said of the huge crowds that greeted them in Melbourne.
"It was like, this is my hometown, what is happening? And of course, I'd been telling her all this time, come to Australia and everyone will leave you alone.
"It was announced on her show (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) so I knew it was going to be a different thing, but I do actually think that if we came, just the two of us, that people would be respectful."
The release date for Now Add Honey is yet to be announced.
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