I mean it’s not unheard of. Billy Porter and Harvey Fierstein had a big fight over the main character in Kinky Boots, whose gender identity and sexual orientation are left deliberately vague.

Billy Porter, the lead actor who had a large say in the show’s development, insisted that the character of Lola should be explicitly a gay man who performs as a drag queen. Harvey Fierstein, the writer, preferred for Lola to be a cisgender heterosexual man who is exploring gender fluidity and flirting with the notion of identifying as trans.

The compromise was ambiguity: Lola would appear both in and out of drag, flirt with both men and women, never explicitly state an identity, and would deny any identity another character uses for them. This way, each actor could play it how THEY see it, and each audience member could have their own theory.