Edward's current popular image was also shaped by his contrasting appearance in Mel Gibson's 1995 film Braveheart, where he is portrayed as weak and implicitly homosexual, wearing silk clothes and heavy makeup, shunning the company of women and incapable of dealing militarily with the Scots.
A imaxe popular actual de Eduardo tamén foi influída pola súa aparencia contrastada na película Braveheart de Mel Gibson de 1995, onde é retratado como un débil, implicitamente homosexual, vestindo roupas de seda, voluminosa maquillaxe, evitando a compañía de mulleres e incapaz de someter militarmente aos escoceses.