Patricia Arquette Explores..Munchausen By Proxy-hypocritical defense of taking movie roles

Fresh Air NPR ^ | 4/29/19 | Terry Gross

[fungoking]

In 2015, a woman named Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in the Missouri home she shared with her teenage daughter, Gypsy Rose. As the details surrounding the murder came out, it was revealed that Blanchard had falsely convinced Gypsy Rose and everyone they knew — including doctors — that Gypsy Rose was seriously ill and needed to use a wheelchair. After her death, Blanchard was posthumously diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental health disorder in which a person makes up or causes illness in a person under their care. Actor Patricia Arquette, who plays Blanchard in the new Hulu series The Act, says it was "very weird" to get into the character's head: "I had to kind of think of who Dee Dee was outside of all of those judgments people had after the fact."

[fungoking]

While the Blanchard story is interesting and happened just down the road from where I live, I was struck by Arquette's defense of taking a movie role for which she had to gain weight instead of letting a heavy actress play the role. The reason it stands out is that she is a big SJW always criticizing Hollywood for not providing more roles for under represented groups. When called out for taking a role from a...well...fat actress that probably doesn't get a chance at leading roles, she tries to explain how her diversity stance doesn't apply to her, and then she blames men.

Typical Hollywood hypocrite. If you listen it is at the 15 minute mark

[fungoking]

BTW, if you do listen, man were her parents screwed up. No wonder she's a crazy lib and her brother “transitioned” before he died of HIV.

[SMARTY]

‘Hypocritical’ covers a LOT of ground...it’s a really big club

[EdnaMode]

All that virtue signaling they do is nonsense. I don’t think they believe a word of it.

[Skywise]

I think they do. They believe what they say but they don’t really understand what they’re saying. It’s more important to go along with the group and promote what the smart people they listen to say.

[z3n]

Lost Highway, Stigmata, Little Nicky, etc. She seems to have serious dark side to her

[Hildy]

It’s all Stockholm Syndrome and mass hysteria.

[Blurb2350]

I disagree. They do believe the nonsense they spout. They believe it with all their heart. Their heads — their rational minds — never enter into their nutty equations. As Ronaldus Magnus pointed out, so much of what they believe simply isn’t true.