Posted on 01/02/2021 4:04:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In early December, Netflix dropped its highly anticipated musical comedy “The Prom,” starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells and James Corden asfading Broadway stars who set out to help a lesbian teen take her girlfriend to the prom. The film, helmed by out director Ryan Murphy, got mixed reviews, but some lambasted it as “homophobic” and “offensive” because of the casting of Corden, a straight actor, in what they saw as an “aggressively flamboyant” caricature of a gay man.
Erik Anderson, who runs the film site Awards Watch, called “The Prom” a “gorgeous and vibrant production” but tweeted that Corden’s “performance is gross and offensive, the worst gayface in a long, long time.”
The controversy threw fuel on an already simmering debate: Should non-LGBTQ actors still be cast in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer roles?
There’s no shortage of celebrities playing queer characters in television and film. But increasingly, LGBTQ actors are getting tapped to play these roles, and many of them feel only they have the authenticity and experience to bring these characters to life.
Transgender actor Zoey Luna, 19, who starred in the 2020 film “The Craft: Legacy,” said she brings “real representation” to the character of Lourdes, a teenage witch who is trans.
“I think when a cis person goes in to play a trans role,” Luna said of cisgender, or nontransgender, actors, “they're bringing more of a projection.”
While straight and cisgender actors are given many opportunities to play roles outside their own gender and sexuality, many gay and trans actors say they are given far less leeway. This is another reason, in addition to the authenticity factor, that some argue queer roles should be reserved for queer actors.
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I remember the BirdCage movie being very entertaining.
This article is nonsense. Actors are people who get paid to pretend to be something they are not - it’s their job! DUH!
No straight man should play a gay character. End of story.
Should gay actors play straight characters?
What next? Rapists playing rapists, real murderers playing etc?
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It is illegal to ask anyone their sexual preference during an interview. It is also illegal to for a job requirement to be gay. So now some people want to get mad either way.
This proves some people are pre-pissed off at all times.
Then justify their anger after the fact with twisted logic.
If you call out their twisted logic, they just revert to name calling.
I don’t watch reality shows, but commercials are packed with perverts now.
Pray for them; seriously, what a sad affliction. When all is said and done, they know they aren’t well; that is why no amount of “tolerance” or “acceptance” will end the problems with substance abuse and crushing depression. I thank God I don’t have the urges and impulses these people feel.
The whole point of acting, and getting degrees in acting and Fine Arts is to portray anything, interpret any part for any number of circumstances. It’s theatrical that way. But I guess there’s a difference between stage screen and video. Heck, dispense with the Graduate Studies because they’re no longer needed.
Harrison Bergeron, you’re up in five minutes!
If a “straight” actor plays a role where he has to kiss or be otherwise intimate with another man then he ain’t really straight.
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Like there is a shortage of homo actors.
No gay characters. Problem solved
On Modern Family one of the “gay” actors is straight.
The other calls him a pay to be gay actor.
Solution is the show should be taken off the air while the straight actor is digitally erased from the show and replaced by a cgi gay bot. Also no residuals for the straight actor.....
Posts like yours are one of the reasons I really enjoy Free Republic...:)
Short, and straight to the heart of the matter. If someone were to ask that question to the homosexual community, the indignation would be over the top.
But, if one is to accept that mindset-how could that question itself, and the prohibition of homosexual actors to play heterosexual roles would be a completely valid one.
I don't ever think I have ever seen a more horsecrap-loaded statement than that one. And that is saying a lot.
Great post, Get.Blather.
Great post.
#12 See “Schitt’s Creek” <- stupid title, it is on Fox channel and one of the actors Dan Levy who also produces the show is way animated as you described. He is a caricature of gay people, of himself.
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