I feel that society nowadays, more than ever, wants actors to be too similar to the role they are playing, and if they aren't they get offended. One article that I think maybe had gone too far, is this one I read:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/04/enter...rnd/index.html
Basically they don't want Scarlett Johansson to play a transgender character, cause she is not transgender in real life.
But that what acting is! Playing a part that you are not. I mean when Rain Man came out for example, no one complained about Dustin Hoffman playing an autistic man, rather than getting a real autistic actor.
When Milk came out, Sean Penn plays a gay man, but no one complained about him not being gay in real life, in order to play the role.
In The Crying Game, when Jaye Davidson played a transgender character, audiences didn't care back in the 90s and they accepted it as acting.
It's acting and pretending. So why are people so up in arms about this today? It's like complaining that Bradley Cooper played a sniper in a war, when he himself never had to kill in any wars. It's acting.
So I don't get what the big deal is. And the reason why they get actors who may be so dissimilar to the roles they are playing is because of celebrity box office. That is how movies make money. What's wrong with that? Am I missing something?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/04/enter...rnd/index.html
Basically they don't want Scarlett Johansson to play a transgender character, cause she is not transgender in real life.
But that what acting is! Playing a part that you are not. I mean when Rain Man came out for example, no one complained about Dustin Hoffman playing an autistic man, rather than getting a real autistic actor.
When Milk came out, Sean Penn plays a gay man, but no one complained about him not being gay in real life, in order to play the role.
In The Crying Game, when Jaye Davidson played a transgender character, audiences didn't care back in the 90s and they accepted it as acting.
It's acting and pretending. So why are people so up in arms about this today? It's like complaining that Bradley Cooper played a sniper in a war, when he himself never had to kill in any wars. It's acting.
So I don't get what the big deal is. And the reason why they get actors who may be so dissimilar to the roles they are playing is because of celebrity box office. That is how movies make money. What's wrong with that? Am I missing something?
Last edited by ironpony; 03-12-19 at 03:58 PM.