Bill Maher ripped the “the casting police” for their criticism of actors taking on roles outside of their ethnicity or sexual orientation.
The casting controversies have also including Emma Stone , Jake Gyllenhaal for playing a Persian , Gal Gadot as Cleopatra, Johnny Depp as a Native America , Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein and Tom Hanks, who won an Oscar for playing a gay man inThe talk show noted that Sean Penn snagged an Oscar for playing gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
“At the time, it was considered a courageous act of solidarity for a straight, male movie star to play a homosexual. Now, it’s the opposite.”, but has since called the part “‘a mistake’ because ‘many people don’t have a chair at the table.'”Article content “Well, actually in movies now, they do. And what does that have to do with playing trans? Does it then work the other way? Can trans actors only play trans characters? Because that’s not going to be a good deal for them … And isn’t the best acting always about making us feel our common humanity beyond separate identities?? Of course. But Ryan Gosling as Frederick Douglas? Yes, that would be problematic.
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