Bill Maher Rips Criticism of James Franco Casting as Fidel Castro: Acting *Is* Appropriation (Video)
thewrap.comis. That’s why acting jobs are called roles.”Maher pointed out that Leguizamo has played a Columbia American, a Venetian, a French little person and an Italian plumber when he is none of those things. “But he played them too… because he’s an actor!
Why the hell do you think people become actors? Because they want to spend their life not being who they are.”Sean Penn won an Oscar for playing gay civil rights, martyr Harvey Milk, which, Maher said, was “considered a courageous act of solidarity for a straight male movie star to play a homosexual.
Now it’s the opposite.” And Eddie Redmayne played a transgender woman in the “Danish Girl,” but now calls that a “mistake.”“Does it then work the other way?
Can trans actors only play trans characters ‘cause that’s not gonna be a good deal for them,?” Maher asked. “And isn’t the best acting always about making us feel our common humanity beyond separate identities?
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