snoop1130 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Casting transgender actors in trans roles will make films better – don’t we all want that? Casting a cisgender woman in the role of a transgender man sends a message that transgender men are essentially women who adopt a role as a man (Picture: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty) Last week, actress Halle Berry revealed on social media that she’d been considering a new film role, where she’d play a transgender man. It was frustrating and tiring to hear. After receiving strong criticism from the trans community and their allies, however, the actress released a statement saying that she was no longer pursuing the role, and that transgender people should have an opportunity to ‘tell their own stories’. It was a hugely positive move, showing us that some actors are willing to take on feedback and show allyship, and made me feel hopeful that the conversation about trans representation on screen might finally be moving forward. Full Story: https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/15/halle-berry-transgender-casting-12993052/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritManToo Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Nothing new, Dick Emery and Monty Python were doing it years back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post H1w4yR1da Posted July 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2020 What the hell is wrong with actually acting? How many trans actors are out there? 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotman Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, H1w4yR1da said: What the hell is wrong with actually acting? How many trans actors are out there? all of them ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Are movies about reality? Or is it about showing something to the viewer which they think is kind of reality? Some time ago I saw a movie about all the things which happen regularly in movies. I.e. bombs are always ticking. And they always have red numbers counting down. Is that realistic? Probably not. And all computers have lots of flashing lights and clicking keyboards - fiction! So what will any movie with a transgender person show the viewer? The real life of a transgender person? Or what the viewer is supposed to accept - played by any actor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post faraday Posted July 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2020 Let's just have the most talented actors, irrespective of their pqrst or whatever. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted July 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2020 Going to list my all time top 5 Transgender movies now - with or without transgender actors. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H1w4yR1da Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) 21 minutes ago, RichardColeman said: Going to list my all time top 5 Transgender movies now - with or without transgender actors. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Rocky Horror Picture Show? Edited July 16, 2020 by H1w4yR1da Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sungod Posted July 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) Real soldiers playing soldiers in war films, police being police in police movies, gangsters playing gangsters, Ah, the list is endless. Its called acting luvvy........ Edited July 16, 2020 by sungod 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChouDoufu Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 does this mean that in order to ensure the accuracy of the film, that gay or transgender or whatever must not be hired to play straight roles? will there be a test during casting? what sort of documentation must be provided? what happens if this is an historical drama, and the main subject's genderocity is questioned by some historians? will there be a pool of actors with publicly questionable identities to pull from? and what about the people behind the camera? should it now be required that all film crew be white, male and french? anything less would be cultural appropriation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trucking Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I see a Disney remake. Slush grey and the seven hermaphrodites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli42 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 There seems to be a lot of trans gender’s who have a lot of spare time on their hands 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubbaJohnny Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Now that play acting is to be realistic there will be lots of parts for the dead.May even be walk out parts parts for Zombie Apuckerlips at swampy on 31st for crowd scenes in the re make of Exodus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkleGoooose Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Sure, why not? If these weirdos and their movies disgust me then I'll just avoid them. No need to stamp my little feet on social meedja and let leftie imbeciles know how I've been wronged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AgMech Cowboy Posted July 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 17, 2020 17 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Casting transgender actors in trans roles will make films better – don’t we all want that? No. I like to watch people who can act like they are someone else. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nausea Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 15 hours ago, ChouDoufu said: does this mean that in order to ensure the accuracy of the film, that gay or transgender or whatever must not be hired to play straight roles? Good point, reverse engineering makes a mockery of the whole argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazes Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Shakespeare has the occasional trannie (or rather, drag queens) on stage. It's all Much Ado about Nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
248900_1469958220 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Well I simple SHAN'T SLEEP till this is resolved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LomSak27 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) Casting transgender actors in trans roles will make films better – don’t we all want that? Many of us just don't see it as a major issue facing humanity in 2020. BTW, they used cast lots of gay's as straits with no problems. Rock Hudson made a career doing just that. Edited July 17, 2020 by LomSak27 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodga Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 What about 1 legged asexual midgets with learning disabilities, total discrimination, appalled of lala land 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, bodga said: What about 1 legged asexual midgets with learning disabilities, total discrimination, appalled of lala land The one legged asexual multi-mixed race midget is busy casting for the James Bond roll.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritManToo Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) 21 hours ago, RichardColeman said: Going to list my all time top 5 Transgender movies now - with or without transgender actors. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Mrs. Doubtfire. with Robin Williams Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. Shakespeare in Love with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck Monty Python and the Holy Grail with John Cleese, etc. Actually Shakespeare in Love had it all with Gwyneth pretending to be a boy, so she could act the part of a girl. Edited July 17, 2020 by BritManToo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newnative Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 No, I don't 'want that'. I want any actor to be able to go for any part. I want the producers and the movie studios to be able to choose whomever they want for the roles in the movies they are making and financing. Maybe I want to pay money for a movie ticket to see Tom Hanks in Philadelphia rather than an unknown gay man; and Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher rather than someone else. Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury... The movie Halle Berry was considering sounds interesting with her in it, less so with an unknown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCross Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 yeah i'm all for that but in the essence of fairness.. only trans play trans only gays play gays only straights play straights now thats fair AND inclusive! no? thought not.. want my cake and eat it too waaaaaahhhhhh ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 15 minutes ago, BritManToo said: Mrs. Doubtfire. with Robin Williams Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. Shakespeare in Love with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck Monty Python and the Holy Grail with John Cleese, etc. None of these movies are transgender - just people dressing up in drag in order to gain access to something. The article is about people of transgender playing transgender people - transgender isn't about putting on your mothers dress and high heels. Though you may mean life of Brian (loretta) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazes Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 43 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said: The one legged asexual multi-mixed race midget is busy casting for the James Bond roll.... that's quite some sandwich..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnray Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 She's just wants the attention. She probably quit or got replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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