Mum's anger after daughter cast as overweight girl in school play?
 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/overweight...7.html#sefC2ku

Would you have taken the part?

after seeing the pictures on the article, all i can say is... brilliant casting.

Screaming

What a lil chick. Anyone who finds this funny is vile.

How insensitive, what on earth were they thinking?!

Augustus Gloop. :laugh2:

This is awful, not only because of the weight-casting, but the fact they gave her a male role too without even telling her.

Unfortunately the sad truth is that any television/theatre company in the world does some form of type-casting

Her daughter was so distraught and upset by this she sold the story to a newspaper and has it all over the internet. I'm sure her daughter appreciates that.

Anything for a quick buck. :idc:

Teachers joining in on the bullying? :/ Although bringing it to the papers is surely a terrible idea for the poor kid as well

:unsure:

How is this remotely funny,this is a kid obviously bullied for her weight,so people laughing and jesting would be ok if this was their daughter?

I don't think you need to audition.

When we did primary school productions, everyone had to take part and you were assigned roles by the teacher.

...in Year 8?

I agree but you have to question the parents motives here as well by embarassing the poor kid evenmore by giving the story to a newspaper.

(#tbt to my Oscar-worthy primary school not-at-all-racially-insensitively-casted performance of Rama)

:hee: She looks very young for a high school kid.

Well it must be the same at her school.

I highly doubt they've just dragged her into a drama production randomly. So either her entire drama class are taking part or she's a member of some club and they've assigned her a role or whatever.

Where's my article...

When we visited Roald Dahl museum in year 3 I had to re in act Augustus Gloop getting stuck up a tube, they had like a min set :(

Everyone called my name straight out when the staff/tour guide said they needed someone to play him :(

:joker:

I agree,it's a silly thing to do,I don't know their motives,it could make things worse for her,I don't know.I still feel really sorry for that kid though.

I tell you what the mothers motive are, money I'm sure she was offered a few hundred for her story

if this girl really wants to be an actress, she's gonna have to get used to this ****. how many leading ladies are fat in hollywood? only one... Melissa McCarthy... why is she a leading lady? because she can laugh at herself! toughen up girl.

...I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to be an actress...

When I was in school we were given parts like a draw, whoever wanted lead roles put their name in a box and our teacher picked - could be that because she was off sick she simply got the part nobody wanted.

It worked out well for me in our plays I got to play Rizzo from Grease and Penny in Hairspray but I got stuck being an evil tree, an Oz worker in Wizard Of Oz when I wanted to be Dorothy SO bad!

well not with that attitude.

Probably,none of us really know,maybe she was just so angry and wanted to shame the school .