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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: UK
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: UK
Posts: 7,038
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How do you feel about actors and minority roles?
The discrimination thread brought this to mind as people were talking about not being allowed to comment if you aren't part of the minority.
More and more in the press we are seeing actors being shamed into giving up roles because they are not personally part of the subject matter which seems wrong in my view as acting is all about playing a part.
What it did to bring to mind though is a question. I'll use the most recent news case as an example. If an actress is not allowed to play a transgender character because she is not transgender does that mean a transgender actor cannot play any role but transgender ones and if not then isn't the nonn trans actress being discriminated against. Can we have a black bond or is that also discrimination against white actors because it is a traditionally white role.
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Last edited by jaxie; 21-07-2018 at 05:40 PM.
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