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After watching James Corden play a gay man in Prom I had a discussion with my roommate in which i became an ardent oppositionist to "outsourcing" underrepresented roles in movies. (1/7)
Because honestly, even if you reach the point where you think it's important to tell stories about underrepresented people, how could you possibly deny someone of that group the related role in your film? (2/7)
I keep thinking about Love, Simon and Love, Victor where both leads are straight and the message to me is "queer stories are worth money but queer people aren't important enough to tell their own stories." (3/7)
We talked about disability, too. If you tell a story about someone who is autistic, or in a wheelchair, or blind, but as a director/casting agent/etc. you're not willing to actually work with a disabled person on set so you hire someone to put on that experience? (4/7)
That feels like the worst kind of exploitation of someone's story. If you create a trans character and the leading role goes to a cis person who is going to spend the movie or TV show "putting on" a trans experience, what are you actually doing there? (5/7)
(The film Disclosure talks extensively about this). To me it feels like lying about what matters to you. Because when you don't put underrepresented people on both sides of the camera and in the story, to me you're just using us to make money. (6/7)
So fuck Ryan Murphy, fuck James Corden, and fuck the Golden Globes. And fuck a long, long list of people who have been doing this for a very long time. (7/7)
Like I always say: if Beyoncé can fill her Coachella stage with Black instrumentalists and dancers of every kind, you can find one fucking gay White man who acts, Ryan Murphy.
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