Actors And Their Parts......

[ToraToraTora]

These days gay actors must play gay characters, disabled actors must play disabled characters etc etc so it follows that dwarf actors should play dwarf characters, right?
Wrong!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/flaBLptZ2gc

[Hopkirk]

Do you miss the days when Peter Sellers could play an Indian doctor singing "Goodness Gracious Me"?

[Barsel]

Gay characters are not only played by gay actors, and disabled characters are not only played by disabled actors.

[Barsel]

Hoppy, or play a French detective.

[maggiebee]

Or the casting of the white actor Michael Bates as the Indian bearer Rangi Ram in "It aint Half Hot Mum"

[Hopkirk]

I don't think imitating a French person is considered as unacceptable as putting on an Indian accent.
Should it be?

[ToraToraTora]

barsel yes I know but the woke brigade think they should be.

[Hopkirk]

Renee Zellwegger does a pretty impressive English accent in Bridget Jones.

[naomi24]

Did they say that actor was Michael Sheen? Well, whoever it was he's an absolute plonker! What a stupid argument. I wonder if he complained when a black actress played Ann Boleyn?

[Hopkirk]

Mind you Dick Van Dyke's cockney was criminal.

[naomi24]

He's got a man sitting there saying that he refers to himself as a dwarf, and yet the mouth complains that other people use the same term. Clearly climbing up his own bottom.

[Geoffrey13]

Only prats should play Piers Morgan roles.

[douglas9401]

The recently departed Mark Margolis played a wheelchair-bound stroke victim, Hector Salamanca in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad.
He did what he was supposed to do, pretend convincingly for the entertainment of viewers.

[piggynose]

So TTT how cud a tall/ above average height person play a dwarf? Would they have to kneel down all the time?

[andy-hughes]

Glenda Jackson played King Lear, Danny Larue played Widow Twankey.

It's how drama works, it's called suspension of disbelief, and it's gone on since theatre began.

It doesn't stop because some woke twonks want to relabel everything to fit their fascist agenda.

[ToraToraTora]

11:43 I am not suggesting non dwarves should play dwarves, that's a question for the moron in the video.

[barry1010]

Will we even need actors for anything except live performances?

AI characters would be a lot less demanding - but maybe their creators would be more problematic to the film and tv industry.

[douglas9401]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hugh-grant-wonka-oompa-loompa-***-wee-man-b2385779.html

[douglas9401]

That link won't work because the word '***' has been censored by Tweebank.

[douglas9401]

jack ass, as in the TV programme. Gawd!