Straight White Actor To Play Disney's First Gay Character.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Omar Sharif Jr tweeted: “Really Disney Jungle Cruise ? Your first significant gay role will be played by a straight white man perpetuating stereotypes? Fail! This ship should sink.” ///

Does it really matter if the actor happens to be straight or dare I say it, 'WHITE' for that matter?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/15/outrage-at-disney-casting-jack-whitehall-to-play-a-gay-character-is-misguided

[jim360]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1619260.html

[bednobs]

Wasn't dineys first gays character la fou in beauty and the beast?

[LadyCG]

There's far too much "outrage" these days. Perhaps people should reserve their outrage for real atrocities.

[Rockrose]

Yes Bednobs I believe you are correct.

[ToraToraTora]

....what's the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney?......

[ToraToraTora]

Bing Sings and Walt Disney! boom boom! and I haven't even been to lunch yet!

[kvalidir]

Lol that's funny Tora, I actually read that in Minty's accent :) x

[Old_Geezer]

???
You mean that the whole film/acting industry isn't gay after all ?

[ludwig]

The whole point about acting is that people play characters that aren't themselves.

It'd be pretty ridiculous if every time a production wanted to cast the role of a psychopath they had to find a real psychopath.

[ChillDoubt]

Why wasn’t there similar outrage when Sir Ian McKellen played John Profumo?

More snow in August.....

[Baldric]

Well, what a shock, I never for one moment thought that
Jack Whitehall was straight.

[ludwig]

//'Casualty' BUSTED as doctors aren't real doctors. //

Star Wars too. The Ewoks were just short people in Ewok suits. I think all the other people were bona fide though.

[Haggisdj]

If you follow this chain of thought through then surely only straight actors should play straight parts and only gay actors should play gay parts...

[jim360]

Whilst I think the outrage is an overreaction, it would be nice if people could come up with sensible comparisons for a change.

This is more related to the potential loss of high-profile roles for openly gay men, than it is about the idea that actors should only play themselves. In that sense, a rather more accurate parallel might be, say, the early 20th-century habit of white actors "blacking up" to play black roles, rather than employing actual black actors.

It's not remotely as serious, because although *this* role has gone to a straight man, plenty of other roles are still available for the openly gay. But the psychopath/doctor/ewok comparison is just silly.

[mallyh]

love to see louie spence been james bond lol x

[aelmpvw]

... and only men should play men and women play women causing insufferable problems for the casting directors of this year's christmas pantomimes