{"id":2195,"date":"2016-09-05T03:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2016-09-05T03:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:37:39","slug":"bomer-to-play-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/09\/05\/bomer-to-play-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomer To Play Trans"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s intriguing that the more people clamor for “color-blind casting”, the more people get upset when it doesn’t work in their favor.\u00a0 People say they want entertainment to be cast diversely, but apparently that only goes for roles which were traditionally played by Caucasians.\u00a0 Imagine the uproar if Kathleen Turner <\/strong>were cast as Rosa Parks <\/strong>– something, frankly, I’d love to see (I can almost hear her saying, “Lordy, Lordy, I sho’ is tired!”).\u00a0 But they all want to see our forefathers played by ethnic minorities, or perhaps a mixed-race Romeo and Juliet<\/em><\/strong> – because that would be so true to 14th-century Verona!\u00a0 The latest politically incorrect casting is for the upcoming film Anything<\/em><\/strong>, based on the play of the same name by Tim McNeil<\/strong>.\u00a0 The play was described as “a wryly humorous and profoundly moving story of the unlikely romance that blossoms between a reclusive grief-stricken widower from small-town Mississippi, and his charismatic transvestite neighbor on the brink of her own destruction.”\u00a0 It’s been announced that Matt Bomer <\/strong>has been cast as a transsexual sex worker.\u00a0 It’s not like Bomer isn’t talented or breathtakingly handsome.\u00a0 And he’s paid his dues – my God, he’s slept his way to the middle.\u00a0 What more do you want?\u00a0 But, according to some people, the only person who can play a transsexual is a transsexual.<\/p>\n

Jen Richards<\/strong>, creator of the Web series Her Story<\/em><\/strong>, Tweeted<\/em>, “When Jared Leto <\/strong>plays Rayon and accepts his Oscar <\/em>with a full beard, the world see’s that being a trans women is just a man performing.”\u00a0 No – what the world saw was an actor who played a role.\u00a0 I’m fairly confident Anthony Hopkins <\/strong>has never killed anyone, but he made an indelible Hannibal Lecter.\u00a0 Turns out Ms. Richards has an axe to grind, as she revealed in a follow-up Tweet<\/em>: “I auditioned for this.\u00a0 I told them they shouldn’t have a cis man play a trans woman.\u00a0 They didn’t care.”\u00a0 I guess in their na\u00efvet\u00e9<\/em>, they simply wanted the best actor for the role.\u00a0 The person taking the heat for the casting is Mark Ruffalo<\/strong>, since he’s the executive producer.\u00a0 “To the Trans community.\u00a0 I hear you.\u00a0 It’s wrenching to see you in this pain.\u00a0 I am glad we are having this conversation.\u00a0 It’s time.\u00a0 In all honesty I suggested Matt for the role after the profound experience I had with him while making The Normal Heart<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s intriguing that the more people clamor for “color-blind casting”, the more people get upset when it doesn’t work in their favor.\u00a0 People say they want entertainment to be cast diversely, but apparently that only goes for roles which were traditionally played by Caucasians.\u00a0 Imagine the uproar if Kathleen Turner were cast as Rosa Parks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}