{"id":41195,"date":"2021-01-17T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=41195"},"modified":"2021-01-17T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:49:21","slug":"fraser-is-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/fraser-is-the-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser is The Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russell T. Davies <\/strong>was asked about the casting of <strong><em>It\u2019s a Sin<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; He insists he\u2019s not being \u201cwoke\u201d by following the trend of casting openly gay people in the roles.&nbsp; \u201cI feel strongly that if I cast someone in a story, I am casting them to act as a lover or an enemy or someone on drugs or a criminal or saint.&nbsp; They are not there to \u201cact gay\u2019 because \u2018acting gay\u2019 is a bunch of codes for a performance.&nbsp; It\u2019s about authenticity, the taste of 2020.\u201d&nbsp; He goes on, \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t cast someone able-bodied and put them in a wheelchair.\u201d&nbsp; Does the word <strong><em>Ironside<\/em><\/strong> ring a bell?<\/p>\n<p>In a related story, <strong>Brendan Fraser <\/strong>has signed on to play a 600-lb gay recluse in the new movie, <strong><em>The Whale<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; My God, he\u2019s been preparing for this part for eons!&nbsp; I wonder if people will get crazy about the casting, or will they just shrug and ask, \u201cSo?\u201d&nbsp; Interestingly, some are already against the casting of Fraser, claiming that the filmmakers are fat-phobic.&nbsp; Apparently they haven\u2019t seen Brendan since <strong><em>George of the Jungle<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell T. Davies was asked about the casting of It\u2019s a Sin.&nbsp; He insists he\u2019s not being \u201cwoke\u201d by following the trend of casting openly gay people in the roles.&nbsp; \u201cI feel strongly that if I cast someone in a story, I am casting them to act as a lover or an enemy or someone<\/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-41195","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\/41195","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=41195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41196,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41195\/revisions\/41196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}