{"id":56551,"date":"2021-05-17T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T07:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=56551"},"modified":"2021-05-17T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T07:38:15","slug":"cox-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/cox-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cox Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When awards return to the air, a notable presence will be missing from the red carpet.&nbsp; <strong>Giuliana Rancic <\/strong>has announced her departure from <em>E! <\/em>to take up a development deal with <em>NBCUniversal <\/em>\u2013 the company that owns\u2026you guessed it, <em>E!&nbsp; <\/em>Since <strong>Ryan Seacrest <\/strong>already left, someone decided to combine those two and come up with a formidable replacement.&nbsp; <strong>Laverne Cox <\/strong>will greet nominees and ask what they\u2019re wearing.<\/p>\n<p>Laverne made news last week for another reason \u2013 and it could jeopardize her new working relationship.&nbsp; When films are released overseas, they are often dubbed by actors who speak the language.&nbsp; In the upcoming Italian release of <strong><em>Promising Young Woman<\/em><\/strong> (which came out here last Christmas), Laverne plays the pivotal role of Gail.&nbsp; In the Italian dubbed version, Gail is voiced by actor <strong>Roberto Pedicini<\/strong>.&nbsp; This is not an isolated incident \u2013 when <strong><em>Orange is the New Black<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The Mindy Project<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Doubt<\/em><\/strong> were released in Italy, Cox was dubbed by male actor <strong>Andrea Lavagnino<\/strong>.&nbsp; Days before the film\u2019s scheduled Italian release, someone leaked a clip online with Roberto\u2019s voice.&nbsp; All hell broke loose.&nbsp; Oh, did I mention the film comes to us courtesy of <em>Universal<\/em>?&nbsp; The company issued a statement: \u201cWe are deeply grateful to Laverne and the transgender community for opening our eyes to a bias that neither we nor many in our industry had recognized.\u201d&nbsp; They added that the part is being redubbed with a female actor\u2026which I\u2019m not sure is any better.&nbsp; I mean, a cis female?&nbsp; Not that I know how many transgender voiceover actresses there are in Italy.&nbsp; That\u2019s beyond my pay grade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When awards return to the air, a notable presence will be missing from the red carpet.&nbsp; Giuliana Rancic has announced her departure from E! to take up a development deal with NBCUniversal \u2013 the company that owns\u2026you guessed it, E!&nbsp; Since Ryan Seacrest already left, someone decided to combine those two and come up with<\/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-56551","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\/56551","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=56551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56552,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56551\/revisions\/56552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}