{"id":87223,"date":"2022-01-02T23:14:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=87223"},"modified":"2022-01-02T23:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T07:14:31","slug":"war-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/01\/02\/war-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"War of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a war of words between <strong>Aaron Sorkin <\/strong>and <strong>Billy Eichner<\/strong>.&nbsp; It started with Aaron defending the casting of the Spanish <strong>Javier Bardem <\/strong>as the Cuban <strong>Desi Arnaz<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cSpanish and Cuban are not actable.&nbsp; If I was directing you in a scene and said: \u2018It\u2019s cold, you can\u2019t feel your face.\u2019&nbsp; That\u2019s actable.&nbsp; But if I said: \u2018Be Cuban.\u2019&nbsp; That is not actable.&nbsp; It\u2019s heartbreaking and a little chilling to see members of the artistic community re-segregating ourselves.\u201d&nbsp; He then added, \u201cYou can act being attracted to someone, but you can\u2019t act gay or straight.&nbsp; So this notion that only gay actors should play gay characters?&nbsp; That only a Cuban actor should play Desi?&nbsp; Honestly, I think it\u2019s the mother of all empty gestures and a bad idea.\u201d&nbsp; While I applaud Sorkin, the analogy enraged Eichner.&nbsp; \u201cCompletely ignorant of how Hollywood has treated its openly LGBTQ+ actors for a century.&nbsp; Talking about shit he doesn\u2019t fully comprehend.&nbsp; Scared that Hollywood isn\u2019t (entirely) ruled by straight men anymore.&nbsp; Go write yourself a \u2018walk and talk\u2019 back into the past.&nbsp; Merry Christmas!\u201d&nbsp; A curious coda given Sorkin and Eichner are both Jewish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Darren Criss <\/strong>waded into the same waters.&nbsp; He previously said he would no longer play gay roles \u201cto make sure I won\u2019t be another straight boy taking a gay man\u2019s role\u201d \u2013 which begs the question\u2026is one still a \u201cboy\u201d in their mid-30s?&nbsp; Criss recently said the following: \u201cNo matter what I say, I\u2019m going to get into the same mess that I\u2019ve always gotten in, which is me being what I believe is very fair and diplomatic, but nobody\u2019s interested in that, because compassion is not currently in vogue.&nbsp; So I don\u2019t know what to say\u2026There are so many performances that are either straight roles given by queer actors or queer roles that are done by straight actors that are so beloved, that we just don\u2019t talk about those.&nbsp; But if they\u2019re done poorly, we get up in arms and we blame it on the fact that this person isn\u2019t queer, this person isn\u2019t straight, as opposed to maybe they just weren\u2019t the right person for the job?\u201d&nbsp; This begs a second question \u2013 if he\u2019s no longer accepting gay roles, will Darren Criss ever work again?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a war of words between Aaron Sorkin and Billy Eichner.&nbsp; It started with Aaron defending the casting of the Spanish Javier Bardem as the Cuban Desi Arnaz.&nbsp; \u201cSpanish and Cuban are not actable.&nbsp; If I was directing you in a scene and said: \u2018It\u2019s cold, you can\u2019t feel your face.\u2019&nbsp; That\u2019s actable.&nbsp; But<\/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-87223","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\/87223","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=87223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87224,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87223\/revisions\/87224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}