Monday, August 20, 2018

An Actress Speaks Out

I have repeatedly spoken out by the lack of trans actors given a chance to audition for trans roles in movies.
Glenn Close on ScarJo’s transgender casting issue, James Gunn firing
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By Greg Evans
August 17, 2018

Glenn Close, who starred in the 2011 film “Albert Nobbs” as a woman living life as the male title character, weighed in on the recent controversy over Scarlett Johansson’s casting in a transgender role.

“My thinking right now is that people who are producing and directing properties like that need to go out of their way to get trans actors jobs,” Close said in a podcast with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, “but they also should have the opportunity to cast the best person.”

Close added that “acting is a craft” and that she believes “anyone should be able to play anyone. But I do understand the frustration.”
My thoughts exactly… give us a chance.

Many times we are not even given a chance to try out for the part and I am not just talking about lead characters but also supporting casts. In The Danish Girl there were a number of trans people who were cast for the movie and the world didn’t come to a stop.

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