A lot of ppl were saying if you need a disabled role, hire a disabled person, if you need this and that hire someone with that exact trait. That’s not the point of acting. The point of a good actor is that they can change for every role.
okay but another point of acting is authentically bringing the experience of the character portrayed so that the audience can empathize with that character, so stuffing someone without that lived experience into the role deceives the audience into thinking that they’re empathizing with people like that character when they’re actually just getting what the actor thinks it’s like instead
If black people can play a white person, then absolutely. White Chicks, best white face ever. Tropical Thunder, best black face ever. I’ll see my way out.
A lot of ppl were saying if you need a disabled role, hire a disabled person, if you need this and that hire someone with that exact trait. That’s not the point of acting. The point of a good actor is that they can change for every role.
IMO, it’s all good if their pick isn’t just who ever is the hot item that year, and if the pick actually does a good job.
okay but another point of acting is authentically bringing the experience of the character portrayed so that the audience can empathize with that character, so stuffing someone without that lived experience into the role deceives the audience into thinking that they’re empathizing with people like that character when they’re actually just getting what the actor thinks it’s like instead
You just described acting.
ah, so hiring a white actor to play a Black person in blackface would be okay, then
I mean, Kirk Lazarus was a great character that used blackface in the 2000s… So, I’d say yes, depending on the purpose of the character.
If black people can play a white person, then absolutely. White Chicks, best white face ever. Tropical Thunder, best black face ever. I’ll see my way out.
In both of those examples, the actors played characters of their own race, pretending to be another race as the plot of the respective movies.