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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it interesting that Hollywood is chastised when a white or straight person plays an ethnicity or lgbtq. Yet, we’ve seen several instances where ethnic, trans, lgbtq are playing characters who are straight or written as white.  I personally don’t care who is cast as what, if the production is quality. Just pointing out the feeding frenzy that seems to trend for everyone who feels slighted 24/7.  The beauty of acting is that you can play anyone. There should absolutely be diversity but I don’t like the idea of militant quotas seeping into the Arts.

It’s also interesting that the same new standards don’t apply to 25 yr olds playing the wives to much older men on television. Ageism is still okay I guess.
Same goes for physically disabled/challenged.  That slighted group doesn’t seem to care much for championing or increasing disabled roles.

So much woke hypocrisy in Hollywood.[/quote]

I think it's partly because, historically speaking, there weren't that many good roles for actors of color, and even those were often played by white people, further reducing the opportunities for POC.  Whereas there are plenty of good roles for white people.  Also, a lot of times, a role isn't written as white because that's important to the plot or necessary in anyway, but just because white is treated as the default.  In a lot of cases, there's no reason that a particular character couldn't be non-white.  I think that a good actor can portray experiences that they've not personally had, but I do get the criticism related to opportunities for roles for underrepresented groups.

And lots of people have criticized the shlumpy older man with hot young wife dynamic, for years.  And there have been discussions around disability in roles and casting.  [/quote]

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