needs to give back his Oscar - Tom Hanks Discussion

why?

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[–] darkpast (8172) 2 years ago

Tom Hanks: Straight Actors Could Not Play Gay ‘Philadelphia’ Role Today and ‘Rightly So’

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/tom-hanks-straight-actor-gay-philadelphia-role-1235295598/

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[–] ChipDouglas (1607) 2 years ago

interesting

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

https://c.tenor.com/f_Mhfr-5yB0AAAAC/shaking-my-head-sigh.gif

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[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 2 years ago

He's also not mentally challenged so he should also give back his other Oscar. And I never thought that movie was that good anyways.

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[–] VanZan (844) 2 years ago

I took it as meaning that there would be outcry from the LGBTQDSLDSLXYZ+ sections of society that the part didn't go to an actual homosexual. And I think Tom is correct. Don't think he's saying it should be that way just that they wouldn't get away with it in the modern era.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

That reasoning may have been true had he not said "Rightly so". That's him pandering.

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[–] Mattc164 (606) 2 years ago

He’s 100% correct. Straight men can not play gay men in movies. Its, as he says and i quote, “not authentic.”
I’m also tired of innocent people who’ve never been arrested before playing murderers and rapists.
I want to start seeing these people have a chance to shine too. Its long passed time that they stopped being discriminated against. We need to start casting real murderers.

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[–] Magicdave (586) a year ago

Hear Hear! Let all serial killers out of prison and use them to make movies about serial killers!! Brilliant!

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[–] kwestmo (4221) 2 years ago

phony is more accurate

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

Yep.

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[–] liscarkat (16907) 2 years ago

Then, to be consistent and not be hypocrites, gay actors should no longer be playing straight characters.

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[–] BeaSouth (2856) 2 years ago

And we need convicted murders to play the killer in every murder mystery

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[–] Heisenberg (6424) 2 years ago

That would greatly improve the level of suspance, especially while shooting.

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[–] actionkamen (23176) 2 years ago

Somebody call Alec Baldwin to tell this exciting idea!

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[–] davebuffalo (3084) a year ago

This idea is going to open up a ton of new roles for Alec, because the SAG has very few real murderers on the payroll!

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[–] Burk48917 (11077) a year ago

Oh, we'd probably be surprised. You never said convicted, lol, but I'm sure a few celebs have gotten away with it.

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[–] strntz (11060) 2 years ago

And only actual pilots should play pilots and only real astronauts should play astronauts. We need to cancel all his films.

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[–] PaladinNJ (20428) 10 months ago

They would fight any attempt to let anyone do that. There just aren't enough gay characters to support them.

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[–] MavKilledGoose (787) 2 years ago

Criticizing straight actors for taking on gay roles is pretty silly. Similarly silly are right-wing gun-activists unironically complaining that Matt Damon and Matthew McC-alright-alright-alright guy wield firearms in their movies.

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[–] AzureSeb (471) 2 years ago

Similarly silly are right-wing gun-activists unironically complaining that Matt Damon and Matthew McC-alright-alright-alright guy wield firearms in their movies.

Similarly silly are left-wing Democrat nutjobs like Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Brad Lander, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Maxine Waters, who want to defund the police despite benefiting from police/security protection.

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[–] MavKilledGoose (787) 2 years ago

That's strained. We're talking about actors, not general hypocrisy. Everyone in some benefits from government services they might prefer did not exist (or were curtailed). This is going to be especially true for people ideologically committed to "small" government.

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[–] rushington (734) 2 years ago

https://youtu.be/AlLnmrfvhb4

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[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

It's called acting!!!

That's like saying Mark Hamill should not be in Star Wars because he wasn't born the planet Tatoine

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[–] strntz (11060) 2 years ago

SPOILERS!!!!!!!

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[–] strntz (11060) 2 years ago

Pander Gump

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[–] CMX (244) 2 years ago

Both of his oscars.Both are problematic.But he wont,he just wants the sjw points without sacrifice

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[–] Roguemail (1568) 2 years ago

A lot of similar shit talk on the Blonde/Monroe movie thread too about Ana De Armas.

Surely the point of being an actor is to challenge yourself and play roles and characters that are different from yourself, to challenge yourself?

The people who maintain only gay actors should play gay roles for example, isn't the actor going to be typecast in those roles?

I think many people fundamentally don't understand the whole profession of acting.

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[–] darkpast (8172) 2 years ago

he didn't go full retard , no problem

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