Ruby Rose Twitter Backlash

Imagine the backlash if a gay actor was told they could not play a straight part. Neil Patrick Harris anyone? Why can actors now only play parts that correspond to their life experience?

She's quit now which is great I was actually really looking forward to that spin off!

She's only quit twitter hasn't she? Or is there a new development?

Courage Under Fire is the one where she played a helio pilot.
Thanks for the correction
As you can imagine, it was a long time ago since I saw either.

What have Scarlett Johansen and Ruby Rose got in common? They're both female.... If I didn't know any better I'd swear queer culture hates women. Silly bigoted me.

She's quit now which is great I was actually really looking forward to that spin off!

Thanks Twitter

Courage Under Fire is the one where she played a helio pilot.
In top gun she was the wing man's wife iirc.

I'm up very late, and I have a head full of stuffing, but could someone confirm - Meg Ryan? In Top Gun?? As a helicopter pilot???!

This qualifies as adults bullying adults, wouldn't you say?

Well, Magneto and Gandalf are indeed gay. And Chris Hemsworth is indeed a god, though not actually Norse

But the whole blimmin point of acting is that people pretend to be something that they are not. Some people are better at doing this than others, and we recognise this. We shouldn't insist that every role is filled by someone who is actually the same as the character, that would be clearly ridiculous

They should have just got a real lesbian batwoman to play her, then it would have been properly authentic. Obvious really.
I think the way forward is to just have everyone playing themselves, no fictional characters at all. The film about me is going to be amazing. I almost tripped over this morning and I’m about to rearrange a dental appointment. The ratings are gonna be huge.

I hear things like this and it just reminds me of the classic Laurence Olivier quote.

He was apparently reacting to Dustin Hoffman having spent three days awake on the set of marathon man as ‘method acting’ and the legend goes he said something like ‘my dear boy, why don’t you just try acting....’

I've just looked at twitter for #batwoman and #recastbatwoman and can't find any saying she's not gay enough.
The main complaints seem to be that she isn't Jewish, she's a bad actor and that she outed Demi Lovato. The closest I can find is lesbians saying casting her is fanservice to get the straight audience because lots of straight woman were saying say she's their girl crush.

It must be horrible hearing all ofthe it for Ruby Rose but I don't think it's happened like she's saying. None of the news articles have screenshots either.

Well I know that Riley J Dennis is upset because Ruby Rose is white. A white female, even if they are nonbinary and 'queer', obviously does not tick enough diversity boxes. I think 'white' and 'female' somehow cancel out 'non binary' and 'queer'.

Perhaps the actor playing Falstaff at the RSC at the moment should have left the role to someone who is actually obese? Is wearing a padded costume akin to blackface? Can Richard III only be played by someone with a very specific kind of disability?

I'm not sure that my mother would have made it through teenage years if Richard Chamberlain had not been allowed to play Dr Kildare!

Does this mean that no gay actor should ever play a straight character?

Now that would certainly stir things up a bit!!
Gandalf and Magneto are gay??

I think it's possibly more about gender than sexuality. If somebody who isn't trans can't be given a trans role (as seen in the major kick off around Scarlett Johansson being given a role a couple of weeks ago) then it follows that a lesbian role shouldn't be taken by somebody who isn't even a woman.

We can all see that Ruby Rose is a GNC woman but she chose to build her profile around the gender fluid/neutral/non-binary/I'm not like other women thing. She's had a lot of publicity about it and is somewhat of an icon in the trans world. I'm not surprised people are reacting to her playing a lesbian character called BatWOMAN. I'm sure reactions would be very different if she'd said 'yep, I'm a GNC lesbian woman and proud' rather than trying to opt out of womanhood.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was criticised for playing a disabled character in Skyscraper while not actively being disabled. Eddie Redmayne to a lesser extent for playing Stephen Hawking.
It's not limited to women.
Like PPs though, isn't that what acting is?
Or should they have cast a real helicopter pilot instead of Meg Ryan in Top Gun?

Does this mean that no gay actor should ever play a straight character?

Ah ok as long as he IDs as Norse god then that’s sorted —still a load of nonsense—

Does Tom whatshisface have Horns as well

Butch lesbian was the role that Scarlett Johansson stepped back from, not Batwoman.

This whole thing is nonsense and from the actors point of view, why should they have to disclose the sexual orientation to get work?

Sorry, Juells, cross post!

I just saw any article on fb (The Pool... again!) getting upset that Jack Whitehall had been cast as a gay character because he's straight.

Although yes, I believe Chris Hemsworth is definitely a Norse god. And Mark Ruffalo turns huge and green when he's cross.

Jack Whitehall has come under fire because he's playing a gay guy in a Disney film. Role should have been reserved for a gay actor, evidently. Scarlett Johansson ran into trouble as well for agreeing to play a transgender character, she gave up the role IIRC.

When you think of all the gay film stars over the years, who played romantic lead roles, it makes no sense. Actors act.