Eddie Redmayne

You know, I can't be bothered with him. I'll not bother spending my money on watching him again. I have really enjoyed some of his films but there's a limit to one's desire to support performers.

Didn't Sir John Gielgud once say "my dear boy, can't you just act?" To Dustin Hofman? Well, Eddie boy, throw away all your training, all those years of trying to get your name out there. Make room for people who take their Art seriously and treat it (and their audience) with respect.

Think of all those musicians who've trained so hard for years, who audition for orchestras, choirs, operas, do we want less than the best? No, we don't. We want the best musicians playing. Just like (gasp) we want the best actors. So, sorry, Eddie Boy, but fuck off to the far side of fuck and when you get there fuck off some more.

Only instead of family members feeling ashamed about the lobotomised sibling or mother or child left rotting in an asylum, they now celebrate it in schools and on social media as inclusion.

I believe that Jim Parsons is in love with Six from Blossom.

Blossom from Blossom surely - unless I have missed something? Is there a new TV show with Jim Parsons and Jenna Van Oy?

Thing is, pretty much every on screen relationship is made up isn’t it? Like, I don’t assume Leonardo do Caprio is actually in a relationship with Kate Winslet any more than I believe that Jim Parsons is in love with Six from Blossom.

Thinking of gay actors who were heart-throbs - Rock Hudson and Dirk Bogart.

My view on casting is that it should purely be based on the person who would be best for the part, and that sometimes casting someone, even a historic person, as a different race, is interesting.
Personally when it comes to sexuality, I couldn’t care less if a gay person plays straight or vice versa, again it’s the best person for the role.
My definite view is that people should not have to have the lived experience of a character before they can play them, in the same way that I believe authors can write what they like - if people don’t like a film, play, book etc, they can just choose not to watch it. It’s so weirdly limiting to suggest otherwise really. I would love to see more disabled actors in roles where their disability isn’t the main part of the story as well.

As for trans people, I guess just minimal art will be made about them because of the difficulty of casting. Do you pick a man and have them dress as a woman? Woman and dress as man or trans and have them start off as a “man” and then change? Surely that goes against the whole idea of their “true self” etc. if the role is purely a trans person then I suppose it does no harm as long as transition itself isn’t part of the story.

In about a century, there will be books on the shelves looking at this period of madness.

I wonder what it will be known as. I have no talent for that sort of thing but 'When the Lunatics Ruled the Asylum' or 'When the Tail Wagged the Dog' would do.

Yes even as I typed that I felt like I was writing in the News of the World in 1992.

Ah yes, thank you, Ozgirl75

at 'bottom based sex act'

@IntermittentParps Ash Mukhergee was the Indian school teacher - the tall good looking one who has an on/off relationship with Ritchie. He’s the one who gets him to shower before he (ahem) continues with a bottom based sex act!

I have to say ER was amazing in the stage production of Cabaret that I was lucky enough to see last week. Never saw Danish Girl as the concept of the film wasn't of interest to me, but it does sound like he's talking tripe.

His acting skills are minimal.

(He is a convincing rapist in hick though, even though his limp is not convincing at all)

Oh fuck the fuck off Eddie

I liked you in fantastic beasts but that’s it.

You don’t have the monopoly on women’s rights just because you “played one”

Happy to take the place of a disabled actor to play Stephen Hawking.

I think he thinks that sort of whispering/whimpering every line gives him an incredibly tender and vulnerable attitude but I actually find it very annoying.

Is ER a prince, merry? It is against his principles if he identifies as having any otherwise.

Let’s hope the Crown continues for a few years, because I think he is pretty much limited to playing Prince William.

I wonder why he isn’t apologetic for playing a disabled rapist in hick?

And yes, restrict ER's future roles to his own particular box. Fortunate person who has had every advantage provided for him. And spinelessly joins in with the biblical mob like condemnation of a woman for not bowing down to entitled men's wish for privilege over the rights of women and children. In my personal opinion, of course.

The time I wasted watching the Danish Girl is time I'll never get back. rubbish actor, too. And irritating to watch ER's infantile, come hither simpering as a woman child

I hope people like him/her/furry, who are so magnificently virtue signalling are married to a TW or TM, as it may be transphobic if he/she/furry is not. His/her/furry public statements could be the equivalent of greenwashing. Put his/her/furry money and ER's relationships where his mouth is, or many may think he is transphobic.

Pronouns are now not a shortcut. You may as well use personal names the whole time.

I don't see the issue as He was a man in a dress acting as a man in a dress. If a woman had taken the role and pretended to be a man in a dress that would have been wrong, because women cannot be TW only TWATW aka men.

If it’s about taking parts away from actors who haven’t enjoyed his privilege, he should really restrict himself to playing characters who went to Eton.