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So white actors must not play POC, straight actors must not play gay people, able bodied actors may not play disabled people.....

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HoliHormonalTigerlilly · 10/02/2022 15:28

But men. Men can play women. That's FINE apparently!

https://www.screendaily.com/news/eddie-izzard-to-play-lead-role-in-female-reimagining-of-doctor-jekyll/5167332.article

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BraveBananaBadge · 10/02/2022 18:16

It sounds quite interesting actually. Eddie can do it in whatever 'mode' Eddie likes. But to call it a 'female reimagining' completely takes the piss.

VioletLemon · 10/02/2022 18:08

So the character is reimagined as a male who sometimes identifies as a transwomen, except for when there is an opportunity to benefit from (biological) male privilege. A bit like Eddie... WTAF?

IvyTwines · 10/02/2022 18:06

And it has already been done, and done very well indeed: Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, with Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick.

JenniferAllisonPhillipaSue · 10/02/2022 18:01

I did question how Eddie Izzard permits himself to play straight male roles, such as in The Lost Symbol on Sky ... I guess he wants the best of both worlds. All four worlds. Well, pretty much every world.

KittenKong · 10/02/2022 17:59

I genuinely think that people in general are getting fed up and bored with all this utter nonsense. Constantly being told what they can and can’t think and do, being told that they can’t believe their own eyes, and that we must learn new language so’s not to ‘offend’ or make people feel ‘unsafe’. Soho House offering a choice of 4 pronouns from a list of 40 when you sign up…

It has finally eaten itself.

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HoliHormonalTigerlilly · 10/02/2022 17:26

@WaningMoon

What’s the point in reimagining the character as a women and then having a male play her?

Absolutely fucking none. This could have been an amazing opportunity for a female actor, what a waste.

Yup.
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highame · 10/02/2022 17:08

and they wonder why populism is taking off

LilithOfEden · 10/02/2022 17:07

@quiteathome

I assumed the character must have been trans.

Last time I saw Eddie in something the character was male. And that was that recent Netflix thing.

As male as male can be, right down to his preference for fat pinstripes, and his paternalistic care taking of happy hookers.
quiteathome · 10/02/2022 17:01

I assumed the character must have been trans.

Last time I saw Eddie in something the character was male. And that was that recent Netflix thing.

WaningMoon · 10/02/2022 16:24

What’s the point in reimagining the character as a women and then having a male play her?

Absolutely fucking none. This could have been an amazing opportunity for a female actor, what a waste.

SamphiretheStickerist · 10/02/2022 16:20

Flammable means the same as inflammable.

In case anyone else was looking for some more unecessary verbiage!

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HoliHormonalTigerlilly · 10/02/2022 15:54

@CorrBlimeyGG

able bodied actors may not play disabled people.....

Non disabled actors play disabled people all the time.

The opposite of disabled is not able bodied. Many disabled people are able bodied, and vice versa.

Ok
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Signalbox · 10/02/2022 15:53

So presumably Izzard is going to morph from a "female" Dr Jekyll into a male Mr Hyde? I wonder if this "reimagining" will have space for any actual female actors?

NancyDrawed · 10/02/2022 15:52

With [Eddie] being the extraordinary and versatile actress she is

Interestingly, I have only seen male trans actors using 'actress' as a term to describe themselves. The female members of the profession have been using 'actor' for a number of years now.

Also, while I have no issue with changing Dr Jekyll from male to female as a twist, doesn't using a trans actor somewhat play into the favourite (and incorrect) TRA line that saying 'no' to men in women's spaces is equivalent to saying all TW are predators?

CorrBlimeyGG · 10/02/2022 15:52

able bodied actors may not play disabled people.....

Non disabled actors play disabled people all the time.

The opposite of disabled is not able bodied. Many disabled people are able bodied, and vice versa.

AtrociousCircumstance · 10/02/2022 15:52

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Goatsaregreat · 10/02/2022 15:50

So that's an important potential role for a woman actor - not available for a woman. Hmm

DorothyZbornakIsAQueen · 10/02/2022 15:49

“With [Eddie] being the extraordinary and versatile actress she is, playing against Scott’s natural talent to make us believe in the good in people, I can’t wait to bring this suspenseful take on the iconic classic to life,” said Stephenson

So versatile that they have only EVER played blokes before

JellySaurus · 10/02/2022 15:46

Until I read the link, I genuinely thought this must be a spoof. There is more than a soupçon of similarity between this tale and individuals who present as themselves one day and as women in another day.

So a group of men are making a film about a male who adopts different identities while hiding his relationship with another male. It's certainly a reworking of Dr J & Mr H, but hardly a female one. More a homophobic reworking of the story.