Olivia Colman: “I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man.” 🙄

Interesting post, I want to watch now...

Butch?? Olivia Colman?

Oh yeah she's totally lovely looking!
Butch women can look great too but I wouldn't class OC as butch in the slightest.

She also doesn't look as if she's had shit done to her face which I appreciate (or rather, didn't look like that in the last thing of hers I watched which TBF isn't current).

I don’t think she looks butch at all. She looks like a woman with short hair. The gay man thing is ridiculous.

Ah come on now. I'm sure she's many things but unattractive is not one of them. I think she's stunning actually - I could look at her all day. Shes not 'butch' in the slightest

Sometimes the amount of nonsense going round in the culture is hard to keep track of. Especially the stuff that originates in the Very Online bits of American culture and then seeps into the very different British context.

15 years ago I would not have predicted a subculture of gay Jewish nerds pretending to be pagan fascist bodybuilders, but there's no other way to describe the Bronze Age Pervert and his network.

And if the American Right has its quota of gay people pretending to be straight, the American Left has a much bigger quota of straight people pretending to be gay.

And when America sneezes Europe catches cold; and mix that into luvvies' well known propensity for being utterly ridiculous.

I haven't seen anyone being unkind about OC's appearance. She's an attractive woman; if she weren't she wouldn't have been nearly so successful as an actor. She's a very feminine woman. If we're going to define femininity as "looking like Margot Robbie", then hardly any women qualify, probably not even Margot Robbie before she's spent hours in makeup.

The basic problem with actors is that they get their jobs because they're good at pretending. Often the characters they pretend to be have heroic qualities or intellectual depth, and the actors either wish they were like that or believe they actually are like that. George Clooney has spent so many films playing the one honest man standing up to corrupt institutions that I think he's come to believe he is his character. No wonder actors are suckers for con artists like L Ron Hubbard or Gerry Healy.

I thought she was great in The Night Manager. I loved the book, but I'd caveat that by saying (i) Le Carre was not very good at writing women - the way he wrote Jed was much more focused on her desirability to men than giving her a personality, and (ii) the male version of Burr was a slightly identikit character, not badly written but nothing he hadn't done a dozen times before. So making Burr a woman added an extra dimension to the story, and OC did it brilliantly.

The actor John Hurt wanged on about his Irishness, lived there too. Went on Who do You Think You Are, turned out his familiy were all from Croydon.

I also hated her in The Crown - Claire set that bar so high and she was nowhere near it.

But I loved her in Fleabag, Broadchurch, The Favourite. I think she's versatile though there is a certain OC quality about everything she does (a bit like Emma Thompson in that regard).

The hate on this thread is staggering. OC simply said she doesn't identify as particularly feminine, more as non-binary, why should she police what she says about herself if that's how she feels? Why can't she describe her experience as she experiences it? She's not saying she isn't female, she is saying that femininity isn't a big part of her sense of self, why does that offend people so much?

This is me 🤣

The sort of English person who is desperate not to be English and considers themself "Celtic" on the basis of vague or imagined family connections to Scotland, Ireland or Wales, or "feeling a spiritual connection".

Yeah an aunt of mine (aged 75 and in the 70s was marching for women's rights) recently claimed she now identified as queer and non-binary and would prefer if we used 'they/them for her.

My father said 'For Christ's sake Maureen, you've given birth to two children. If you are confused look inside your pants'.

Honestly if i had known family dinners were going to be so funny i would go more often.

Also the term 'queer' was reclaimed in the 80s and earlier by the LBGT movement eg Queer Nation, not by the trans movement.

Remember folks, actors are only interesting when they are acting. Speaking the screenwriters words and doing what the director tells them to do.

To me she does what all British “national treasure” thespians do, which is play a thinly disguised version of herself in every role, so while I agree she’s an idiot, I don’t agree that she’s a good actress.

This. I’m a lesbian and I literally couldn’t go to my grandad’s funeral last year as I was concerned for my safety. It’s not a fucking joke and I’m so tired of the bullshit spouted by these people.

Good grief she tries hard.

She's a blithering idiot.

Though some of her acting work is superb.

I find it odd the way actors have been raised up in our society as some kind of moral arbiters. Why?

We don't care what talented footballers or racing car drivers think about anything outside their area. Why would we care about Colman's views?

I really do cringe when straight people use the term queer to make themselves look a bit edgy.
I just want to tell her to get a fucking grip love you're embarrassing to listen to.

Could she physically get more fucking roles?! She’s in EVERYTHING!

I love her work too.

It will be interesting to see if she gets more roles because of this. Although her "national treasure" status probably insulates her a bit, it's undoubtedly much harder for women aging in her industry.

So perhaps it was a good move. (Of course it's also mind numbingly thick and homophobic, but I've never understood why the public is so hungry for the opinions of actors on anything other than acting).