Transwimen actors call for trans quota quota for female roles

[GrumpyPanda]

.. more specifically, for 2 to 3 TW candidates to be united to every 20-strong audition.

And one of the interviewed, a mid-40s trans actor, complains about getting fewer offers of female roles, ostensibly since "coming out" aged 40. Who's going to tell the poor dear about Amy Schumer's genius sketch celebrating an actress' "last fuckable day"? Welcome to womanhood, "sister."

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/02/just-let-us-audition-uk-transgender-actors-appeal-to-be-cast-in-non-trans-roles

Since any old cross dresser or "non binary" person now seems to refer to themselves as "trans" I daresay there's loads!

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Not me, I'm a littleot!

@SinnerBoy

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When we lived inFrance, one of our favourite vignerons was M. Bigot.

To be fair, they shoehorned a transman into Ripley, to the confusion of some of the older ladies in my knitting group who could tell at once it was a woman but didn’t realise it was a political choice that the audience was meant to politely pretend not to notice.

Sting's daughter totally threw me as Freddie.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-untalented-mx-ripley/

The same actor is in a film called Together Together about surrogacy. Playing the surrogate. And the baby gets named Lamp. I wish I was making this up.

Fuck my old boots

So they think they're women and should be treated as every other woman is, and then they realise what that means, they decide they want to be special. Or did they think that all along.

There was a transman in Fallout, a member of a religious military brotherhood. I kept waiting for the plot twist to be revealed, but no sign so far.

Oh? I've watched up to episode 4, but hadn't noticed.

When will celebrity couples wise up and do the progressive thing, by giving a transwoman the chance to be their surrogate? Such bigots and biological essentialists, always choosing cis.

I'd like (I wouldn't actually) to see a TW take the Anastasia role in 50 Shades of Grey film. Not sure what Jamie Dornan would be happy about that.

Surely they realise as women at that age your days as an actor unless you have made some sort of impression in the industry it is time to give up

This is the reality of being a woman actor

There are thousands of women actors who just want to audition. Where is there article in the Newspaper

Want to be a woman then this is the reality. Stop thinking with your man brain and assuming that you will get the same privileges as men then bitching about it when you find you don’t.

Act like a woman. Accept the reality and do something else.

I just love the fact that they don't just want a quota, they specifically want some of women's quota.

(and cutted-up pear?)

That's the whole thing in a nutshell.

Oops. I didn't realise that character was trans - asked my son with whom I was watching why there was only one woman in the troop

I don’t think the character was trans, just the actor. Unless there’s a plot twist next season…

I’d be surprised if all those men failed to notice a woman among them- though I suppose a few women have managed the disguise, through the ages.

I won’t spoil your fun!

Episode 1 and 8

Oh, that's me told off so!

As I put on the other thread, the LGBT lobby are currently pushing for only gay actors to play gay roles, so I don’t know why that shouldn’t apply to trans actors. I don’t agree with that idea, but the likes of Russell T Davies do.

What I don't get about all this is then surely by the same logic, only (biological) women should play (biological) women?

There's a beautiful woman with short hair and no breasts in something I was watching with my son the other day. Fallout. Then we realised she was in a brotherhood so pretending to be a man. It was ridiculous.