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

[NaysayerOrMeanie]

Olivia Colman is currently on the press tour for her new film Jimpa and has come out with some absolute corkers in an interview with them "magazine" including:

"Throughout my whole life, I’ve had arguments with people where I've always felt sort of nonbinary. Don’t make that a big sort of title! But I’ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, “Yeah, I get that.”"

Which I can only assume means he likes it when she pegs him.

And a dig at some undefined group of naysayers and haters and meanies:

"Most of the actors were from, particularly in the Dutch side of things, from the queer community there; I’ve never been part of a more welcoming group of people. For all those naysayers or haters or meanies, if [only] they could spend the time with the most welcoming, kind bunch of people. I kind of want everyone to just come and say hi and actually feel total love."

Jimpa stars Olivia Colman as Hannah, mother to the non-binary Frances (played by they/them, non-binary, queer, transgender daughter of the film's director, Aud Mason-Hyde) who go to Amsterdam to visit Hannah's gay HIV positive father (John Lithgow, currently simultaneously scorned by the queers for daring to be in the new Harry Potter series, any by the meanies for talking shit about JKR). I'm sure it will be a hoot.

Congratulations Olivia on your brave coming out as a queer, non-binary, gay man, spicy-straight woman. You're so late to the party all the cool kids will find your identity embarrassing now.

Isn’t she.

That’s just it, isn’t it? It’s reinforcing regressive standards and trying to force women back into a box, helped along by the likes of Coleman who are trying so desperately hard to be “right on” that they can’t see the harm they do.

As for her claims to be a gay man, it’s shades of Robbie Williams claiming to be “49% gay” (IIRC). What he seemed to mean was “I don’t actually shag men, but I see myself as fulfilling every other stereotype of a gay man” ”

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

Hilarious! 🤣 👏

I'm crying with laughter! I wish I could attend the family dinner too!

From a review of this film:

"Frances, in particular, is a thin outline of a stereotypical Gen Z baby gay, and Mason-Hyde lacks the acting chops to make the character’s half-formed nature feel like a reflection of their youth rather than thin writing; a magical night out discovering the queer scene of Amsterdam doesn’t really convey a sense of excitement when the characters are busy talking about polyamory and queerness in a way that feels instructional to the audience rather than natural."

And:

'his arguments against Frances (whom he constantly misgenders and apologizes to)"

It sounds rubbish.

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?

Cant stand this woman. Any time i see her mug on TV I have to switch off 🤢

My guess is that the financial backers looked at the reviews the film was getting and got the message through to Colman that she had to say something attention-grabbing to drum up interest in the film.

Another over privileged, naive and silly woman heard from. Thanks 'Liv.

Good to know you'll be fine and having a lovely time in the mixed sex facilities while the women living lives you've never experienced, thought about or are not the kind of people you'd be friends with or invite to dinner, can still have access to society in the single sex facilities.

That Ricky Gervais speech at the Golden Globes(?) nailed these idiots so perfectly.

Not really. She's a gay man, remember?

Yeah. I said ‘huh?’ because I thought I misheard.

Oh god I'm so effing bored of privileged female actors (also looking at you Emma Corrin) claiming to be NB or Demi sexual or whatever the fuck else just because they've got short hair and an eclectic dress sense

she has no fucking idea the impact this pernicious ideology has on women and girls not in ger enormously privileged position

and yes as PP said, it's not like she needs to tout for work, she's in bloody everything!!!

Can't say as I'm surprised, disappointed but not surprised.
She's always struck me as a Tim, nice but dim and she's proving that with her surface analogy of "get to know them and then you won't hate them". We don't hate them Olivia, we just don't want them in the next cubicle.

Privileged overpaid gurner talks through they's unpegged arse.

What a disgusting post. There is more than enough hatefulness in the world. There is no need to willfully contribute to it.

What precisely do you think is 'hateful'?

And yet here you are....

I expect this thread will soon be full of ppl telling us we are huge meanies btw usually by posters why mysteriously can never find the many many threads detailing the real life damaging impact this ridiculous ideology has on women and girls

Still can’t get my head round using queer. It was always such a horrible insult when I was brought up. I don’t feel comfortable using that word.

I suppose there will always be people who want to be special, or are keen to shed a tarnished or unfashionable identity. If they don't have an obvious trump card to play, they will reach rather desperately for anything at all.

For example:

Middle class people trying to make out they are actually working class. (And vice versa in circles where the snobbery is direct rather than inverted.)

White guilt people scratching around in their family trees for an ancestor that might possibly have been Native American or Black. Or just outright lying about their antecedents, especially if it might get them a job they wouldn't otherwise have got.

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".

People who are sucker for anything at all, positive or negative, that will put them in a rare or superior category. Or if they are irredeemably ordinary, they must have a special sort of child. YouTube is full of stuff that panders to that kind of thing. Rare blood group, eye colour, "cool" (or dark-and-therefore-sexy) psychological trait... you name it.

It's a human constant, but the desired or disdained categories change with the times and vary in different social settings. Currently "cisheteronormative" is a dirty word in certain circles, so...

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.

Yes me too. I find it utterly gross

Nooooooooo I love her as an actress, didn't know she talks so much bollocks.

Coincidentally watched her in an episode of Jimmy McGoverns Accused series with Anne Marie Duff last night, over 10 years old but absolutely superb from both of them.