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.

An ally to who?

This.

Being an ally doesn't mean that you claim to be something you clearly aren't.
I don't see white friends putting on blackface to speak up about racism.
Ally my arse.

Did you post this on the wrong thread?

The only platform I want her to use is the one at the railway station. People who are famous aren't experts in anything, maybe in their own profession, but nothing else. She's entitled to her own opinion on anything, there's no need to spout that opinion at every opportunity.

She sounds embarrassed to be a straight woman. How depressing.

She’s an actor publicizing her new movie. It’s not that deep. Some of you are going out of your way to get upset and angry and make this much bigger than it is. It’s pretty weird.

It’s a response to the post by the poster she @ mentioned, obviously.

Well indeed! Nothing more embarrassing than being a straight and even worse middle aged woman is there?? Oh the shame!

luckily for her Olivia is not like those other boring middle aged women 🙄

No. People are responding to what she has said. It's not that deep.

I love this and may have to steal dad’s reasoning.

In a nutshell, she has been very vocal in stating that trans women are women. She’s far from being the only actor/entertainer to say this, but I am vastly more disappointed by this from her as I have always loved her work and admired her ‘don’t give a fuck’ attitude.

I mean, it wasn’t Holland, but would Belgium do? Roisin Michaux went to meet someone from the queer community there recently. Is this the kind of lovely, welcoming individual Olivia thinks we meanies should get to know?https://substack.com/@peaked/note/p-186731217?r=2yzd18&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

extract here - apologies to anyone trying to eat breakfast atm:

Sissy Joyce is a Belgian man who creates online content around his sissy fetish. He also claims to be a woman.
He came to my attention when I got fed a Facebook ad for a meet-n-greet out in his physical shop, the fetish-themed “Sissy Market”, which is a sex shop that caters specifically to men with the same type of paraphilia.
I wanted to talk to him because, despite his apparent view of women as airheaded jiz-receptacles, he comes across as weirdly naive about why he might give people the night terrors, or why women might not want him in our changing rooms. And his naivety seems real in a very autistic way, and not just as a contrived part of his performance.
I decided to approach the interview in good-faith and openness (but firm truthfulness), despite knowing what I know. Firstly, because I just really want to get to the bottom of what the fuck is going on with these men, and secondly, he seemed genuinely to think that TERFs are hateful people. I also didn’t want to be mean to him because ultimately, he has a kink for that and, like, you know.
His shop is located quite literally in Buttfuck, Nowhere, in the north of Belgium. It’s in the quiet town of Balen, which sounds a bit like ‘balls’ in Dutch (I wish I was making all this stuff up) and it sells things like little girls’ school uniforms, cheerleading outfits, and cutesy fluffy pyjama onesies — all in sizes big enough to fit a horse. It also sells all the necessary accessories that go with being a sissy — such as XL tubs of ‘Fist Butter’ which help you get your fist into someone’s arse while you are pretending to be a little schoolgirl at a pyjama party, one assumes.

Ugh.

I think that she can say she finds a community welcome and describe finding something she self identifies with. Actually it’s not a struggle for me to think she didn’t feel very womanly in a business where the beauty standard is so high and represents an ideal tha she doesn’t fit. I mean the word is woman and the whole point of being one is that you are one and don’t have to feel anything in particular but it’s inevitable that we seek out groups where we feel that we fit. She can have sent a great bunch of queer/trans people - there are such things. I look a bit like a butch lesbian stereotype and have always enjoyed a night out with that crowd. I fit right in except for the sex bit.

Like the house buying anecdote above signals she is a very privileged woman who gets over indulged and is self indulgent because of that. She also gets asked for her opinion a lot. I wouldn’t place any expectation of it being overly interesting just because some of her characters are themselves quite engaging.

How insufferable. 'A gay man' I mean seriously so she likes her hair short and isn't into 'feminine' things and she thinks that makes her a man. You can see why she is so supportive of the whole trans thing.

If actors can't conduct an interview without making tits of themselves they should stop promotion stuff just stick to acting although she seems to play the same character in everything she's in so calling it acting is a stretch.

The acting world has long been completely captured. Can see how it happens; performance art has a lot of alternative people in it who want to be avant garde, actors do tend to be a bit bonkers and of course, acting is all about becoming, or pretending to become, something you're not and sweep people up in it. Quite literally about roles and playing them, so I can see how it isn't a big jump for nutty people to go from "playing the role of Hamlet as I interpret it on stage" to "playing the role of a woman as I imagine it in real life". Obviously the issue here is that woman isn't a role and you don't play it, but like I said, I can see why a nutty person who's big on pretending to be other people and being all alternative could miss that.

They are supposed to realise they're only pretending though, and casting is brutal for being clear on what people actually are or are not. They really do usually understand, for example, why 55 year old men aren't cast as Juliet. Some roles are more fluid but most of them require a man or woman of a particular age and aesthetic. Even if you want to do something nuts like cast a man as Lady Macbeth, you aren't proving men can be women. You're literally proving that you know Lady Macbeth is a woman, the actor is a man and you know the difference.

Exact. I never thought KB would do the pick me I'm cool dance, as she seems to have a sound BS radar when it comes to men talking various shite - but for some reason that part of her radar has malfunctioned.

'Actually it’s not a struggle for me to think she didn’t feel very womanly in a business where the beauty standard is so high and represents an ideal tha she doesn’t fit'

Oh please. She seems to be of average intelligence surely she knows being a woman isn’t abut long bouffant hair and lipgloss?! How depressing that she's got as far as she has if she does.

Why publicise your innermost thoughts? What an idiot.

What a load of bollocks and, what's more, she knows it's a load of bollocks and if she doesn't know that it's a load of bollocks then she should spend some time in a padded cell until she does know it's a load of bollocks! 😀

She would have got the same effect if she'd gone to a public place, lifted her head to the skies and bellowed 'Loook at meee!! Loook at meee! I'm so interesting!!!' but she has unfortunately chosen to immortalise her navel gazing announcement to print.

On the other hand, the cringeness of the whole thing will undoubtedly help with teenagers turning away from the whole enby/non binary nonsense because there's nothing like announcing you're so unique and special to find everyone's doing it.

How can she think anyone is interested in her bizarre ramblings?

Wow how homophobic and sexist. This isn't cool or trendy. It's just trotting out offensive stereotypes.

Exactly what you'd expect from someone in the creative and performing arts. The groupthink is so embedded, yet they think they're being edgy and taking risks.

I note that one of the lead actors is daughter (sorry, child) of the director. So nepotism in the mix too.

Think I'll give this one a swerve.