Rebel Wilson has ideas on casting LGBT roles.
During an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs launched on Sunday, the Australian actress was requested if she feels ladies can get away with edgier jokes than males. She dished:
“I’ve definitely said a lot of edgy jokes, and said them sometimes in very public places like the BAFTAs. Yeah I don’t think there’s a different standard, it’s more this thing about — if you are something then now you’re allowed to joke about it.”
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The 44-year-old continued:
“So say, if you are overweight, you can say jokes. But if you’re not [you can’t] that’s kind of what’s currently happening. So it’s not really gendered.”
But in the case of LGBT roles in movie and TV, the Pitch Perfect star thinks casting ought to NOT be restricted to actors who establish the identical approach as a given character:
“I think that’s hard. It’s going into this territory of like saying, ‘Well, only straight actors can play straight roles, and gay actors can play gay roles,’ which I think is total nonsense. I think you should be able to play any role that you want.”
Inneresting! There’s undoubtedly one thing to be mentioned for reserving homosexual roles for brazenly homosexual actors who traditionally don’t get as many alternatives, although!
It’s been nearly two years since Rebel got here out and launched followers to her love Ramona Agruma. Innerestingly, she revealed in December 2022 that her on-screen kiss with a girl in 2022’s The Almond and the Seahorse was not solely her first kiss with a girl EVER, however that the second is what in the end “opened” her coronary heart to having extra intimate experiences with different ladies!
Soooo, the query is, the place do YOU stand on this debate, Perezcious readers?? Let us know within the feedback down under!
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