{"id":1134672,"date":"2021-12-20T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1134672"},"modified":"2021-12-20T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:34:37","slug":"aaron-sorkin-blasts-woke-casting-based-on-race-mother-of-all-empty-gestures-and-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaron-sorkin-blasts-woke-casting-based-on-race-mother-of-all-empty-gestures-and-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Sorkin Blasts Woke Casting Based on Race: &#039;Mother of All Empty Gestures and a Bad Idea&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faaron-sorkin-blasts-woke-casting-based-on-race-mother-of-all-empty-gestures-and-a-bad-idea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1134672&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aaronsorkinrecardos1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Hollywood writer-director Aaron Sorkin is once again defending his casting choice of Spain\u2019s Javier Bardem to play the Cuban-born Desi Arnaz in the Amazon Studios movie <em>Being the Ricardos<\/em>, saying casting based on race is the \u201cmother of all empty gestures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that woke casting amounts to \u201cresegregating ourselves\u201d over characteristics that are \u201cnot actable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In an interview with&nbsp;the Britain\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sunday Times Culture<\/em> magazine, Aaron Sorkin responded to continued backlash he is facing for casting a Spanish actor to play a Cuban character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this notion that only gay actors should play gay characters? That only a Cuban actor should play Desi? Honestly, I think it\u2019s the mother of all empty gestures and a bad idea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.352380952381\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou can act being attracted to someone, but can\u2019t act gay or straight. So this notion that only gay actors should play gay characters? That only a Cuban actor should play Desi? Honestly, I think it\u2019s the mother of all empty gestures and a bad idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sunday Times Culture (@ST_Culture) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ST_Culture\/status\/1472484341884362756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sorkin said it is \u201cheartbreaking\u201d and \u201ca little chilling\u201d to see artists \u201cresegregating ourselves\u201d over characteristics like race.&nbsp;\u201cThis should be the last place there are walls,\u201d he said. \u201cSpanish and Cuban are not actable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Being the Ricardos - Official Trailer | Prime Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvrjCdtB0zM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Sorkin also defended Gina Carano, saying the actress didn\u2019t deserve to be fired from Disney+ series <em>The Mandalorian<\/em> for publicly comparing how conservatives are treated today with being Jewish during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could rebut some things she said, but I don\u2019t think she should lose her job because of it,\u201d he told the newspaper. \u201cOn the other hand, if they\u2019re losing advertisers because she\u2019s on the show, that\u2019s different. That\u2019s life in a democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sorkin previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/11\/aaron-sorkin-rejects-woke-casting-demands-spaniards-can-play-cubans-gay-and-straight-arent-actable\/\">defended<\/a> his casting of Bardem last month in an <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/aaron-sorkin-nicole-kidman-lucille-ball-javier-bardem-being-the-ricardos-interview-1235045467\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">interview<\/a> with <em>The Hollywood Reporter&nbsp;<\/em>in which he said there is nothing offensive about a Spanish actor playing a Cuban character.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood writer-director Aaron Sorkin is once again defending his casting choice of Spain\u2019s Javier Bardem to play the Cuban-born Desi Arnaz in the Amazon Studios movie Being the Ricardos, saying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}