{"id":1394907,"date":"2022-03-22T18:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394907"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:59:42","slug":"nolte-andrew-garfield-says-straight-actors-should-be-allowed-to-portray-gay-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-andrew-garfield-says-straight-actors-should-be-allowed-to-portray-gay-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Andrew Garfield Says Straight Actors Should Be Allowed to Portray Gay Characters"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fnolte-andrew-garfield-says-straight-actors-should-be-allowed-to-portray-gay-characters%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=1394907&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actor Andrew Garfield says straight actors (like himself) should be allowed to portray gay characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s two different conversations getting conflated,\u201d Garfield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/0\/andrew-garfield-let-people-play-exactly-itll-death-imagination\/\">said<\/a> in an interview with the <em>Telegraph<\/em>:<\/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<blockquote>\n<p>One is about equality of opportunity, and I\u2019m completely in on that. Because we should want a world in which no matter your sexual orientation, your color or your heritage, everyone gets a fair whack. But the other is about empathic imagination, and if we only allow people to be cast as exactly who they are, it\u2019ll be the death of it. So, the two separate conversations have to happen simultaneously. Because I\u2019m not willing to support the death of empathic imagination. It\u2019s what we need most as a culture, and it\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s going to save us right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can see why, in 2022 America, a straight actor would want access to portraying homosexuals. What else is there to play anymore? Everyone\u2019s gay. Every time I make the mistake of tuning into a contemporary TV show or movie, someone\u2019s being gay.<\/p>\n<p>Just last night, because he was a complicated genius and a fascinating man, I made the mistake of tuning into Netflix\u2019s new documentary about Andy Warhol. Obviously, I knew all about Warhol\u2019s homosexuality in advance, but this dreadful documentary, the latest piece of shit from producer Ryan Murphy, was <em>only interested<\/em> in his sexuality. Tedious doesn\u2019t begin to describe it. I shut it off after 2.5 hours, and there were 3.5 hours left to go!<\/p>\n<p>What I wonder, though, is why is <em>this<\/em> considered the one exception? Why is the only identity exception homosexuality? Why can straight guys play gay guys, but Aaron Sorkin caught heat for casting Javier Bardem as Ricky Ricardo? Apparently, Bardem was the <em>wrong kind<\/em> of Hispanic or something.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The whole thing is stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Actors are supposed to play characters and roles different from themselves. To typecast them as who they already are is absurd. So what if a Jew plays an Italian or an Italian plays an Indian or an Indian plays an Irishman? As long as the portrayal is respectful, who cares?<\/p>\n<p>Should Mickey Rooney be running around with cartoonish buck teeth and thick glasses mocking Asians in <em>Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>? That\u2019s a bit much. If you want to have fun with Asian stereotypes, hire a genius like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burt_Kwouk\">Burt Kwouk<\/a>. But the idea that there was something wrong with hiring a Paul Muni and a Luise Rainer to portray Chinese peasants in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Good_Earth_(film)\">The Good Earth<\/a><\/em> (1937), a respectful portrayal that never once veers into condescension or stereotype, is absurd.<\/p>\n<p>This whole country is filled with fascist, virtue-signaling babies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Andrew Garfield says straight actors (like himself) should be allowed to portray gay characters. \u201cI think it\u2019s two different conversations getting conflated,\u201d Garfield said in an interview with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-1394907","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\/1394907","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394907\/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=1394907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}