Such a shame to see Hollywood and the left cannibalising each other with utter stupidity.
Hot on the heels of Scarlet Johanson pulling out of a film role because she was PLAYING a transgender ROLE because the LGBT community went into meltdown because the ACTING job didn't go to a transgender actor. Now, the Rock is getting criticism because he ACTED in a roll as a disabled person and now this is being deemed offensive by some.
The stupidity knows no bounds. Oh the virtues of identity politics and PC. The wonderful slippery slope of leftist ideology. Next, Rape victims can only act in rape victim rolls, Sean Penn will have his Oscar stripped from him for his role as Harvey Milk because he wasn't gay and Forest Gump will be a disgraced and erased from our history because Forest Gump's bigoted role as a man who was not only mentally challenged, but was also a polio victim. Wow, what a disgusting man who should be shamed for life.
Is Dwayne Johnson's disabled role in Skyscraper 'offensive'?
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Hollywood stars have been criticised for taking roles away from transgender and disabled actors. Should minorities on-screen only be represented by minority actors?
Last week, Scarlett Johansson stepped down from a her role as a transgender man following a backlash from the LGBT community.
A few days later, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was branded hypocritical for calling for more disabled actors on-screen while also taking on the lead role of Will Sawyer - an FBI agent with a prosthetic leg - in his new film Skyscraper.
In this sensitised climate, the traditional belief that acting is founded on portraying someone you're not, is being denounced to the point of toxicity.
This certainly proved the case for journalist Daniella Greenbaum, who wrote a column for Business Insider defending Johansson's right to play a trans man.
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