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so i'm sure a lot of you will have heard the argument from wokies that the only people who
should play certain roles with certain identities are actors with those identities that is
gay characters should only be played by gay actors that's the main one same with trans characters
and the same with various races the reason given for this particularly when it comes to
sexual orientation and gender identity is those identities have a very particular set
of experiences and feelings and as such a hetero non-trans actor just wouldn't be able to capture
the essence of the character that's ridiculous obviously a good actor can absolutely capture the
essence of a character with a different identity to them that's the whole point of acting some
of the best performances of gay characters have come from straight actors and conversely some of
the best straight performances have been given by gay actors it has nothing to do with identity and
everything to do with talent if that attitude had been in place throughout the history of hollywood
we would have missed out on some of the best performances in history now when it comes to
race that is a slightly different issue for obvious reasons i mean you're not going to
cast a caucasian person to play martin luther king but when it comes to other races sometimes
there's a bit of leniency for example there have been many caucasian actresses who have played the
puerto rican maria in west side story like the lovely natalie wood and conversely there have
been many asian actresses who have played eponine who is french in le miserable like the incredible
lea salonga so what i'm saying is that now and then with the exception of casting white actors
to play black roles for obvious reasons there's been a bit of room to kind of mix and match when
it comes to casting different races so the issue really in casting is sexuality and gender rather
than race because people don't tend to walk around with signs that say gay or non-binary or trans on
their foreheads therefore you should absolutely be able to cast straight actors in gay roles and vice
versa if they are good actors but not according to the identity politics brigade although something
tells me they're probably not bothered by gay actors being given hetero roles wokies have never
been known for their consistency a fact that became very clear in this dear prudence entry
let's read shall we during the pandemic i joined an online theater community where we
read through plays and musicals on zoom some read-throughs require auditions some we just
allocate roles randomly but we generally agree that for characters that are people of color or
are not cisgender and when those identities are important to the story we should reserve those
roles for people with those identities and this is the problem with being a woke theater group
when it comes to casting especially if you have a limited talent pool this attitude really cuts you
off at the knees as this advice asking thespian is about to discover i write to you because i am
concerned about a friend i made when i joined this group taylor when i met taylor taylor had
a different name and pronouns when someone announced they were doing a read-through
with a non-binary character taylor asked to play this character but was told they could only play
the part if they weren't on binary the next day they announced they are non-binary oh wow
i usually would give someone like this the benefit of the doubt
people come out at different times and for different reasons which i completely respect
however it turns out that before i met taylor they also wanted to play roles for latinx people think
characters in west side story and in the heights when turned down they suddenly came back with dna
results suggesting their grandmother had an affair and now they have ancestry in argentina brazil
and colombia on a different note taylor used to call themselves an atheist and they were offended
by statements like thoughts and prayers now taylor wears a hijab claims to be muslim and posts a lot
about their experiences with islamophobia after only publicly being muslim for a day
this coincides with their interest in casting and doing read-throughs of shows about
middle eastern people so i think you can clearly see what is happening here this taylor person is
the ultimate troll they are obviously fully aware of the woke dogma that one you can
identify as anything when it comes to gender and two when it comes to not just gender but
all identities you cannot question somebody else's truth even if that supposed truth is obviously
fraudulent to question someone else's identity or truth always amounts to some sort of bigotry in
progressive land and you'll get horribly bullied if you do it so taylor who really seems to love
acting is absolutely taking advantage of this set of rules not just the fact that you can identify
as pretty much whatever you want nowadays but the fact that nobody is allowed to question it
as we can see from the advice oscar talking about giving taylor the benefit of the doubt
pure genius let's continue taylor who is in their early twenties also claims to be a cancer survivor
have had a heart attack a rare disorder where they cannot eat anything with iron or they faint
several stalker ex-boyfriends etc i would believe any one of these things some people
have it really hard in life but the convenience of the identity trays for getting cast in shows is a
little suspicious to me especially when compounded with all these other claims to top it off they
recently posted a status asking people to stop lying about identity trays for clout like i said
taylor is the ultimate troll they are gaming the system and i'm loving it as someone who actually
is a person of color and lgbtq plus and has faced discrimination as a result of these things
i can't help but be offended that someone would try to get ahead by claiming these identities
however i wonder if i'm being too hard on taylor do you think all these things may be true
if they're probably lies should i address this with them should i keep casting them in roles
they claim they are eligible for should i be avoiding this person altogether wow
with this incident taylor has well and truly exposed the the gaping floor in
this progressive insistence that only people of particular identities can play particular roles
coupled with the principle that you can idea identify as anything you want and nobody's
allowed to question it i mean kudos to taylor is all i can say and honestly to this person
asking for advice what did they think was going to happen if they kept pushing this set of
progressive rules so they really think that nobody is going to take advantage of it really so how did
dear prudence respond heavens to murgatroyd there is a lot happening here which on one hand seems
apropos for a theater company i say this with love and experience as a playwright the drama
and the storytelling always cross the proscenium even when the proscenium is a zoom screen there's
no way of knowing what's true in taylor's life and what's let's say an affectation a lot of people go
through periods of trying on new identities those that aren't immutable like race background etc in
a quest to find themselves so it's right to give them the benefit of the doubt see what i mean even
dear prudence is covering herself but just because taylor is on a journey doesn't mean you need to be
a passenger there's probably nothing to be gained from confronting taylor about the pattern you're
noticing but see if you can find ways of not working together the issue for the group isn't
taylor's identity it's how they're showing up in the casting process so when you're casting widen
your net within the group and see if there are other actors who would work in the roles and if
you're doing readings of shows in which taylor is the only person who could play a certain character
it's worthwhile to diversify the group anyway so that was a bit of a non-answer from prudence but
honestly can you blame her prudence is a wookie an advice columnist or not she can't really go beyond
the boundaries of wokism the social consequences are way too dire well thank you for watching
the latest installment of dear prudence i do hope you enjoyed it until next time my friends
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