-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Scarlett Johansson Says She Has the Right to Portray ‘Any Person’ She Wants
- Thread starter T'Chakku
- Start date
Iron Man did it.
Iron Man gets a pass... I don't understand why people post this as justification for appropriation or stereotyping/black/whateverface...
--
I feel like, if you're an artist trying to portray a well written character in good faith and are not trying to perpectuate some negative stereotype or narrative, then the judgment you receive should be based on your ability to nail the part. In other words, if you want to try a Kirk Lazarus or a Miss Doubtfire, you best be able to back that up with some real acting chops and good writing. That said, I find it difficult to reconcile this with just casting a character with someone who's already "like" the character. Like... why not cast a PoC, gay or trans person to portray a PoC, gay or trans character, rather than someone who isn't any of those things? Name recognition alone? Why not boost the names of the people who are actually "like" the characters? Kirk Lazarus is an exception only because the meta commentary there (not trying to deify Ben Stiller's writing, either, here) - like the character is written a white person playing a black person. That's VERY tongue-in-cheek, and I don't see this being attempted ever again short of a sequel.
No one forced her to accept those roles. She could have said no, she SHOULD have said no...
Casting directors are much smaller fries with much smaller liberty. The only face that anyone gives a fuck about is Scarlett anyways.
Has she had every type of White role? She literally could be bored of playing White people at this point in her career.
She's not incorrect but she's wrong for accepting the roles
Right
She was all set to play Dante Gill, a trans man, before people called her out.
See, people will use The Little Mermaid as an excuse to give her a pass. She needs to be more self aware.
probably because if you're saying something like this after having apologized for it before it looks extra bad. also her production company was on the project.
Okay. Can she be Scarlett Johansson as a Scarlett Johansson that is self-aware of her words and actions? Or is that too much for her to comprehend?
She's right though. Although, extremely defensive and poorly articulated.
If they offer her a role she has the right to take it. How many actors are on record turning down roles so they go to minorities? Yeah she could've done that but I mean if they like their job they shouldn't have to turn it down? I disagree with the angle being taken in this thread. If your casting GiTS, Scar Jo shouldn't even be considered.
I blame the people who wanted her in the first place. Reminds me of the Nadine and Laura Bailey incident. Same with Zoe S. and Nina Simone (she's not dark enough!). Disney is at least addressing this in their live action remakes.
If they offer her a role she has the right to take it. How many actors are on record turning down roles so they go to minorities? Yeah she could've done that but I mean if they like their job they shouldn't have to turn it down? I disagree with the angle being taken in this thread. If your casting GiTS, Scar Jo shouldn't even be considered.
I blame the people who wanted her in the first place. Reminds me of the Nadine and Laura Bailey incident. Same with Zoe S. and Nina Simone (she's not dark enough!). Disney is at least addressing this in their live action remakes.
Not only that, RDJr was actually playing a white guy. His entire character is mocking what ScarJo is proposing in the OP.
Marvel movies are art. Let's not be elitists here.
Doesn't mean all art is good or has inherent substance because it's art though.
It's because she keeps having the same problem come up over and over where she doesn't get the "yes anyone can theoretically play anyone, but use some common sense" aspect of it. She's oblivious to the point that "is she actually just too dense to even understand the argument?" is a valid question.
She was in Jungle Book and is probably thinking of that. The optics aren't great, but context, eh?
Society never was as connected as she appears to believe. Unless, perhaps, she is considering the reverberations of hundreds of years of violence and intimidation knotting people to the same landmass by force. But I doubt that.
He thought he would never find love. She just wanted some water. He got drunk and took a piss on a tree. Coming next summer, a rom com that'll make you laugh your heart out! Adam Sandler and Scarlett Johansson Star in..
Oops, I fell in love with a tree!
Oops, I fell in love with a tree!
I believe so. I don't see any real kind of consequences in that setting though
I think you kind of have to switch perspective to understand what these people think.
They feel the other side is hypocritical because only white people are singled out.
So the Little Mermaid can be black but a white woman can't be the colonel.
Lots of white people legitimately feel persecuted because they can feel their waning influence in society. It's not cool to be white anymore in their heads.
In general, white people can't come to grips with the fact that if the character's race is of consequence to the character, they either shouldn't be playing it, or they're going to be playing a villain.
I know this is some sort of 2000's fun fun. But when you have Robert Redford, Annette Benning and Glenn Close and now academy award winner, Brie Larson in the MCU, these takes just ring a bit hollow.
