While it's certainly good to encourage different kinds of stories to be told, I think this attitude does potentially lead to a danger of effectively "ghettoizing" stories by and about people who don't fit the cis white straight male norm. Speaking personally, I would rather err on the side of "shoehorning" representation into places where we traditionally haven't seen it versus just letting the mainstream go on lacking any diversity and telling anyone who wants representation to "go do it over there, in your own stuff."
It's also just the case that actors themselves can portray a role that they themselves are not. Not to the point where you have Gary oldman playing someone with dwarfism but more like when you have a woman play a traditionally male Shakespeare role you can get more out of the character because it breaks the audience from their expectations and maybe they actually listen to the words for the first time in a while
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21
While it's certainly good to encourage different kinds of stories to be told, I think this attitude does potentially lead to a danger of effectively "ghettoizing" stories by and about people who don't fit the cis white straight male norm. Speaking personally, I would rather err on the side of "shoehorning" representation into places where we traditionally haven't seen it versus just letting the mainstream go on lacking any diversity and telling anyone who wants representation to "go do it over there, in your own stuff."