LA confidential And souvenir Star Guy Pearce has issued a lengthy apology following a tweet about the debate surrounding the role of trans actors.
Pearce, whose breakthrough role as a drag queen came up The Adventures by Priscilla, Queen of the Desertquestioned the debate surrounding trans actors playing both trans and non-trans characters in a tweet that has since been deleted.
Pearce wrote: “One question – if only people are allowed to play trans people, then we’re also suggesting that only trans people can play trans characters. Surely that would limit your career as an actor? Isn’t it an actor’s goal to make someone outside to be able to play their own world?”
He then went into discussion with several respondents and discussed the roles available to transaction partners, saying it was “a very different point” than the one he was making.
Today, he sent a lengthy letter on Twitter in which he “sincerely apologizes for just grossly targeting an already harassed minority”.
He said he understood his question was “insensitive” and that his point was to “defend the definition of acting and nothing more… It was unnecessary to throw the issue at a minority group, especially a guy like me.” , with a full house of privileges.”
Pearce said “none of this is easy” but raised the point after “a lot of people” asked him if “gays should have played”. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert since its release in 1994. “Similar discussions are happening about trans actors and trans roles,” he added.
Pearce said he doesn’t believe artists should have their “personal identity, sexual orientation, political opinion, disability, religious belief, etc.” would have to reveal to get work, but conceded: “It’s clear that a large number of small communities are underrepresented on screen, as are their actors from those communities.”
He said the debate made him “think more about acting and its place in the world,” adding: “Our industry is already a cesspool of politics, a hybrid of seat funding, nepotism and nepotism.”
Source: Deadline
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