Isn’t the point of acting, being believable at something you are not.
So BryanCranston can act a meth dealer, an accountant for Pablo and more, but a quad in a wheelchair and suddenly people are up in arms (where this is possible). He is an ACTOR. Give roles to the best candidate and let them act that part.
I know this may surprise people, but what if Bryan Cranston was actually the best person for the job and there aren't many quadriplegic actors in Hollywood? He produced a show that employed a disabled character who was never treated as such for 5 full seasons?
Why are you making this out to be news? Who's complained?
Mrs doubtfire 🤷🏼♂️
Hey, what about Mark Wahlberg! He never should've taken the role of Dirk Diggler. It's outrageous that they didn't give an actor with a real 13 inch cck a chance. Wasn't Wahlberg in The Happening too? They couldn't even cast fucking wind with actual wind in that film.
Here we go again. The ever-growing band of anal retentives flying the silly PC flag.
What freaking difference does it make the man is working to support himself which is more than I can say for some
He’s an actor, a brilliant actor. Why are you questioning his casting? Absurd. He wasn’t a drug addicted psycho when he made his name in Breaking Bad - where was the press? If you’d asked him to play a black man, sure. But this backlash represents how low we’ve sunk. PC gone mad
What if a character in a show has an accident and is confined to a wheelchair? Must that role be then recast? This is all very silly noe!!!
It happened with Scarlett Johansson last year with Rub & Tug and people were angry because she wasn't trans. Then Claudia Kim with Fantastic Beasts and now Bryan Cranston in The Upside. The people complaining don't understand how acting works. They are never ever satisfied.
Why should he? IT’S ACTING
Isnt this what acting is about
i wonder i charlie sheen would get the job if philadelphia was being cast now ?
Lol taking a disabled persons job
Shocking, this has been going on for decades, I only just found out Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis has both hands! If you look carefully in The gangs of New York you can clearly see them. The nerve of it! /sarcasm
Is that an Oscar I see him receiving? How brave he is!! It’s all bullshit. When will disabled actors be given the chance to play these roles or indeed be seen as ‘actors’ too rather than just disabled characters. That’s the BIG question
Really? Reaching too far
Charlie Cox in Daredevil. Not really blind. Absolute travesty.
How many quadriplegic actors turned up to audition?
It's all getting a bit silly now, isn't it? Give some people a bit of internet and look where we end up. Yeah, Tim Berners-Lee - LOVIN' YOUR WORK!
Yeah, they should have hired an actual drug kingpin to play Walter White as well.
Reality TV is rubbing its hands together
FFS who’s offended now?
A sure sign we have evolved beyond usefulness.
I would like to apologise to the shepherds whose role I took when I was in my primary school Nativity Play. I am truly sorry I portrayed a section of society who I have no link to, I could try to defend myself by saying I was only 6 but that's no excuse. I hope you can forgive me
Do we have to say Philadelphia was bad because Tom Hanks did not have HIV and Denzel Washington is not really a lawyer? Film are a business and need to cast big stars to draw in more punters to watch it. These stars can show a realistic well researched portrail of the condition.
The BBC promoting clickbait. 😅
He's an actor ffs. Judge him on his ability to make you believe in the characters disability. Not that he's actually able-bodied.
wait a minute. didn't he have cancer and had to make drugs to stay alive? that classifies him as disabled, right? he even had to shave his head and change his name. that counts for something, damn it!
So we can’t have non disabled actors play disabled roles now? Says who? 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Shouldn’t need to ‘defend’ anything. He’s an actor. It’s like saying Brian May should have played Brian May in BR. 🙄
Is this actually a discussion, shouldn't have to defend anything, Dustin Hoffman rain man?
What flake raised this issue? Stalone should never of played Rambo, does De Niro really know how to drive a taxi? And Schwarzenegger shouldn't of been a T-101 without understanding how a Terminator really feels inside.
He’s an actor...he’s acting....please snowflakes, just curl up in a corner and hug your teddy bears.
Are actors not allowed to act?
I’m a paraplegic. I have no problem with this.
Bastards! Should have broke his legs for authenticity.
OMG - this is not news bbc! it cant be that quiet on the actual news front?
He should never have got the role. Likewise Daniel Day Lewis in my left foot. Turns out he's right footed. Disgrace!
Is anyone criticising Kevin Hart for playing a non-black man? Asking for a friend..
Should we criticise Tom Hanks for playing a character with a learning disability in 'Forrest Gump'? What about the stellar performance by Leonardo DiCaprio in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' when he was only a child actor?
He’s an actor, FFS. He doesn’t have to defend anything. No one asks the the black Hamilton stars why they play white historical figures.
Once again, it's called acting. An actor assumes the role of his/her character. Should Trevor Reznik have been played by someone with anorexia in The Machinist? Should Bruce Wayne be played by someone naturally muscular in Batman? It's acting. It's make-believe. Calm down.
Actors play characters. It's called acting. Sometimes actors wear wigs if their colour is not that of the character. For fucks sake, stop demanding a sanitised, bland world. If an able-bodied actor portrays the character better, give them the role.
I’ve heard that a non messiah will be playing Jesus in a new film. This is outrageous.
I like it how they use the word 'defend' as if he has done something wrong in the first place
Wow, its almost like he’s acting 🤭
This is ACTING, guys! May the best actor win the role. Jeez!
Don’t think this guy is working!!
Good luck to whichever woman decides to play James Bond though!
Really.....have you guys run out of real stories !
Actor defends playing character. BS. They are bloody actors, that's what they do, pretend to be something they are not.
This is just ridiculous, he’s an actor!
Apparently the bloke that plays Harry Potter isn't even a real wizard.
He is an actor. Actors portray people unlike them. It’s a skill.
How about all those great folks getting paid to be on disability who jog to their fucking cars on their way to play 18 holes. I'm sure he'll get a cart though. Can't be too careful. Jesus, really? Breaking Bad, explain this shit before we all lose it.
I'm still angry Tom Hanks played a man with a HIV
He shouldn’t have to defend anything. He’s doing his job - acting! The world’s gone mad!
Welcome to the world of stupid we all now live in.
Rainman?
No more WW2 dramas if they can’t get actual 20 year olds who were there. They’re gonna have to think about exhuming and reanimating Henry VIII for a historical movie.
If we extend this logic to movie death scenes things are going to get . . . awkward 😇
Here we go again
Well he has never had lung cancer either but stuck to playing a guy with that for five years.
Casting Steven Hawking in his biopic is going to be tricky then.
Why not just end acting all together and only produce documentaries? SMH! This crap is getting ridiculous. It’s called acting for a reason.
It’s disgraceful that Rock Hudson played all those straight parts throughout his career.
‘Actor apologizes for acting’
Political correctness goes to far sometimes, he is an actor fgs let him act!
He's an Actor and that's what actors do duh they act out a character.
Eddie Redmayne portrayed Stephen Hawking brilliantly and received an Oscar, how is this any different?
Quite possibly one of the most ridiculous topics of discussion of the day
How about getting real murderers and police officers to play themselves in future movies? I think the disabled should rather fight for roles beyond their disability. More opportunities that way.
Look Who's Talking.
Come off it. Seriously, how long is this nonsense going to go on?
What's the fuss, actors play parts that are not themselves. That's why it's called acting!
There are occasions when a disabled actor may be available to play a role or sometimes they might not be or might not be interested in the role itself for some reason. So are we now at a stage where if a character say is in a wheelchair with only one arm, unless you can find
Why is this an issue? Charlie Cox plays a blind man in dare devil and he isnt blind... As long as the portrayal is accurate should he not in fact be commended for taking on a role that may raise awareness of the issues faced by those with the same condition his character has?
Raymond Burr played Ironside, a wheelchair bound detective, and nobody had a problem with that! It was aired from 1967 to 1975!
I'm more troubled by the fact that the article refers to Kevin Hart as a 'comedian'.
This is pathetic what happens if you play a character that becomes disabled half way thru a story do we need 2 actors ffs
So Michael Caine WASN'T a member of the Nazi party in The Eagle has Landed 🤔
Meanwhile in France GILETSJAUNES
The guys an actor it's his job. Film makers need to make money, it's their job, so they need to hire the best actors they can. If they hire an unknown and actor whos not the best they can can ahold of, then film wont sell as many tickets. Harsh but true.
vindiesel what were you thinking playing Groot? You're not really a tree!!
I’m also outraged that the star of Gladiator wasn’t a 2000 year old Spaniard and the Predator wasn’t played by an actual alien. Disgusting 🤢
***SHOCK HORROR*** Blond to be played by a redhead. ***READ ALL ABOUT IT***
So Idris Elba can’t be James Bond......? 🤔
Every actor that’s played someone with a serious mental illness is worried right now..
He's an actor, it's the job of an actor to play something they are not.
He is an “actor” ffs .... that’s his job
Whilst it would be lovely for more representation of all minority groups in movies, theatre and the arts, if ppl are going to place restrictions then 'acting' loses its meaning and ppl will only be able to play themselves or a role that is tied to their sexuality, religion, creed
He also played a Meth dealer and he's not a Meth dealer! This guy doesn't stop taking rolls from the underrepresented! Don't even get me started on Malcom in The Middle! WeNeedMoreMethDealersPlayingTheRollOfMethDealersInFilmAndTV
Why does he need to defend this, it's called acting🙄
Is that not the point of being an actor?
BBCWorld it's wrong that these actors are being made to feel bad because they are doing their job.
Lol he’s an actor he’s supposed to act!
He shouldn't have to defend himself. He is an actor ffs, so let him act maybe he's just the best man for the role! Good grief!
What's the world coming to when an actor has to defend playing a CHARACTER😑
He's ACTING!!!! Unbelievable..
And rightly so, well done, Brian. This is all getting out of hand. PC bullshit rears it's head again!!! Crap like this is what pushes people to extreme spectrums politically
This why they are called actors. They show us characters. When will this stupidity end?
An actor? Acting? Next you'll be telling us that Charlton Heston wasn't Moses, Jesus or El Cid.
What a lot of pc nonsense, an actor's role is to portray other people and their lives, not be a mirror of their personal life. Where will this idiocy stop?
He's a fucking actor!
Daniel Day Lewis........ my left foot..... end of
Yaaaaawwwwwnnnnn
It's called acting.
Outrageous! This is the second time he’s portrayed something he’s not. Fancy playing a chemist drug maker when you’re not! Appalling I don’t know what the worlds coming too. 😲
How dare Eddie Redmayne be Cast as Stephen Hawking?!?!?
At no point has Kevin Hart apologised for his comments. In fact, he has actively blamed the LGBTQ community for being 'too sensitive'. Maybe try doing some journalism?
😂😂 it's called acting for a reason
People need to get a grip
You mean that wasn’t actually Stephen Hawkins in The Theory of Everything?
Definitely not playing Long John Silver if I have to have a leg amputated.
Remake of Untouchable with the lead played by an able bodied person, don't remember any issues then
It’s called acting for a reason.
Shouldn't need to defend it. Actors are picked based on talent and experience, not disability, gender, sexuality etc. Just because a role matches you physical, sexually etc does not entitle you to that role.
All this PC bullshit is going way too far, the operative word is 'actor' they fucking act. I don't know of any aliens we could use for sci fy find either!
Actor acting apologies for acting shocker.
I believe it’s what they call acting.
I want certified Lesbians in my next Hollywood Film...none of these Netball Weekender Sleep Over cum Rosie O'Donnell types!
They are actors, this is getting ridiculous.
I’ll say it again. Exactly WHO are these offendatrons?! Where are they?
Niel Patrick Harris - a gay man - plays a womenising straight man in how I met your mother. Eddie Redmayne played Stephen Hawking. lou ferrigno - hearing impaired - played the Incredible Hulk who had incredible hearing. Nobody minds. Do news better please.
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I’m disgusted with Star Wars - apparently they used a Human in a costume for Chewbacca instead of a real Wookie - there are thousands of Wookies out of work on their home world of Kashyyyk.
worlds gone mad
Why does he have to defend that?
Doctor Who will be in a bloody wheelchair next and I WONT BE WATCHING 😡🇬🇧watp
Isn’t it called ‘acting’?
You might be shocked to learn that he didnt have cancer either...
Manufactured outrage, also the line about more gay men playing straight roles is quite funny when taken with a more historical view of actors hiding their sexuality because of prejudice.
Ridiculous argument. So by the same token only murderers can portray murderers only paedophiles can portray paedophiles!
Actor defends acting
Man takes acting role in scandal shocker
Actors play roles. End of. Move on.
As long as the role is played faithfully and the actor doesn’t take the piss, why should it matter?
Not even going to read this article. HES AN ACTOR!
No need to defend himself - but worthy of discussion - and highlights opportunities for disabled actors. PC brigade should stop and think for awhile before slating actors who act!
No issue here. It’s the US remake of Intouchables may I remind.
They are trying to control us. Enough for this fascism.
I thought it was called acting....🤔🤔
Was My Left Foot a documentary?
Actor criticised for acting. Strange times. 🤔
Bryan Cranston should also have not killed Godzilla
The people 'outraged' at his role are just virtue signalling. It's ridiculous.
My wife suffers from MS & is in a wheelchair and we feel if the actor portrays what life is really like we can't see a problem. With having a 'star' play the part hopefully it will highlight the everyday problems disabled people have to go through.
They shouldn't have made this film. The French version is particularly good, even with English subtitles. Why do they have to remake everything?
Well, Gyllenhaal has form, if you want to call it that. 🙄
Why does he have to defend himself? Not even going to read this, the title is nonsense.
These whiners get more ridiculous by the day. Outrage because an ACTOR is going to ACT a part. He’s an ACTOR. That’s what they do. Give me strength. 🤷🏻♀️
I can see the argument that it is taking away from a disabled actor but hard truth is without an A Lister attached the story doesn't get told or succeed, the more disability becomes part of the mainstream the more roles will become available in future.
Actor acts
I am pretty sure BryanCranston wasn't a meth cooking former teacher before his role in breaking bad. I am not sure the fuckwhits getting offended by him playing a role know what acting means.
It’s his bloody job to ACT. It’s not reality, it’s ACTING. If the casting team found him to be most suitable then so be it. Maybe they’re hoping a big name will draw in more viewers and then more money🤷🏻♂️
Pretty sure it's called acting.
Been saying this all along, Bruce Willis should not have been in The Sixth Sense as he is not a ghost!
And couldn’t they have found a serial killer somewhere to have played the lead in the Versace drama instead of Darren Criss?
Hats off for going there, especially knowing how the Academy is about that
what a load of nonsense!! who does he even need to answer to for playing this role?
Ok seriously where the fuck are we heading towards
Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump Sean Penn - I Am Sam John Hurt - The Elephant Man Eddie Redmayne - Theory of Everything Colin Firth - The Kings Speech Professionals doing their job and doing it brilliantly.
Ridiculous that he has to defend it and this comes from the mother/carer of a severely disabled son for the last 23 years. I am yet to meet anyone in the disabled community who is genuinely offended by this!
Didn't this fellow jump from a burning skyscraper with just one leg itscalledacting did nobody watch the theory of everything who did they think that was about ffs 🤬
He can play who & what he jolly well likes. He does not need anyone's permission or approval. Next we're be saying an actor from humble beginnings & just starting out, can't play the role of a millionaire or the role of a Dr ,if they're not one.. Where's this madness end?
Oh FFS🤦🏼♂️ right that’s it, all acting of any kind is now officially banned. Actors can only play exact duplicates of themselves
Fur fuxsake don't watch Tootsie.
Actors should stop acting like something their not and just...wait what?
This is the state of the BBC these days. No point keeping the TV license anymore
The human race is bored. It needs some sort of extinction event.
Another publicity stunt! Throw something contentious out there and bring a mediocre TV program to the forefront.
I doubt anyone but some extremists actually care that he took the role
Why wouldn't he play a disabled person,he is an actor.
Never go full motorized wheelchair?
😂😂😂😂😂😂defends playing a fake person😂😂😂😂😂😂😂that’s why no more of my $$$ watches the 💩 that comes out of CA.
And why are living actors still allowed to play corpses? Equal rights for dead people!
The key thing for people to remember is these people are actors. They act roles. I didn't hear an uproar about him not being an actual meth dealer while in 'Breaking Bad'
Ridiculous. The argument is basically to type cast every actor then? They are actors. They portray a role.
I thought the whole point in acting as a profession was that you played someone you're not? only giving blind roles to blind people would have ruined Scent of a Woman. My left Foot would have not been the amazing film it was........ maybe?
But it goes too far won’t it actually hurt minority actors? A gay person would have the amount of roles cut down massively because there are less gay roles because there are less gay people. Wouldn’t that lead to gay people hiding their sexuality for work which is horrific
Under the New World Order, playing anyone but yourself will be illegal. As for 'colour blind casting' how come it only happens in one direction - surely Benedict Cumberbatch is a shoe-in for the remake of 'Shaft'?
He has to defend himself bc media enjoy making 🏔 out of molehills. stopFakeNews
Why would he have to? Isn’t this the definition of acting? LOL
If we carry on with this nonsense, do we criticise Anthony Hopkins for playing Lector? Should that role only go to serial killers who have changed careers and grabbed an Equity card?
I'm still in shock how they didn't cast a real astronaut for the lead in FirstManMovie Ryan Gosling should be ashamed! Acting should be banned. It's disgusting behaviour and there is no place for it in our new Triggered snowflake society. Welcome to the new World. It sucks.
He shouldn’t have played a disabled person if he wasn’t disabled. I also feel outraged he played a cancer sufferer in Breaking Bad without actually having cancer
“...the US actor plays a wheelchair-using billionaire who hires a former criminal, played by comedian Kevin Hart, to be his live-in carer. So, to avoid criticism, by rights, KevinHart4real must have a criminal record and also be DBS checked with disability care experience?
That’s what actors do
shouldn't have to defend yourself for playing a c h a r a c t e r, it's almost as if actors are paid to do so
Never say sorry to these people. Never ever do that. If you look across the list of celebs that apologise and the ones that tell them to fuck off it’s obvious who wins.
I am surprised the BBC can defend it's existence to anyone at this point. You fuckwads are still funded by an archaic tax that even your colonies have abandoned.
defends? Actor defends his decision to act.
Cyborg sues Schwarzenegger for playing a killer cyborg from the future.
Why is this an issue?
Is this that old French movie again. Instead of subtitling USA simply appropriates It has never really worked...
no one had a go at Denzil Washington when he did in the Bone Collector....
So only disabled people can play disabled people now?
He's an actor...
Shouldn't have to defend it....he's an actor!!
Why should you have to defend yourself FFS did anyone whine when Daniel Day Lewis played Christy Brown in My Left Foot
The clue is in the job title, he's an actor, they play other people.
actors, in the future, will only be able to play themselves.