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It's like trolling at this point


Lol, so this girl is the best for the part? Cmon guys...

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What's your criticism of her?

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You mean besides the moustache?

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Lol I was going to start a thread moustache or bad shadow?

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She doesn't look the part. Julia is considered one of the most beautiful girls in town. It's like casting the girl from "Hereditary" with the part.

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She doesn't look the part.


You think Juliet should be played by a thirteen year old girl? Or do you think Juliet should be played by a man as she would have been in the original production?

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Francesca surely appreciates your white knighting. But it's a PR stunt nonetheless. And it's already working.
https://bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68739588

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You didn't answer either of my questions.

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Why should I. You tried to be clever by reframing my initial remark. She doesn't look the part refers to her physical appearance or her lack thereof. I'd be perfectly fine with a good looking actress of color. Let's say Lupita Nyong'o or Nathalie Emmanuel. As much as I'd hate to see Maisie Williams in that part. But the producers know how to stir things up by deliberately choosing a butterface of color.

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Does she not resemble the part because she isn't a thirteen year old girl or because she is not a man?

Why are you singling out this actor among the many thousands of actors who have played the role of Juliet over the last several centuries who potentially do not 'resemble the part' -- including people who are not teenage girls and lots of people who were men?

Which part of this inquiry are you struggling with?

This isn't 'reframing' your initial remark; it's more exposing it as nonsense. But you're already aware that it's nonsense.

In any case, if you don't like this particular casting avoid the Duke of York Theatre during the show's run.Oh, you weren't going to be there anyway, you say? Shocked.

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Yeah. I think I'll pass. But I'm sure the race-baiting producers will appreciate your attendance.

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Oh, so you would have attended if they'd cast the role differently? The role you initially referred to as 'Julia'?

Of course, you were just getting this Shakespeare play confused with The Two Gentlemen of Verona weren't you, you little culture vulture you!

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The level of Smug Disingenuous Passive/Aggressive Bullshit in your question is off the charts.

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That doesn't mean anything to me. If you want to engage, engage like an adult -- or don't bother.

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"So, men love Hallie Barry and Vanessa Williams? Give them Lizzo and Zendaya. And if they complain call them waycist." - DEI Hollywood

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What exactly do you imagine the casting choices of a British theatre production company staging a play in the west end of London have to do with Hollywood?

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Both are under the control of DEI.

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So, the answer to my question is: nothing.

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Reading is hard for you.

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Thinking seems to be impossible for you. But no matter.

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DEI means forced Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Do you understand this conversation now?

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"capuchin" is obviously another corporate bot sent in here to make sane people question sanity.

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I wouldn't say Zendaya is particularly good looking but mentioning her in the same breath as Lizzo is extremely harsh.

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Damn, she's fucking hideous.

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They could at least hire a nice looking black actor for the part. Like this one.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942385/mediaviewer/rm2525463552?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_23

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lmao

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She's not that bad.

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Why do you care? Unless you were planning to go see this play, it doesn't affect you. There have been lots of other productions of Romeo and Juliet and there will be many more. I wouldn't have cast her personally, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

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Sadly a lot of people picture themselves in some sort of duel of the fates with heterosexual conservative white people (primarily men) on one side and literally everyone else on the other.

Many of these people actively search for things to get angry about. They cry when mermaids are black, they rant and rave when animated characters are homosexual, they get angry that video game characters aren't attractive enough, they lose their shit when a trans person wins a beauty pageant in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, they get angry that a trans person won some rinky dink local marathon in fucking Estonia or something.

They don't watch princess movies, they don't watch animated childrens shows, many of them don't play video games, none of them even give a damn about beauty pageants and they don't care for professional women's sports nevermind local amateur sporting events.

Yet these middle aged conservative men who proclaim to be hyper masculine and strong are up in arms at literal cartoons, content for young girls, pageants and amateur women's sports.

They're a joke. They legitimately think every single thing in the world should be exclusively for heterosexual white people.

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And there's you, the enthusiastic builder of straw man villages on behalf of international corporations.

Keep licking those boots!

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It's called acting.

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https://twitter.com/NsPostingFs/status/1776711374590132367/photo/1

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Tom Holland isn't that good-looking. But, like I wrote, it's acting so who cares?

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Neither one of them are. Why not get some attractive actors?

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It's theatre, not cinema -- it's about the words, not the aesthetics. You can get away with casting pretty people like Leonardo di Caprio or Olivia Hussey in a film version, because it's a visual medium.

For a stage version, whether they're pretty or not, you need actors who can actually read the lines properly, which neither of the above-named actors could do. You can't garble Shakespeare on stage.

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