aLkaLiNE said:
A straight person would have no idea what its really like to be gay and I don't think a gay person would have a firm grasp on what its like to be straight. From what I read, you know from a very young age which way you slant and that relationship status becomes a significant part of who you are. With that being said, you're relying on the writer but how can a person put themselves in those shoes? You're asking blue to imagine it's red. |
I don't understand what you're getting at. Casting someones race incorrectly is clearly bad type casting. If someone white plays a black character, and they are addressed as being black throughout the script and in the dialog, that's poor type casting. If someone asian plays a jew, that's poor type casting.
That's why it's called acting. It's not an actors job to empithize with their character. It's an actors job to pretend professionally. Actors pretend to be murderers, phychopaths, downtrodden, etc all the time. It's their job. If a straight person can play a gay person convincingly, or if a gay person can play a straight person convincingly, it doesn't matter what their sexual orientation really is. It's an actors job to pretend. If an actor can't fake being gay, they're a shitty actor.
That isn't a type casting issue at all. You can't see gay, you can only be gay. You can see race, though, which is why casting race incorrectly is a completely different matter for casting sexual orientation incorrectly.
