In a 6.20 chat with Gold Derby‘s Bill McCuddy, Loren & Rose star Jacqueline Bisset has taken issue with Tom Hanks‘ view of currently appropriate vs. inappropriate casting, which I highlighted on 6.14.22.
Bisset: “I can’t take all this talk about sexual roles. Who’s a man and who’s a woman. I just don’t understand it. I [actually] haven’t thought about it but I think it’s probably not a good idea. I think it’s all getting crazy. That a director can only use the actors that are able to be the person. Where does acting come in? Acting is a job about [xdelivering] the different emotions that you can do. ]But now] you have to be Mexican to play a Mexican part? You have to be Italian to play an Italian part. I just don’t know where that takes us to.
“It’s not a political statement when you begin casting. You try to find the right person for the job. I just don’t see it. I mean, I see a degree of it but I think parts should be open to many different groups of people. And I’m all for casting being fair. But to say, ‘You can’t make this movie with someone, you have to make it with someone else’ because of a rule. I think that’s turning a lot of people off.”