Emmerich directing HIS version of “Stonewall”
Openly gay director, Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall has been trashed up and down the internet since the trailer premiered. Now that the reviews and the movie itself are out, it faces more accusations of whitewashing. And when Emmerich gave an interview saying “straight-acting” (wtf!?) leading man Jeremy Irvine is an easy “in” for straight audiences, he really didn’t help his case. He told BuzzFeed;
“You have to understand one thing: I didn’t make this movie only for gay people, I made it also for straight people. I kind of found out, in the testing process, that actually, for straight people, [Danny] is a very easy in. Danny’s very straight-acting. He gets mistreated because of that. [Straight audiences] can feel for him.”
Wow. There is SO much wrong with what he said but I’ll let it sink in…
So, to give us an idea of the other biopics that might be greenlit by Emmerich’s production company, Lily White Pictures (I made that up) a parody Twitter account presents Lea Michele as Rosa Parks, Sam Smith as Barry White and someone called Pat St. Clement (a dead ringer for Paula Deen, which might have been a better choice) as Maya Angelou. And FYI, the Stonewall trailer, below has more Dislikes than Likes on YouTube. It was categorized in correctly though, given Emmerich’s past hits, Stonewall is another disaster flick, but not the good kind.
Nina Simone
Barry White
Rosa Parks
Maya Angelou
Destiny’s Child
(via Attitude)
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