#casting-controversy

#casting-controversy

When a woman directs boldly, it's trashy. When a man does, it's visionary

Since the 2024 announcement of the casting of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell's buzzy adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, invested parties online have condemned the filmmaker's choice of Elordi, a white (and very tall) Australian actor, for the role of Heathcliff, the adopted brother of the Earnshaw family who, through their mistreatment and his separation from his beloved adopted sister Cathy, becomes implacably vengeful and cruel.

As a series-length adaptation of Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first season of the Harry Potter series will have a much larger canvas on which to tell its story. That means the reboot will contain some new additions - and according to Lox Pratt, who plays Potter's arch-rival, Draco Malfoy, in the series, those additions include more backstory for one of the most loathed characters in the Wizarding World.

Critics have long argued that apart from denying trans actresses work, casting cisgender men to play trans women reinforces the anti-trans perception that trans women are "really" men. That insidious belief is not only at the heart of efforts to deny trans women access to public bathrooms, changing rooms, and shelters, but can also lead to violence against them.

The trailer sees Bronte's star-crossed lovers, Catherine (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) meeting first as children, then becoming tangled in a torturous love affair as adults in the West Yorkshire moors. What would you do, Heathcliff, if you were rich? Robbie's Cathy asks Elordi's Heathcliff. I suppose I'd do what all rich men do, he answers. Live in a big house, be cruel to my servants, take a wife.

"We were best friends from 12, 13 years old until then," he told " Page Six" on October 29, following up on his podcast appearance. It began when Muniz guest-starred on Duff's Disney Channel showin 2002. "I was on the set of Lizzie McGuire, and I was in Hilary's dressing room and her mom was there," he said on the podcast. Duff's mom asked what Muniz was working on that summer.

The production has received backlash for the casting of Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, with critics calling for a Black actor to play the latter character, described in the book as having dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin. Fennell explained her decisions, recalling the moment she wanted to scream when she saw Elordi with sideburns on the Saltburn set, as he reminded her of Dirk Bogarde and looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff on the first book that I read.

The attention-seeking Boston-born influencer wife of Alec Baldwin, who bizarrely spent a decade trying to pass herself off as being from Spain, certainly has some stiff competition in this category. Over the past 20 years, the dance competition show has spotlighted celebrities, sports stars and even political figures who have been mired in various controversies and other questionable behavior before they ended up on the show.

Critics argue the decision to replace a barrier-breaking Asian actor with a white successor in a production of Asian authorship sends a disheartening message and reflects a broader pattern of exclusion.