Woke Hollywood has lost the plot
REST in peace Diana Rigg. What an actress, what a woman. A rare beauty who, despite being a sex symbol in The Avengers, pictured, and a Bond girl, allowed herself to age naturally, never tinkering with her face, happy to let her talent define her. Not many of those left now, in a world where so many believe staying young forever is the key to success.
FILMS will have to abide by new diversity rules to stand a chance of winning an Oscar from now on.
The decision by organisers has sparke sparked a backlash from actors who have called th them out for “being so woke it’s a joke”.
Kirsty Alley, inset, who has never actua ally been in an Oscar-nominated mo movie, tweeted: “This is a disgrace to art artists everywhere. Can you imagine tel telling Picasso what had to be in his f*** f***ing paintings. You people have lost y your minds”.
And James Woods – who has been nominated twice – fumed it was “madness”. Then again he is a Donald Trump supporter so I’m not sure if he knows the meaning of that word.
It’s clear the Oscars have needed a good shake- up as they have been bee dominated by white middle-aged m men and mostly from a privile privileged background.
I know how hard it i is to crack the business. The fact that I made it as a succ successful agent, author, p producer and playwr playwright – despite being d dyslexic, having no formal qualificati qualifications and having once been so poor I was homeless – makes me a rarity. So I wholeheartedly salute a change in off-screen diversity to give everyone a chance.
But the recent obsession with also controlling who now gets to play certain roles on screen is sticking in my throat.
Surely the point of acting is acting. Isn’t the movie industry meant to be the world of make believe?
If everyone now has to be the same as the part they are playing, Isn’t that just reality TV on the silver screen?
The way things are going, will we ever witness wonderous Oscar winning performances like Daniel Day Lewis stretched to his limits in My Left Foot? And would Jodie Foster, as a lesbian, have been allowed to play a heterosexual rape victim in The Accused?
‘Woke’ seems to have so many double standards. For example it’s now considered wrong for a straight actor to play a gay role but a gay actor can play a straight one. Where is the sense in that?
Shouldn’t it always be the best person for the best role? Do we need to tick every box like for like? Acting is just acting, it’s meant to be realistic, not actually real.
If things don’t calm down, we’ll be in big trouble if they ever remake The Silence of the Lambs!