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re: Am I the only one who doesn't like Audra McDonald??

Posted by:	robbyho 12:09 am EST 12/08/13
In reply to:	re: Am I the only one who doesn't like Audra McDonald?? - LegitOnce 12:57 pm EST 12/07/13

I think if you get into a place where you say that black actors shouldn't do anything too "black" in typically white roles and gay actors shouldn't do anything too "gay" lest they remind people they're gay, what you're saying is that straight white people get to set the norms and that people outside of that category have to put a little extra effort into concealing their difference. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your response, but I couldn't disagree with you more. Because those rules allow white/straight actors a degree of interpretive range that would then be denied to other people. And aside from everything else, I don't think audiences care that much. If anyone was staring at Audra McDonald and was stuck on the fact that there couldn't have been a black Mother Superior in Austria and policing her performance for telltale blackness, that is a failure of imagination on their part for which she is not responsible.

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