“I would argue that the key to diversity should be addressed at the very top: commercial theatre. It has a responsibility to showcase BAME performers in leading roles in order to show the merits of, and then to offer, diverse casting in mainstream productions.”
Tag: 12.04.16
TV Needs Its ‘Weak’ Women Characters
No, not the “unlikeable” ones like Cersei Lannister on “Game of Thrones,” whose walk of shame partially redeems her, but the ones on dark comedies like “Fleabag” and “Transparent,” wherein the characters offer “a way of challenging audiences to confront their own biases against historically less sanctioned forms of female behavior.”
The Steps On The Journey Of A ‘Minority’ Actor (Bonus When One Step Means Being In Star Wars)
Riz Ahmed, one of the stars of “Rogue One,” says he’s reached a level he didn’t even consider. “The action figure is like an extra level you didn’t know was there.” But he still gets searched every time he flies – the last time he was searched twice, only to get on the plane and find his face on the cover of the in-flight magazine.
Erdogan’s Terrible Crackdown On Turkish Journalists And Teachers Has Mostly Left Novelists Untouched
In Turkey since the failed coup, thousands of academics, teachers and journalists have been jailed, and pro-Kurdish books have been pulped. But “only three authors are behind bars, none of them for their books.”
A Jewish Family, Still Battling A Spanish Museum Over Nazi-Looted Art
“In the epic, 16-year battle over a priceless painting looted by the Nazis, there is one point on which all sides agree: When Lilly Cassirer and her husband fled Germany ahead of the Holocaust, they surrendered their Camille Pissarro masterpiece in exchange for their lives.”
Sudha Khandwani, Who Died In November, Was A Tireless Advocate And Catalyst For Indian Dance In North America
Khandwani was a trailblazer who founded the Toronto-based Kalanidhi Festival for South Asian contemporary dance. “She was rabid about people coming to new things, for them to broaden the horizons of their artistry. She was a pioneer, a city builder, a cultural catalyst.”
Awards Season Heats Up: Los Angeles Critics Pick Moonlight As Best Pic
The results show that the battle might be between “La-La Land” (which won the New York Film Critics Circle award) and “Moonlight,” though “Manchester By the Sea” was a runner up in many categories as well.
Oh, Do You Think Hollywood Is Different Now Than When Brando And Bertolucci Abused Maria Schneider?
Yeah, no, not really. “Everyone knows about the big cases: the conviction and exile of Roman Polanski, the (denied and unproven) accusation of Woody Allen. But there is also a vast unacknowledged history of normalised abuse – virtually every female star and many male stars have endured a casting-couch assault, although the MO has of course been offscreen.”
The Most Famous German Theatre Director Is Committed To Taking On The Far Right
Thomas Ostermeier has returned again and again to plays that strip the nationalist far right of its masks and pretenses, and he and his theatre have been sued and threatened for it. Why does he do it? “Because, he says, he’s ‘interested in truth.'”
How Did Westworld – Which Cost More Than Many Movies And Halted Production In The Middle – Become A Huge HBO Hit?
The project was ambitious, with $100 million in start-up costs, and the producers had to shut down production to revamp, revise and rewrite, so everyone in the industry thought it would tank. But it seems likely that “Westworld will surpass True Detective’s season-one audience and end up with the biggest viewership of any HBO first-year series ever.”