Actors And Their Parts......

[ToraToraTora]

These days gay actors must play gay characters, disabled actors must play disabled characters etc etc so it follows that dwarf actors should play dwarf characters, right?
Wrong!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/flaBLptZ2gc

[bhg481]

It's going to be interesting if they remake any Dracula films.

[fiveleaves]

Surely the greatest skill in acting is playing a character very different to yourself

[barry1010]

The job availability for many actors would become extremely limited if this were the policy.

There are (still) far more heterosexual roles than any other type; the vast majority are able bodied. The gay/lesbian/non-binary/fluid/trans etc and disabled would be offered fewer roles.

If a book were to be turned in to a tv series or film the director might have a firm idea of who he wants to the play the lead role. If that character is Welsh but the actor is English, he would simply change the character to an English man.

Even my Asian friends think it derisory to see Asian characters in tv series that really shouldn't be there, usually hovering in the background drinking a cup of tea, the ladies in saris. Sometimes playing a doctor with one or two lines. Best actor for the role - that's the only factor that should be taken in to account.

[Tilly2]

I played the chief monkey in a school production of Jungle Book. Was that OK to do?

[Tilly2]

Ii got the part because I could screech louder than anyone else
:-)

[smurfchops]

I went to a Panto of Snow White and 7 Dwarfs not so long ago, hoping the Dwarfs would be played by cute kiddies…. They were men walking about in their knees. It was ridiculous.

[Peter Pedant]

no volunteers for Marie Antoinette then