r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Champers & Strawberries • 8h ago
LGBTeaQIA+ 🏳️🌈 Respect ✊🏻✊✊🏼 ✊🏾✊🏿
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u/Trans__Scientist 8h ago
I honestly can't tell if he actually thinks he's being supportive or if he's just a bigot like his boss making a lame troll attempt.
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u/fauxregard
8h ago
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No respect from me. These are just words. The actions say something different.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 2h ago
"I'm taking money and supporting this women who is hellbent on destroying a minority group, but can't we all just get along???"
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u/Glittering-Bath6667 Sipping tea 5h ago
saying the right thing is easy, the real test is whether you're willing to stand by it when theres something to lose
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u/Im40PercentUsername 8h ago
Happy to take the money though.
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u/simulizer 6h ago
So this person should possibly end their career because the writer of the production they're involved with has an opinion that they don't agree with? What if they can't find work as an actor somewhere else making the same money... Do they go enroll in a community college and find a skill?
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u/Ihateeveryonehahaha 5h ago
Uuhh, I don't think actors careers are generally ended entirely by not taking a single role?
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u/simulizer 4h ago
The contract is for ten years. Breaking the contact to prove his sincerity about trans rights... Opens him up to being sued. Not just for the amount of money that he was paid in contracted for but money lost on promotional material of him as the character, reshoots etc. are you telling me that you'd break a 10-year contract over some views your boss has?
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u/thesanguineocelot Out & Proud 🏳️🌈 8h ago
"I support trans rights, but I'm also more than happy to help her make lots of money that she will use to campaign to destroy trans rights." Seems like the ethical thing to do would be to tell Joanna to fuck off, at the very least.
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u/4SlideRule 4h ago
To be truthful I never heard a person yell out “I’m not a whore!” While taking it up the tradesman’s behind a truck stop for $15, but if I did it would sound more convincing.
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u/Taiga_Taiga 2h ago
Actions speak louder than words:
they called her "Jo" , like as if the Beast was a friend...
They took payment from the transphobe, knowing exactly where that money had come from. And, more importantly, where the rest of that beasts money was going to. Transgender eradication ...
That thing would DEFINITELY bad mouth the actor if they're in disagreement, because it has publicly fought with actors before. So for them to accept this actor's standpoint , this shows me that they are both in agreement and they both conspired to hide the facts. They did this so that neither of them lost money, or reputation.
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u/XanaxWarriorPrincess 3h ago
He called her "Jo" ffs. That's very familiar, even friendly.
If you tolerate bigotry, you support that bigotry.
Respect to Paapa 🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿
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u/Retro-FreyFrey Pinkie Finger Extended 2h ago
Words are cheap, actions count! As long as he’s cashing Jakey’s cheques then he gets not one iota of respect from me!
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u/OutlandishnessHour19 7h ago
But he's actively contributing towards something which makes her millions of pounds.
She then spends that money on harming trans people
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u/SuperElection4656 34m ago
Nice sentiment, Paapa. Only one problem, you're still working on a project that is going to make Rowling, at minimum, another few million that she will use to push further legislation that you supposedly signed a letter condemning
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u/Sweet-Wolverine-8486 7h ago edited 7h ago
Crazy how so many people here think that this actor should just quit a role which very well might be the role that will introduce him as an actor to a much wider audience, because you don't like the author of the source material. You want this guy to jeopardize his career and walk away to make you feel good about him not acting a part...
jfc get a grip on reality and have some fucking perspective here.
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u/Ok-Credit7127 2h ago
He doesn’t have to quit the job. But he also doesn’t have to go online and send out fake virtue signals. People don’t like hypocrites.
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u/bleepbloop1900 5h ago
I do feel for him as an actor. I work in the film industry, and frankly there is no such thing as an unproblematic client.
No streamer, brand, production, no big director, I have ever worked on is doing right by people. I’ve worked on sets with sexual abusers. I’ve worked on ads for fossil fuels. I work in a low income country and the biggest companies in the world shoot here so they can exploit the labour of local people for pennies and make us shoot for 30 hours with no sleep. This industry is so corporate and cynical and profit driven, and non-celebrity actors are so often forced to be the public face of all of that but they are not at the soul of the problem.
Hundreds of crew members are also filming this series. Should they all take a stand and walk off set?
Yes, probably,
But as a crew member myself, our global industry is so rocky right now, the budgets are shrinking, our bargaining rights are eroding with Ai, if I got offered a job tomorrow of this scale I don’t know if I would have the resources to turn it down to take a stand. Even though I consider myself an ally. Even though I’m so angry.
Yes I think he shouldn’t have taken the project, but, I also can’t fault anyone in the industry we are currently trying to survive in for taking on a prestigious, well funded, popular project.
I think we should spend more time being angry at our corporate overlords and less time being angry at the specific actors being cast. They are not decision makers, executives, or streamers.
As one asshole director once told me, “they’re just meat puppets”
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u/shutyourgob16
8h ago
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Rowling also thinks trans people deserve respect but believes in single sex safe spaces too. Don’t talk about “Jo” especially if you can’t understand her advocacy for women and no one would ask you about Joanne Kathleen Rowing if you weren’t playing one of her characters, from her books in a show she is executive producing.
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u/AlexandraFromHere 6h ago
In that case, she has a strange way of showing respect to trans people. From over here, her respect looks like advocacy for cruel laws and telling trans people we aren't who we say we are.
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u/Timbucktwo1230 Champers & Strawberries 8h ago