MLK is a real person who is black. It’s not like he’s a fictional character who is being reimagined for a new generation.

White people flip shit when an entirely fictional character isn’t white. Seriously, test a black Spider-Man or a Latino Batman and see what happens.

... to indicate that the role of Martin Luther King, Jr. must be played by a black actor.

Director Michael Oatman had indeed double-cast the role of King with a black actor and a white actor

It’s definitely a thing! When I was 15, people who were 35-40 were midlife-crisis hags. Now that I’m 45, I can’t tell a twentysomething from a thirtysomething, alla you kids look the same to me and Git Offa My Lawn.

I can see that. To be fair to your point, I do think the threshold of dickishness is higher for the person in the relationship, since the person you’re hurting doesn’t exist as an abstraction. It’s shitty to hurt other people, but you have to be more dedicated to doing something shitty to hurt someone you’re close and…

Nope—sixty-year-old woman who’s seen many marriages fall apart.

Eh, I see this reasoning a lot and I’m not sure I buy it. Obviously, he’s the one who betrayed his pregnant partner (they weren’t married), which is massively shitty, but I think it’s also pretty shitty to get involved with someone who you know to be in a relationship, unless you have a compelling reason to believe…

Sadly (as I’ve said in another comment on this post) I’ve seen it happen, so I can imagine - and it’s pretty awful. And I’m willing to bet MLP wasn’t someone who went into a pregnancy lightly with a guy she didn’t see as a long-term partner. I mean, as an actress, the unique ways pregnancy wrecks your body can effect…

Agreed. When you’re off cheating and your partner is home with the kids doing all the dull kid family home life stuff you’re pretty much showing you’re a selfish git. That doesn’t bode well for parenting.

I’m guessing it’s taken a lot of years and a hell of a lot of therapy to get to this point. When I divorced after two decades due to my ex’s cheating it literally took me nearly three years just to think straight. Now, four years later, I’m pretty zen about the whole thing but it can still bubble up at odd moments…

Actors can be weird. For all we know, they had a deep discussion and agreed he needed to trust his instincts. *shrug*

Claire Danes was 24 at the time - well within the range when people don’t have the maturity to comport themselves well in the face of “true love.” Billy Crudup was 34 and had a kid on the way. One of them is a forgivable asshole, at least, while the other should have been too busy supporting his new family to have his…

Much as I would love to know the details (when did she find out? were they already on the rocks? how did he tell her? did she find out from someone else?! etc.) there is a third, innocent, party in all this.

I’m glad she did it this way. He doesn’t deserve to be named.

Relationships are complicated. People are complicated. It’s easy to say Crudup is just a jerk but we don’t know what went down with their relationship.

Seriously. I want to offer my services as a face-punching, mud slinging proxy.

Class fucking act. That’s not what I want from my celebrities! Now, where did I put Leah Remini’s memoir?

His face has always seemed so douchey and punchable and this story is a big part of it. Ughhhhhh I mean good on her for venting and finding peace in a way that wasn’t just rehashing all the drama but if there’s any famous ex-bf who deserves a bit of mud-slinging it’s this guy.