We need some kind of Remedial Gimmickry class for novelty accounts this bad.

We watched Planet of the Apes in high school.

[SMASH CUT TO: ONE YEAR LATER. MOHAMAD, KACEY ROHL, and MOHAMAD'S PARENTS all lie bleeding to death in and around a Baltimore brownstone.]

The Torfuson's Armada.

Not all dreams can come true.

On the other hand, what makes Daniel seem so believable is the fact that the way he moves and looks around and speaks always seems to be somewhere between 'shell-shocked' and 'tripping on acid', and that feels so specific to his character's history and nature that I figured it was just an amazing piece of acting. The…

Somehow I expected Aden Young the actor to be somewhat different from Daniel the character, but the deliberately-paced speech of measured tones and word choice, the eerie stillness, and the otherworldly eyes are all there. Huh.

True story: a black girl who went to my high school in Saskatchewan (the same high school which produced Tatiana The Great) ended up in the Stratford Theatre Company. But you could still probably count the number of black people there on one hand and they're probably all actors.

Uh, no. I'm several years out of high school. But I have kept tabs on my classmates and the number that have either finished transitioning or begun it is pretty startling.

I don't think legally and surgically changing your gender counts as 'play' in anything but very Radical Foucaultian circles.

Well, the obvious answer is just to not go for a name if it would be disrespectful. Comparing cis actors playing trans roles to blackface isn't something I want to do, but if you had a case where you could only cast, say, unknown Persian actors in an Iranian role versus a well-known Latino, you probably should at…

I can't really respond to this since I would need you to expand on that to explain what you mean, but I'm slightly fearful of what the results will be.

Um… No. When I say 'gender-variant', I mean only those who self-identify as something other than cis, ie, trans people (0.2-3% rate based on studies a few years old, and based on my anecdotal experience, probably closer to 0.5% unless my Catholic high school had a bunch of estrogen in the water or something),…

I think the explosive growth of terminology related to trans topics in the past decade is a pretty natural reflection of the growth in suspected incidence rates and therefore visibility over the years. Back when it was a rare condition thought to have a prevalence of 1 in 10,000, it might have been contrived, but…

Seriously though I hope you're okay with me copy-pasting your 'phoney baloney made-up nonsense word' post into a file of mine and using it in the future as an ur-example of someone being confidently and decisively hostile to something they think is new or ill-founded because they themselves actually don't understand…

Uhh, 'cis' has been used as a counterpart to 'trans' in everything from chemistry to the Alps all the ways back to the fucking Latinate you ignoramus.

There's a comparison I was thinking about last night, which is that, personally, I would love to see Shakespeare as originally performed some time - that is, with all the female parts performed by male youth company members in drag. I think it would be really interesting and cool.

I think there are two claims that go around in times like these - the first, more radical and Tumblr-y, is the claim that Cis actors can't play trans roles. As a trans person I'm deeply uncomfortable with this idea since it would logically imply that Trans actors can't play cis roles, and anyways the theatre has a…

This is totally tangential, but does everyone remember how Andrew Garfield openly campaigned for Spiderman to have a gay romance a while back? Dude totally has that Queer-Fascinated thing going. Or as we will obviously call it on this site, a Franco.

Petyr Baelish in: Ladder of Cards.