Just recast the entire movie to the Sunny cast. Frank as Mario, Charlie as Luigi, Dee as Peach, Dennis as Warrio.

…they’re fictional characters, created by Japanese developers, who have always been portrayed as stereotypes. What Italian American roots?

Page went off in him for going to a supposed anti-LGBT church, except said church has had openly LGBT members in the clergy for years now.

According to James Gunn the church thing is false.

Made you aware of what specifically? James Gunn is on record defending Pratt’s character, including explicitly stating that Pratt isn’t homophobic, but it’s cool to hate someone you don't know just because someone else told you to.  Think harder and be a better person. 

I’m not a big fan or anything, but the fact that he is headlining the current #1 movie in the world (which just beat a Pixar movie featuring everyone’s first or second favorite Chris) is pretty indicative that this opinion isn’t shared by a majority of the world.

Super Mario movies have a long tradition of being an entire feature length movie of torture, so it would be fine

When there were BLM protests, cops didn’t have the least bit of hesitance to bust heads, toss people in vans, arrest anyone and everyone (including reporters with press passes). 

Ask 100 random people who this man is and 99 will probably say Chris Evans.

Charles Martinet was right there

But a statement from Capitol Police (per Variety) disputed this

I don’t think anyone remembers whatever the heck this was.

Shouldn’t you be somewhere else defending alcoholic wife beaters who sometimes pretend to be pirates 

“And today it’s still an issue: straight people are still hired to play gay roles, cisgendered people play trans roles (and win Oscars for it)“

Now we know where recognitions works. Also, do not reply to recognitions.

He has entered the “old white guy reminiscing” phase of his life and I’m not here for it.

It’s also a weird rabbit hole to go down. If he is saying it is inauthentic for a straight actor to play a gay character does that also mean his Philadelphia character should be played by someone who is HIV positive if the movie was made today? But being HIV+ is not the death sentence it was in 1993 so does that mean…

I get that Hanks is drawing a distinction between what was acceptable in the past versus the, uh, “modern realm of authenticity.” But I don’t think Philadelphia would have been better served by (almost) any other actor, whatever their sexual orientation. Not in acting ability alone, but also in terms of cultural…