Would you defend her if she was casting a black role with a white actor?
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“I personally agree with her” is not the same thing as there not being controversy.
Sia: I want to make a movie about how non-neurotypical people are perfectly capable.
So...the movie is based on a true to life story about a girl with autism who surmounted the odds to dance and Sia could’ve find an autistic actor who can dance??
Just because you agree with her doesn’t mean her critics don’t exist
Maddie apparently didn’t even really want to do it.
Those are real words, yo. Well, maybe not “Abelist”, unless there’s a group dedicated to fighting Cainites.
It weirds me tf out that Sia uses this kid as her avatar when she’s been so outspoken about the damaging effects of fame and hypervisibilty, especially for women. On a deeper level, the fact that child actors are even allowed to be a thing anymore weirds me out. It’s so bizarre to me that we’ve outlawed child labour…
This is the crux of it, IMO. Someone on twitter shared a bunch of interviews where Sia is talking about Maddie, or vice versa, with the claim that the relationship (which started when she was a little kid) is unhealthy at best and downright abusive at worst. Everything else she’s doing is dancing around the point that…
As an aside, I’d like to take a minute just sitting right here to share my absolute loathing for the Sia Christmas song “Santa’s coming for us”. It’s being played relentlessly and I can’t take it anymore.
Can’t wait for all the commenters ready to make an ableist justification for casting a neurotypical actor.
AH, the old “it’s called acting” argument. Look at it this way: when you’re picking out a Halloween costume, it’s fine to wear a doctor’s outfit, or a construction outfit. It’s fine to be Spongebob or Harry Potter. It is not, however, okay to dress up in blackface or an “Indian” costume, because people’s ethnic…
I have the feeling Sia just really wanted to make a dance musical starring Maddie Ziegler so casting someone else was never an option. In which case Ziegler’s character and her story should have been reconsidered.
The crux of the argument is that of representation. Let’s say you have a trans character: there are hundreds, if not thousands, of wonderful trans actors who very rarely get roles because there aren’t many trans characters, and having one of those rare trans roles be played by, like, Jared Leto denies them yet another…
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That was a rocking cover and the band really helped. Cool video and I’ll have to check out several of the other #SOSFest performances.
What we found when my wife was pregnant was that more often than not, you end up with a sugar bomb instead of a good, well-balanced non-alcoholic drink. Granted the nicer cocktail bars are generally better at this, but we still have a long way to go.
That’s an insult to apes
This is a joke, right? You aren’t really as dumb as you are coming across at the moment? Or did a simple web search fail you?
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