Casting trans is, in my mind, equivalent to casting gender: a female actor can play a pregnant woman in a film without actually being pregnant on camera.

I think the pool of competent acting talent that is in the middle of transition at any given point is too small. Ultimately, if your goal is to hire the best actor for a role, the more you limit your pool, the tougher it is to get the film made.

What I specifically wonder is whether that would be a triggering experience for a trans actor, the answer invariably being “probably for some %, and probably to varying degrees” and that runs into problems, too.

Retaining your amateur status for that college scholarship I take it?

Let’s go method, Jonah! Cut off you fingers!

My first instinct is, how the fuck did this get a 2nd season.

Is Miramax still in need of money to pay off all the Weinstein claimants? Because that’s one explanation.

AND she’ll star in it, unironically playing herself at every age covered in the biopic.

I don’t think it’s racism so much as revisionism: by the time Rotten Tomatoes had an audience score, most of Eddie Murphy’s hits, and even financial successes that were so-so/negative with critics, were long since released, and he had been relegated to a punchline. I’d bet most everyone who has rated his movies from…

You know when something doesn’t sound right so you take the 5 minutes needed to fact-check it? Anything that says Adam Sandler isn’t a decades-long cinematic abortion makes me double-check things.

Not even a little surprised that a movie with full cooperation from the subject essentially functions as a hagiography. There simply aren’t interesting movies made about complex people if the complex people are involved and don’t want to show the uglier sides of their story.

Which then begs the question: if audiences like (or, at very least, tolerate) Adam Sandler movies more, why do his fail to make back their budget more often than Eddie Murphy? What’s the disconnect there? What might be the reason an audience of Adam Sandler’s fans are more likely to review his movies on Rotten…

Given it’s both more in terms of raw numbers and more in terms of percentage (10% swing), I’d argue it’s significant, even more so since you didn’t couch your statement that Murphy made more bombs than Sandler with anything other than the word “more”.

Eddie Murphy hasn’t been in more bombs than Adam Sandler, though.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I haven’t missed Kate McKinnon at all this season. She was a breath of fresh air in her early seasons, but probably should’ve left after her 2016 Hilary Clinton run. Since then, it’s been repetitious to the extreme.

And I think this might be the episode with the most amount of Punkie Johnston since she began, minus her one Weekend Update guest spot.

That’s what a ton of Cecily’s musical bits have been since she started playing upper-middle-aged Broadway dames. She did a beat-by-beat recreation of the Streisand version of ‘Jingle Bells’ and so on.

I can see her regularly doing guest pieces, sometimes as herself and sometimes as oddball characters, but I’m 100% sure nobody wants to listen to that voice read vaguely funny news for 10 straight minutes.

This I 100% agree with. She’s not Bob Dylan bad, but it’s clear the reason she writes her own songs is because she’s a quite limited vocalist.

To each their own, but IMO....