[Rummyfan]

As Laurence Olivier famously said to a strung-out Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man (after he’d stayed awake for 48 hours straight to simulate the torment of his character): “Why not try acting dear boy?”

[silverleaf]

I guess we’re supposed to accept Richard III as a black lesbian….which would make the Welsh guilty of a hate crime

[devane617]

As a ‘disabled wheelchair user’ I don’t care.

[Dogbert41]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Dinklage-68257.jpg

Peter Dinklage gets my vote

[jmcenanly]

In 1997, The Shakespeare Theater put on a production of Othello with Sir Patrick Stewart in the lead role. Rather than use dark makeup on Sir Patrick, they decided to simply cast African American actors as the rest of the cast. Here is a photo of him with Desdemona.

If he had tried this today, he would be roundly denounced for depriving a black actor of the role.

[Verginius Rufus]

Richard III is dead. How can any living person properly play him?

[PAR35]

I agree. They obviously need to cast either George Soros or Falsehood Fauci in the role.

[ansel12]

I hear they are having to recast Hannibal Lecter for the remake of The Silence of the Lambs.