Is this still allowed in New Hollywood?
/Renee Zellweger is wearing a fat suit for her depiction of an obese serial killer
I know that under the new rules, whites can’t play blacks, or Chinee*, or Indians (chicken feather or dot head) or Eskimos, and straights can’t play gays (can transgenders pick and choose? I’m not sure), nor gentiles, Jews. So is Zellwegger guilty of fat-shaming here? Should she even have the role at all?
I hate it when I’m presented with such perplexing brain teasers so early in the morning
*Or any Asians at all — Gilbert &Sullivan’s The Mikado was cancelled and removed from the repertoire of all righteous theater companies as far back as 2015.