Crippled, AND must have served as a medieval king for at least two years

After and before: 2013, and 1484

The Woke crowd demands that only an actor who has the “lived experience” of being Richard III can portray him.

Their knickers are in a knot because an able-bodied actress is scheduled to portray him in a coming production at the Globe Theater. No worries, apparently, that the actor is female — these days, that’s just a social construct, after all — but they claim that, because the King suffered from scoliosis, that makes him disabled, and only an actor who shares the “lived experience” of a character can portray him.

I’m sure that, being English, the poofs at the Globe will apologize, and perhaps force the actress to strap her shoulder to her ankle for a fortnight before she appears on stage so that she can gain some of the necessary experience, but Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has posted this old nugget that might apply:

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?"

(Coincidentally, Olivier himself portrayed Richard III in his 1955 film version of the play.)