Dazed Magazineのインスタグラム(dazed) - 9月1日 03時08分
#EllenPage hates being called ‘brave’ for playing gay roles:
It was only a week ago that @エレン・ペイジ was grilling a Republican presidential candidate over #LGBTQ issues. Now the actor, who has been a staunch advocate for LGBTQ rights since coming out in 2014, has turned her attention to the attitudes surrounding her work.
In a @TIME Magazine interview, she calls out people praising her for playing a gay character. "When people are [called] brave in regards to playing LGBTQ people, that’s borderline offensive," she said. "I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be." In fact, hero-worshipping actors for doing what they're paid for is something she generally disagrees with: "Maybe this is a bad thing to say, but I have a hard time when people call actors brave. I don’t really get that, because our job is to read something on a page." In her latest film, @Freeheldmovie, Page plays Stacie Andree, one-half of a lesbian couple that achieved real-world fame when Andree’s partner Laurel was diagnosed with terminal cancers. On playing this character, she added: "It’s hard to say this, because the context of the film is so deeply tragic, but for me there was a deep sense of peace on set that I had not felt in a really long time, potentially since I was a teenager and first having these really beautiful, fortunate moments in films. There was something about being out, getting to play a gay character, and getting to play a woman who is so inspiring to me—it was such an amazing experience for me." In addition, Page is not worried about being typecast as the stock lesbian character. "Honestly, if I played gay characters for the rest of my career, I’d be thrilled," she said. "I wish I could, honestly!” Interestingly, she believes that while Hollywood are shoving the cis-white experience down our throats, the average person doesn't actually want to see that ad infinitum. "It’s evident from what people are watching on TV that people want diversity" she said. "… look at @oitnb. You’re seeing actors that, if that show didn’t exist, we might not have ever seen—that are extraordinary." – words @hannahrose___ #dazedinstastory ? @エレン・ペイジ
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