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22 de maio de 2019 às 10:00 37 views

#Especial LGBTQIAP+, Tommy Dorfman  heart

 

“For some people it's the first gay kid in high school that's comfortable with themselves that they've seen sort of represented on screen. You don't see a lot of that — especially on mainstream media. So, I think that's been really important. I think fostering acceptance, either with oneself or with peers, or kids that they go to school with that maybe they didn't understand before. It's interesting to play a character that's so outspoken and so confident and dry and intelligent at such a young age.”

What do you hope to see within the next few years? You're obviously a very strong advocate and voice for the LGBTQ community. Is there anything tangible you're looking to see or a feeling that you're looking to achieve?

You mean, like, aside from an entirely new administration? That's our default I guess. [I'm hoping in the future] the work [in entertainment] that's being created and produced and financed is more truthful to our day-to-day experiences and more diverse and more inclusive so that we no longer have to have categorized LGBTQ films and it becomes more about the medium and less about the characters. Because even still today with a greater presence of LGBTQ people in film and television, more often than not they're tokenized, or it becomes like the selling point of the movie. Which is cool and exciting obviously but at the end of the day I think for me as an actor and a lot of people that I know that fall under that umbrella — we just want to work and not have it just be about how we identify on the gender spectrum or who we have sex with or who we're married to — any of that. And play characters that are perhaps truthful to, or close to, our own experience but also characters that are different from us. That's definitely what I hope for.

What would you say to those people who say celebrities should stay in their place and not give their opinions?
I was listening to the radio and this crazy guy was like, "Celebrities are part of the liberal agenda and they're unintelligent and they're stupid and the whole purpose of actors is to read words that were written for them and they're not creative and Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio, they're so hypocritical, they don't have their own thoughts. They're just like robots." Which to me is completely insane. Art has always and forever been a reflection of the time and what's going on. Actors, at least in my experience, are huge collaborators in that process. We create the characters that we play, which then influences the writers who write… What scares people the most is that we have large platforms and we can sway votes and create policy changes." 

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