Jeremy O Harris on men not being able to be "actors"

I'm curious as to what other people think about this claim Jeremy O Harris made on Twitter.



"If you’re top five actors of all time aren’t just the names of five women you’re cancelled to me. no man can TRULY act. some can perform but those are the gay and gay adjacent ones ( s/o Zaddy Antonio)"

later adding in another tweet "I only let queer men do my work bc they understand at least something about souls."

https://twitter.com/jeremyoharris/status/1213989076375748608

1. Assuming straight men can't understand something about the soul is baffling and the implication that if they do understand something about the soul that makes the "gay adjacent"

2. Wouldn't limiting male performers in his work to only queer men be an illegal discrimination based on sexual orientation? Especially when some of his characters are straight?

y'all really getting upset over nothing... please get a sense of humor and start seasoning your food

Maybe it's just me, but I feel that attitudes like this only serve to create an even larger "us-them" mentality in our already-polarized country.

He seems to like being an influencer more than a playwright... and if Black Exhibition was any indication, he needs to spend more focus on being a playwright.

My first reaction was 'who?'

My 2nd reaction after googling his name was 'who cares?'

There is a between the lines irony here for sure. It's a tweet. I'd imagine him saying it at brunch on his third mimosa.

ModernMillie3 said: "Seems hejust wants to be famous and to get people talking about him."

Seems like he has talent enough to back up the fame, based on the only play I have seen of his.
I think y'all are blowing this way out of proportion. I'm sure a few years from now, he'll look back at that comment as a throwaway and nothing more. Plenty of gay men and straight women joke at the expense of straight men's lack of depth. I'm sure most of you said "spoken like a cis white man" or some variation of that to your closest friends (or have had it used on you). It's not always coming from a place of hatred. Chill out.

Ya, as someone who was and used to be a big supporter of his, I can't anymore. If I were Paul Nolan id call out for the rest of the run. Some people call this a "joke" or for us to calm down, but this is just plain stupid. Thats the issue, its incredibly stupid and ignorant to think like this. Let alone tweet it. As someone else said, only helps with the Us vs Them mentality. God why can't people even TRY to respect others??

This is exact reasons why social media is just ruining society. Does Jeremy truly believe this? Idk, I'm sure to some extent but of course the tweet was played up a bit because he has a platform. The main thing is this is unnecessary and only fuels to actual haters, not "twitter haters", ya know ACTUAL racists and homophobes. This adds nothing positive to our community. Shame this is how he uses his platform, its all so unnecessary and childish. Like dude just stop.

I'm just over here like...