Posted: 10/23/15 at 2:33pm
I've always thought that since the story is so based in sexuality, that it renders gender/sex swapped casting inappropriate, like how color-blind casting is inappropriate for racially charged stories.
Posted: 10/23/15 at 2:38pm
I guess I assumed she'd be playing Frank as dude, though, making only the gender of the actor, not the character, different.
But I still really don't understand what this is going to be - a straightforward presentation of the play (or more likely, the movie), an update, and reimagining or what - so who knows?
Updated On: 10/23/15 at 02:38 PM
Posted: 10/23/15 at 2:53pm
"Don't get strung out by the way I look." Like ... a beautiful woman? This casting is dumb, but then, nothing about this production is not dumb to me, starting with its existence.
Posted: 10/23/15 at 6:02pm
Nothing against Laverne Cox, but I'm disappointed that she's been cast in this role. Would you cast a male actor to play Maria in a remake of The Sound of Music? Frank is a transvestite (from Transsexual Transylvania). What's so outrageous about seeing Laverne Cox in a corset and fishnet stockings? Unless they're going to re-imagine it and make Frank a woman who dresses in men's clothes, the casting is all wrong. I'm a traditionalist. IMO, Frank should be played by a man. I still think Adam Lambert would have been a great choice.
Posted: 10/23/15 at 6:07pm
I agree re Adam Lambert. In fact, I think he's the only choice.
Posted: 10/23/15 at 6:15pm
https://youtu.be/6HK0Y16-0i0?t=19s
The only thing I can find Laverne singing is karaoke...
Posted: 10/23/15 at 6:40pm
Lord knows now that Lea Michelle is on Fox they're gonna push her for Janet.
Posted: 10/23/15 at 7:00pm
everythingtaboo said: "https://youtu.be/6HK0Y16-0i0?t=19s
The only thing I can find Laverne singing is karaoke..."
WOW.
Posted: 10/23/15 at 11:49pm
http://nypost.com/2015/10/23/laverne-cox-not-seasoned-enough-to-play-tim-currys-rocky-horror-role/
It's like he used our postings (especially mine) from this thread as his copy.
Posted: 10/24/15 at 12:02am
I think the key here is that it's not live.
Posted: 10/24/15 at 12:49am
They should have cast RuPaul.
Posted: 10/24/15 at 8:09am
Sharon Needles should have gotten this part.
Posted: 10/24/15 at 8:26am
I just can't see it working - Laverne Cox is a woman and I don't think Frank can be played effectively by a woman. I saw Sweet Transvestite performed by a woman (who does look masculine enough that she previously stepped in as a last minute replacement in a drag queen show!) and while it was a great performance, particular as she had a sexy female ensemble, including a female Rocky on a leash, it still lacked a LOT of the shock, humour, etc. that you experience seeing what is clearly a man in a corset, fishnets and outrageous makeup.
Craig McLachlan was a fantastic Frank in Australia, but unfortunately his name won't carry the same weight in the States as it does here or in the UK.
Posted: 10/24/15 at 8:31am
Plus the fact that she's just not a good actress.
Posted: 10/24/15 at 8:49am
That's fantastic!
Great casting, type-wise.
I hope people on this board won't hyperventilate in anger about this casting, because a transgender plays a man, while she has fought so hard for acceptance in real life.
Bless her, a real actress who gets over herself and can play anything. The beginning of a changing world.
Updated On: 10/24/15 at 08:49 AM
Posted: 10/24/15 at 8:51am
Mr. Nowack said: "gender/sex swapped casting inappropriate, like how color-blind casting is inappropriate for racially charged stories."
Oh, there we go.
Who cares that she is a woman? She might play the role as a man.
Personal characteristics versus role. Called acting.
Updated On: 10/24/15 at 08:51 AM
Posted: 10/24/15 at 8:53am
everythingtaboo said: "https://youtu.be/6HK0Y16-0i0?t=19s
The only thing I can find Laverne singing is karaoke...
"
Mmmm she doesn't seem to be a proper singer though....
Was she really better at the casting than everyone else?
Updated On: 10/24/15 at 08:53 AM
Posted: 10/24/15 at 9:40am
I'm trying to have hope - I mean it is Kenny Ortega directing, and he knows his way around casting and making stars. But i hate that I wonder if he or Fox cast her for her story and the goodwill she carries with her.
Posted: 10/24/15 at 10:17am
Dave19 said: "Was she really better at the casting than everyone else?"
How do you know she beat other people and wasn't just their choice from the beginning? Also, there were rumors of her going into Hedwig a few months ago because she was taking lessons with a vocal coach, so...
Posted: 10/25/15 at 11:45am
Phyllis Rogers Stone said: " What will Frank say instead of mental mind fukc?
"
In the British broadcast he just said it and BBC America beeped it loudly. They were already beeping some comments shouted from the audience.
