'It's like blackface': Alec Baldwin slammed by disabled groups for accepting lead role in movie about a blind man

Oh...everybody is outraged by everything. We can't deal. Did they want a blind man to take the role and read all the scripts in braille?

They'd call a blind actor playing a sighted part otherly abled progress.

Good good, it's nothing like black face. He's an actor....actors act like other people. They need a big name (Alec is....pretty huge) and doy they not understand the concept of insurance which wouldn't be so high using an actor who can see? Blackface were white people using black stereotypes with a painted black face...."sho' nuff cuz I's say tah mah massah......" Alec isn't "cooning" and he ain't "shuck and jiving".

Actors have been playing blind people for years. Why all the fuss now? PC warriors? Yup.

R3 by huge I meant DAMN he got big in the gut.

Blackface is Scaramooch playing a Long Islander. Isn't Baldwin from Massapequa?

How stupid!

R3 meant Good God....shit what is wrong with me tonight?

This is yet another "Let's put up another bullshit article about liberals to shore up our stupid alt-right base" piece from that cum rag Daily Mail.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,

fuck em all

sick of this we are dainty little flowers who are offended by, well, name ANYTHING...... and we will be offended.

and we will rag on you about it also.

eat me.

Are there any big name blind actors?

This is why Trumpussolini will probably win again in 2020.

SJWs have destroyed the Democratic Party.

Acting is appropriation! We should only allow real architects to play architects in future. (Robert Reed is responsible for thousands of architect deaths since just last week you know) No more fake doctors on tv, only REAL doctors, fuck the health system, we don't need doctors in hospital, we need them in film sets.

Only murderers should play murderers?

Good thing Audrey Hepburn isn't still around otherwise these people would be tearing her to shreds for playing Suzie in Wait Until Dark. Ditto Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch Of Blue.

Crip face!

And yet the SJWs are all for biological appropriation, or would that be "DNA appropriation"?

The Regressive Left goes after a professional actor, Alec Baldwin, for playing a blind man in a movie, but gives courage awards to Bruce Jenner for wearing WomanFace in real life, not in the make-believe world of film.

And they get indignant when their hypocrisy is pointed out.

So all movies should be documentaries now? No actor should play any role that does not resemble his life. What a ridiculous idea!

R18

Yes.

But everyone on the planet can play a character written as a white man and get awards for it.

Fuck the underclass overlords.

Shouldn't the blind people see the movie first before they condemn it?

He just can't win.

I needed a doll after I read this.....

Fucking ridiculous!

"This film script has all the feels" -- Braille sensitivity reader

This is completely fucking out of control. What's next - will people protest the Oscars if Sally Hawkins is nominated for The Shape of Water? After all, I'm sure Marlee Matlin was available to play the part!

He is an ass either way.

Only Deaf Actors should play deaf.

"CUT!!!!! CUT!!!!!! I SAID FUCKING CUT!!!!!!!!!!"

Blind blind or legally blind? Big difference.

Also is "legally blonde" an ableist slur? Methinks it is. BOYCOTT.

(Somebody simulcast this in Braille. I'm dictating to my Navajo burn victim trans secretary.)

It must be SO exhausting being a progressive and maintaining a proper outrage over so many vital things.

𝑪𝒚𝒏𝒅𝒊 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅!

Is it okay to accept a supporting role?

All I can think about right now is my favorite installment of Strangers with Candy, the episode "Behind Blank Eyes."

What the... ? We won Oscars for playing vision-impaired people.

Stevie Wonder and Ronnie Millsap both passed on this project.

Oedipus declined. Also blind community says he doesn't count. They prefer Tyresius.

It's called ACTING.

If Helen Keller were here, she'd be rolling her blind eyes over this shit.

It's not comparable to blackface. The origins of blackface lie in racist mockery and stereotyping. The whole point of acting is that you're playing someone other than yourself. If it's automatically offensive for an able-bodied person to play a disabled person, you might as well say it's offensive for actors to wear "poor-face" and play characters of lower socioeconomic status than themselves.

Jamie Foxx in BlindFace.

Oh no!

R26, I hope that was a real creature playing the Creature in the movie.