Comments on: Soap actress whose “personal beliefs” made her uneasy with “One Life to Live” gay plot replaced http://greginhollywood.com/actress-uneasy-with-one-life-to-live-gay-plot-replaced-7493 Veteran Hollywood reporter Greg Hernandez covers the gay celebrity scene, bringing you the scoop from newsmakers, creative types and keeping you up to day on entertainment, LGBT and political news. Tue, 22 May 2012 01:40:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: PreviousViewer http://greginhollywood.com/actress-uneasy-with-one-life-to-live-gay-plot-replaced-7493/comment-page-1#comment-1741 PreviousViewer Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:43:40 +0000 http://greginhollywood.com/?p=7493#comment-1741 Her job was to act, not to write. If she couldn't perform her job, it is understandable that they found someone else who could. Actors don't need to (and probably rarely do) believe what the characters they portray believe. One doesn't need to complete medical school to play a doctor on TV, one doesn't need to be straight to play a heterosexual love scene, one doesn't need to commit murder to play a psycho killer (Qu'est-ce que c'est), etc. Perhaps the character is so devoutly Catholic that she wouldn't necessarily be wild about homosexuality; maybe the character is also so loving as a mother that she wouldn't alienate her child if she thought he was gay. That's for the writers to decide. If an actor feels they can not bring to life a character with whom they do not agree, then there's nothing wrong with opting out of the role. Opting out of a role due to personal qualms regarding the differences between oneself and the fictional precludes one from the right to complain. Her job was to act, not to write. If she couldn’t perform her job, it is understandable that they found someone else who could. Actors don’t need to (and probably rarely do) believe what the characters they portray believe. One doesn’t need to complete medical school to play a doctor on TV, one doesn’t need to be straight to play a heterosexual love scene, one doesn’t need to commit murder to play a psycho killer (Qu’est-ce que c’est), etc.

Perhaps the character is so devoutly Catholic that she wouldn’t necessarily be wild about homosexuality; maybe the character is also so loving as a mother that she wouldn’t alienate her child if she thought he was gay. That’s for the writers to decide.

If an actor feels they can not bring to life a character with whom they do not agree, then there’s nothing wrong with opting out of the role. Opting out of a role due to personal qualms regarding the differences between oneself and the fictional precludes one from the right to complain.

]]> By: Steve Callahan http://greginhollywood.com/actress-uneasy-with-one-life-to-live-gay-plot-replaced-7493/comment-page-1#comment-931 Steve Callahan Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:19:50 +0000 http://greginhollywood.com/?p=7493#comment-931 Sad. I always thought that she was a really good actress. Now I'll just remember her as a bigot. Sad. I always thought that she was a really good actress. Now I’ll just remember her as a bigot.

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