TLOU isn't some unknown niche product. Both the game's story and the massive hate camp it gets is well known and talked about.
Any actress who accepts the role knows what it will bring, so I can't feel bad for someone egotistical enough to accept it anyway. Especially as they also know they will be required to promote it in that vile, aggressive manner.
Its one thing for like, the kid who played Anakin Skywalker. He was just in a movie that was bad and the fans acted like assholes as if it was his fault. Its another thing entirely to act in an IP deliberately designed to be hateful and derogatory to people, then being upset those people respond in kind.
Yeah I felt bad for the actress that played Rey in the Woke Trilogy as she was just doing a job (and did okay giving the shit she had to work with). I despised her character for many reasons, of course.
However, her signing on for another woke trilogy centered around her being a self-insert to the most vile misandrists they could find to direct/write it puts her in the same camp as them as far as I'm concerned.
The thing is, this isn't just some role in a throwaway movie. Its a major AAA production. Signing on for that means signing on for all of it. The media tour, the promotion, the moralizing. Having to run defense for the company and the production against the people you might offend.
If they come out and say "I don't agree with the message here, it was just my job" then I agree with you. But you can't do that unless you are a megastar level actor, else you don't work anymore. So you are either complicit or picky with your roles.
I'm not telling people to go out and do it as the first blow (if they start talking shit obviously that changes), but I'm also not surprised or empathic when it does. That's the nature of the game you are playing.
TLOU isn't some unknown niche product. Both the game's story and the massive hate camp it gets is well known and talked about.
Any actress who accepts the role knows what it will bring, so I can't feel bad for someone egotistical enough to accept it anyway. Especially as they also know they will be required to promote it in that vile, aggressive manner.
Its one thing for like, the kid who played Anakin Skywalker. He was just in a movie that was bad and the fans acted like assholes as if it was his fault. Its another thing entirely to act in an IP deliberately designed to be hateful and derogatory to people, then being upset those people respond in kind.
Yeah I felt bad for the actress that played Rey in the Woke Trilogy as she was just doing a job (and did okay giving the shit she had to work with). I despised her character for many reasons, of course.
However, her signing on for another woke trilogy centered around her being a self-insert to the most vile misandrists they could find to direct/write it puts her in the same camp as them as far as I'm concerned.
The thing is, this isn't just some role in a throwaway movie. Its a major AAA production. Signing on for that means signing on for all of it. The media tour, the promotion, the moralizing. Having to run defense for the company and the production against the people you might offend.
If they come out and say "I don't agree with the message here, it was just my job" then I agree with you. But you can't do that unless you are a megastar level actor, else you don't work anymore. So you are either complicit or picky with your roles.
I'm not telling people to go out and do it as the first blow (if they start talking shit obviously that changes), but I'm also not surprised or empathic when it does. That's the nature of the game you are playing.