The Preseident clarifies things; Lewis Black wants to make your day better; There was a distubance in the friend force; and a reboot I can get behind…
Bonus Scoopage:
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is getting some heat for his latest movie. Not because it wasn’t very good, but for the character he played. Johnson was criticized by an amputee actress for playing an amputee in his latest movie Skyscraper. Actress Katy Sullivan — a Paralympian and “a double above-the-knee amputee from birth” — put it to Johnson plainly in an open letter she wrote to him for Deadline: “My request is for you to stop saying ‘Yes’ to roles like the one in that movie.”
Sullivan cited a study which found that in last year’s TV season, fewer than two percent of characters were written to have a disability — and of those characters, 95 percent of the roles “were filled with able-bodied actors.” And “While I am thrilled that a film about a kick-*** veteran and father (who is a unilateral below-the-knee amputee) got greenlit in the first place, the problem is this perpetuates the fact that we’re not given the agency to tell our own stories.”