asmodesgold replied to your post: “I wonder how all those LGBT actors in the X-men franchise, many of...”:
Hmm hadn't thought about that
I mean, that’s kind of my point. People have been so eager to dismiss Ezra Miller’s accomplishment, which is unprecedented, that they’re ascribing this bitterness to a group of people who have not agreed to it just to make the franchise that has spent almost two decades shoving them out of view so there’s more room in the spotlight for Hugh Jackman look like some bastion of progressiveness.
Like, no, I’m not going to give the XMCU a pat on the back for allowing a bisexual man to play Nightcrawler when he was a background character in one film and then the actor was never asked back again. They don’t get cookies for casting a lesbian as Kitty Pryde (before they knew she was gay) and then, after she came out, adapting a Kitty Pryde story arc for the screen but replacing her with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Or how about Anna Paquin, who was also cast when she was closeted, quickly had her role in the movies pared down when she came out, and then finally they actually had her film an entire subplot for a movie that they completely cut her from. We can talk about the moral aspects of the X-Men franchise all we want, but the fact is also that Magneto is the antagonist in the films, and it would be denial to act like Ian McKellan is the star of his own legal franchise (especially since he’s now been replaced by a straight actor). Also, as great as it is that the actress playing Negasonic got such a cool job, the fact is that Negasonic Teenage Warhead is a background character in a movie starring (as far as we know) a straight actor.
But, people are so desperate to discredit any good things that come out of a DC movie that I guess now they’re deluding themselves into thinking the X-Men movie franchise hasn’t been shoving its LGB actors out of the picture since day one.
