Silence of the Lambs team regrets transphobic themes

One of the stupider things right now.

Part of the whole point is that he WANTS to be transexual. He is not, and that is part of his psychoses.

They explicitly say repeatedly that he is not trans.

The funny thing is, both the movie and the book make it clear that the main antagonist wasn't really a tranny, though he wanted to be.

Yeah, and maybe John Wayne should regret playing an Asian in "The Conqueror".

Maybe Warner Oland, a Swedish/American actor should come back from the grave and denounce his portrayal of the Chinese detective Charlie Chan.

Or how about all the white actors who portrayed Native Americans for decades in Hollywood. Hell, just yesterday I saw an episode of "Gunsmoke" where Leonard Nimoy played a Piute Indian but still managed to speak exactly like his later character "Spock".

frick apologizing for a 15 minute role in a movie made over 35 years ago.

I thought we had moved past apologizing to the trannies? Oh well.

Lost respect for him and his deep voice. Trannies are indeed mentally ill.

Bottom line.

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I didn’t play him as being gay or trans. I think he was just a fricked-up heterosexual man. That’s what I was doing.”

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I think he is fibbing here.

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Go listen to the stooges on The Rewatchables try to get through the their Ace Ventura podcast. Genuinly don't know how they did it because the film is so "problematic."

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It’s] just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender,” says the actor. “It’s unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it’s fricking wrong. And you can quote me on that.”

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But it isn't entirely inaccurate.

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As for his performance, Levine clarifies, “I didn’t play him as being gay or trans. I think he was just a fricked-up heterosexual man. That’s what I was doing.”

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Which tends to be the case a disproportionate amount of time.

Meanwhile, another troon shot up a school the other day.

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Go listen to the stooges on The Rewatchables try to get through the their Ace Ventura podcast. Genuinly don't know how they did it because the film is so "problematic."

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Eh, that doesn't really strike me as problematic because the character isn't "trans" - they had a sex change as a method of hiding.

That said, if Ace Ventura was trying to be anything other than an absurdist comedy, one would then question how the character became head of a police department in a major city without a background check coming back with huge holes in it. I could see them getting a lot of jobs, but one would hope that - even back then - your police chief was vetted at least a LITTLE.