Guy Pearce Apologizes for Questioning the Roles Trans Actors Can Play: ‘I Understand How It’s Insensitive’
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Guy Pearce issued a lengthy apology statement on Twitter after he generated backlash for a controversial statement on transgender actors.
In a since-deleted tweet, the “Memento” and “Mare of Easttown” actor mused about the roles trans actors can play. “A question — if the only people allowed to play trans characters are trans folk, then are we also suggesting the only people trans folk can play are trans characters?” Pearce wrote. “Surely that will limit your career as an actor?
Isn’t the point of an actor to be able play anyone outside your own world?” While apologizing for “crassly focusing” on an “already-harassed minority,” Pearce also wrote: “I see that raising the question of gender identity within the casting process on a platform like Twitter was not a good idea.
For that, I apologize, enormously. I acknowledge it has only stirred up and inflamed attitudes and made us all dig our heels in.
