Guy Pearce Issues Lengthy Apology Following Trans Tweet
deadline.comLA Confidential and Memento star Guy Pearce has made a lengthy apology after tweeting about the debate around roles for trans actors.
Pearce, whose breakout role was as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, had questioned the debate around trans actors playing both trans and non-trans characters in a now-deleted tweet.
Pearce had written: “A question – if the only people allowed to play trans characters r trans folk, then r we also suggesting the only people trans folk can play r trans characters.
Surely that will limit ur career as an actor? Isn’t the point of an actor to be able play anyone outside ur own world?” He had then engaged with several respondents, debating the roles available to trans actors and saying this was “a very different point” to the one he was making.
