Actor Penn Badgley: Too Many ‘Privileged Ass White People’ in Hollywood
by Justin Caruso
BreitBart.com
22 Dec 2018
Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley called out Hollywood and the overwhelming amount of “privileged ass white people” in the entertainment industry in a new interview, attacking its lack of diversity.
“If anybody exists at any kind of intersection of oppression beyond the box of white male, I’d say let’s make damn sure that they’re being represented by the people who have lived this experience [and] not have people who haven’t lived the experience portraying them,” Penn Badgley told PinkNews.
Badgley also sounded off on the controversy around “privileged” actors playing the roles of “marginalized” characters.
“In theory, in a totally just society, yeah, anybody can play anybody and that would be great,” he said, adding, “But that’s not the world we live in. We live in a world that does not [recognize] virtually anyone outside of the white male or the beautiful white woman who has to be an object of desire and affection.”
The 32-year-old also simply attacked white actors, saying, “In reality, we have basically, like, privileged ass white people playing everybody, and so we need to stop that.”
The debate over whether actors should be taking roles that don’t match their actual gender and race has become a hot topic in Hollywood over the last few years.
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