Ironically, the actor, Jared Leto, is a moonbat Obama supporter.
Via Newsbusters:
Few spectacles are more satisfying than watching the left eat its own. That’s especially true when conscientious liberals find that speech or actions that were common-place weeks or months ago are suddenly taboo among other lefties. Witness what happened when poor, hapless Piers Morgan recently fawned over a transgender guest but was crucified for not slavishly memorizing the latest acceptable LGBT (Etc.) terminology.
Something similar has happened to Jared Leto. His crime was being a straight actor who sympathetically played a transgender in “Dallas Buyers Club,” which is in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars on Sunday.
When a heckler at a Santa Barbara event accused actor Jared Leto of “trans-misogyny” for “portraying a trans-woman, because you’re a man,” Leto retorted, “Because I’m a man, I don’t deserve to play that part?” He continued, “So you would hold a role against someone who happened to be gay or lesbian — they can’t play a straight part?” While his comment won applause from the audience, the usual media suspects conspicuously did not have Leto’s back.
“Dallas Buyers Club” boasts six Oscar nominations, including “Actor in a Supporting Role” for Jared Leto’s portrayal of Rayon, an HIV-positive transgender woman. “Dallas Buyers Club” tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) who smuggles drugs to help AIDS patients after he himself is diagnosed.
Susan Rohwer lamented in an L.A. Times piece, “the role should’ve gone to a trans actor.” She charged, “It is no longer acceptable to cast cross-racially, so why is it acceptable to cast someone who is not transgender in a transgender role?”
While GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) nominated the film for its own media awards, several gay news organizations opposed the film’s choice of Leto. The Advocate said, via Parker Marie Malloy, “the heckler did raise an interesting question: why didn’t the role go to a transgender actress?” and argued “In the rare instances where large-scale transgender characters are written into a script, the roles often go to cisgender [that’s non-transgender in out Brave New World-Speak] actors.”