Armando Iannucci…

I think that is how it’s spelt. I can’t be bothered to look it up. In line with this more speculative cunting. He has written or directed the new David Copperfield film with an Asian in the lead.

Cut to it. The byline I saw was we must be ‘colour blind’ when it comes to casting. Now I’m not one of those who says let them all fuck off. They’re here. We have to make the best of it, but how can you be colour BLIND when you are by definition WATCHING actors. You just can’t do it. Cyrano de Bergerac had a big nose. Depardieu had a big big nose as well, so was well-suited to playing him. But what if they made a new version of the detective series Bergerac and the actor had a huge great enormous nose. Wouldn’t there be whispers the next day,  “yes, I thought the storyline was good, but didn’t you think the actor had a big nose?” My point here is that the way a person looks is a crucial part of the success, or not, of a drama. CASTING is crucial in other words.

I simply don’t know what the answer is. Well, I do. But it is radical. Maybe the only thing that will make it work is all Asians dramas or all black productions. Laurence Fox comes to mind. I dearly wish that he would address this issue. But he would certainly be blackballed. A bit unfeasible that.

But the thing is just not working, certainly. Think recently of “A Christmas Carol” and “Dracula” – totally fucked up dramas. To quote an esteemed cunter Norman, ‘the disease that is Diversity ruins everything’.

I forgot I was trying to be positive. “My Beautiful Launderette” all those years ago was a success. That was because it was real. What is happening now is that directors are miscasting Asians or blacks in ‘agenda driven’, unreal, positive roles. What has got to be forged are accurate (good or bad) Asian/black characters. That is the only answer.

Nominated by Miles Plastic