The new movie Stonewall has been the target of boycotts and the recipient of some unflattering reviews. To add fuel to the fire director Roland Emmerich has used the term “straight acting” to describe the hero at the center of Stonewall, saying in an interview with BuzzFeed:
“You have to understand one thing: I didn’t make this movie only for gay people, I made it also for straight people. I kind of found out, in the testing process, that actually, for straight people, [Danny] is a very easy in. Danny’s very straight-acting. He gets mistreated because of that. [Straight audiences] can feel for him.”
This certainly lit Matt Baume’s fire stating on YouTube, “I’m absolutely furious that Stonewall director Roland Emmerich would have the gall to use the term “straight acting” to describe the hero of his new film. In so doing, he’s guilty of the exact type of oppression that the real-life rioters were fighting. The Stonewall Riots were a lot of things, but “straight acting” was never one of them.”
Watch Baume take Emmerich to task in the video above.
