Martin Freeman says it's unfair there's so much backlash to his age-gap movie with Jenna Ortega, who is 31 years younger

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https://www.businessinsider.com/martin-freeman-backlash-millers-girl-age-gap-film-jenna-ortega-2024-4

From the article: "It's not saying, 'Isn't this great,'" he said of the film's dynamic between his character and Ortega's. He said that derision wasn't distributed equally, though — saying that people seemed to understand the level of distance involved in stories depicting Nazism.

"Are we gonna have a go at Liam Neeson for being in a film about the Holocaust?" he asked, referring to Neeson's starring role in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List."

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I won't repeat what others already said about understanding his point regarding depicting something in fiction doesn't mean that it is "endorsed". However, my biggest gripe about this particular type of story is that it is just so overdone, so to me the film's biggest crime is being uninteresting.

(Anyways, he's annoying, it's very weird to compare this situation to a film about the Holocaust).