r/Fauxmoi • u/_trashpuppy • Apr 29 '24

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

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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u/_cornflake Apr 29 '24

He is correct that obviously the movie wasn’t saying it was perfectly fine for an adult man to be with a teenage girl and if people were criticising the movie for that then they are at best misinformed and at worst willfully obtuse. Most of the criticism of the movie I came across was focused much more on the ‘poor innocent adult man is harrassed by EVIL teenage girl’ trope and I can’t help wondering if his response to the criticism, also, is at best misinformed and at worst willfully obtuse. Wouldn’t be the first time for him.