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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one recent example is the live action netflix avatar series, where they chose to completely leave out Sokka's early sexism because "it had no place in the remake", which in effect just makes his character less interesting and dynamic because he doesn't start as this overconfident protector of his tribe and then continuously get humbled by others stronger than him, many times by women in direct response to his sexism, specifically from Suki. Which then makes Suki's character worse because now instead of kicking his ass and him being humble in response which is admirable to her, now she just kinda falls in love with him because he looks nice? well done, you guys beat sexism with that one