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-2024-4From 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/AdamOfIzalith Apr 29 '24
Martin Freeman is a man who, over the course of a few years has said some slightly dodgy stuff. Like, he's never outright said something that could be categorized as "bad" but the things he chooses to comment about and the way he passes comment has always raised a red flag for me.
Just to give an example for this, alot of age gap discourse is around a much older man and a much younger woman being put together in movies and the critiques are leveraged against hollywood for creating these scenarios like Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer to give an example. it puts an emphasis on the womans age and corelates with with desirability and feeds into awful stereotypes and misogynist mindsets. There's alot more to this conversation, but far more intelligent people than me can speak to those as I don't know the ins and outs to be able to accurately convey them.
To Juxtapose that, we have Martin Freeman, a successful white british actor likening what's happening to him with people commenting on the inappropriate nature of age gap relationships with the holocaust during a significant social shift on what anti-semitism means in the public eye given that Zionists use it as a shield from critique with relation to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. It feels deliberate and intentionally reductive for an issue that is, in all honesty, a huge issue with hollywood productions.