Not entirely giddy about re-kicking the hornet's nest but you'd have thought I went back in time and pushed Rosa Parks into a mud puddle, given the response I got from a few folks on Twitter when I
dared to defend Armie Hammer against that shitty BuzzFeed article (nope, no link from me) the other week by noting that Armie was a lousy example for the author to use for the piece (which could have made its point well if it'd bothered to be thoughtful about it) since he's spent the past several years working on projects that have been put together by people less privileged than he. (If you just speak the name Nate Parker now you get called a rape apologist, apparently.)
Anyway Armie is once again putting his privilege where his mouth is and taking it to the stage where
he's going to co-star in the show
Straight White Men (thx Mac), which was written by Korean-American playwright Young Jean Lee and which is all about dissecting the titular's privilege in the world. The show already ran Off-Broadway back in 2014 - there's a
terrific interview with Lee from that time over at NPR in which she talks about the process of writing this play that you should definitely read, and which makes it sound like fascinating stuff, and one of the can't miss shows of 2018.
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