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[somedaybitch]

here's a surprise: Cruise in the middle of a controversy. i know, shocking....oh wait.

i think the hissy fit about him being a Scientologist is silly, because really, there are more important things to oppose that casting over, like, i don't know, he's not German? i don't see why someone as skillful a director as Bryan Singer isn't smart enough to recognize that other countries do, in fact, have really, really talented actors. and when you're making a movie about one of Germany's national freakin' heroes maybe Singer could remember guys like this.

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[boogieordie.livejournal.com]

Singer should know better.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

you'd think, wouldn't you? i mean, he doesn't strike as all "Hollywood is God". though, i suppose if Cruise's, er, studio, is developing the film then Singer wouldn't really have much choice. still....grrrrr.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I don't like Cruise because he's nuts, not because he does Scientology. But seriously, you would think someone else would do a better job.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

it's not even that i think he isn't talented, because i do enjoy his acting. it's just, i don't know...maybe i'm being hypocritical because when Spielberg made his holocaust film i didn't bat an eye that Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes weren't German, but that was quite some time ago and i wasn't as aware of the depth of talent on the world's acting stage.

i think maybe it's the sort of default arrogance implied in it; you know, not that we don't have brilliantly talented actors but so does everybody else, yo.

like why i'm so proud of Rowling for insisting that a film set in England, dealing with all UK characters in an all UK story should be frakking cast with all UK actors, ffs. there was no excuse whatsoever to even consider non-UK actors for the roles.