DEAR HOLLYWOOD (my casting gripe) Please stop casting lower middle class and upp

DEAR HOLLYWOOD

(my casting gripe)

Please stop casting lower middle class and upper proletarian actors in upper middle class and upper class professional and intellectual roles.

Please stop writing dramatic sequences between professionals that would only be spoken by blue collar and white collar clerical workers. I mean, go watch and Aaron Sorkin movie if you have to. But you know, impulsivity and emotionalism decline rapidly with competence.

I mean, it’s embarrassing – and it eliminates any possibility of suspension of disbelief.

You get one ‘gimme’ in any bit of literature. If you put together say, a sci fi movie, then you need the characters to work. If you put together a contemporary drama the ‘gimme’ can be the characters.

But seriously. I mean, these things are expensive.