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<p dir="auto"><strong>Thomasina</strong> — <em>9 years ago(August 04, 2016 10:07 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">I find it stunning that people are having trouble understanding this, but when an actor plays a role, he pretends to be a different person. That's the job. George Clooney is not really an emergency room doctor. Denzel Washington is not really Malcolm X. Harrison Ford is not really an archaeologist or a spaceship pilot. And Bradley Cooper is not actually a sniper, any more than he is really an ill-tempered space racoon whose best friend is a tree.<br />
Here is a very experienced actor to explain the principle to everyone who seems to be having trouble with it:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I cannot believe the amount of political responses that are relating an ACTOR to a ROLE. It's like saying Sir Anthony Hopkins should be a cannibal. Insane.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Again, the problem is when they get paid millions of $ to glorify guns and violence, have enough money to hire security to guard them and their family using guns, and then tell people they shouldn't have guns.<br />
Would I think he's wrong for supporting Trump? Yes, but because Trump is clearly a crazy person<br />
And yet he is no more crazy that Hillary.  I'm not a big supporter of his, but she is EXACTLY what is wrong with our country.  Politicians who believe they are entitled to everything they want, taking millions and millions of $ from corporations and other countries and giving those companies and countries special consideration in return.<br />
She's also a great example of what I'm referring to about actors hypocrisy.  She calls herself a feminist, but instead of leaving Bill, she stayed with him even though he continued to cheat and sexually assaulted women.<br />
That goes to her character, or lack thereof.</p>
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<p dir="auto">So if Cooper had portrayed one of your heroes, such as Che Guevara or Fidel Castro, and then supported Donald Trump, would you be saying the same thing?<br />
Are you talking to me? (It is sometimes hard to tell in these boards' "nest" format.)<br />
If so, why would Che Guevara or Fidel Castro ever be my heroes? Guevara was a thug and hypocrite who let his ideology justify his own crimes and the crimes of those he supported. Castro was a totalitarian dictator whose policies were a disaster for human rights and free speech.<br />
But if an actor played one of them and then supported Trump, I would not consider that a contradiction, since only one of those things (his real-life personal support of Trump) would be an expression of his actual personal opinions. The acting would just be<br />
acting<br />
. Would I think he's wrong for supporting Trump? Yes, but because Trump is clearly a crazy person, not because o5b4f any role the actor had played in the past.</p>
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<p dir="auto">So if Cooper had portrayed one of your heroes, such as Che Guevara or Fidel Castro, and then supported Donald Trump, would you be saying the same thing?</p>
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<p dir="auto">You are a bully and a POS. Shut up.<br />
Sounds more like you. Why don't YOU shut-up.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Zimmerman is less of my hero than a pedophile like Polanski is yours, you little pansy pedophile.</p>
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<p dir="auto">You are a bully and a POS. Shut up.<br />
P.S. George Zimmerman is your hero.</p>
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<p dir="auto">And Bradley Cooper is not actually a sniper,<br />
The problem is when they get paid millions of $ to glorify guns and violence, have enough money to hire security to guard them and their family using guns, and then tell people they shouldn't have guns.<br />
Same thing when they boast about having an electric car and chastise people for driving SUV's and the such because of how bad it is for the environment - and they just made $10 million for starring in a movie which wrecked 10 cars, had numerous explosions and are flying all over the world in a private jet (as well as riding in a limo) to promote that movie.</p>
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