Director Blasts Proposed ‘Hairspray’ Boycott
July 20th, 2007 by Sam
Hairspray director Adam Shankman has hit back at a journalist who is proposing a boycott of the film because its star John Travolta has “no business” playing an iconic gay character. The Saturday Night Fever actor stars as super-sized woman Edna Turnblad in the latest adaptation of the kitsch musical, angering the editor of gay newspaper Washington Blade, Kevin Naff. Naff claims Travolta should never have been cast in the role because his religion Scientology is “homophobic.” He is an actor and is doing what the role requires him to do, so why are the journalists bothered about him playing a gay, if they feel so jealous then they might as well produce their own version of Hairspray and enact the role the way they want to see it. And if it is just coz he believes in Scientology, then please grow up u guys, since when has religion gotta a connection with acting powerness of a person. He is an actor. He is acting a part that just happens to be of a woman. Get over it journalist. Why not do what you do best and bore us with another article on Paris?????? lol, and Lindsay is just out of rehab, you should be working overtime for this s*it news rather.
