Mad Max actors explaining to fans that they aren't their fictional characters seems like a not great sign for our media literary

My recommendation for him is to leave Twitter. You can't expect most of them to have common sense. Let alone separate fiction from reality.

it would blow people’s minds to learn that Jean Martin, the actor who played Col. Mathieu in The Battle of Algiers, fought in the French Resistance 20 years earlier

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Malcolm McDowell got death threats for "killing" Captain Kirk.

I can almost guarantee that the (irrational) thinking here is something along the lines of, "why would you play a character who does Terrible Things if you didn't like/do Terrible Things yourself?" It's terrible and exhausting and I wish people would learn how to THINK again.

From the people who brought you, what do you mean I'm not supposed to take the medicine with the horsey on the box?

There are people who believed sherlock holmes was a real life person.

It is no easy task to get most people to understand that they, too, are projecting onto actors.

We’re not the same. You hate actors because they pretend to do bad things. I hate actors because they actually do bad things.

“Oh yeah they cast me because I have so much in common with this character”