Where to begin perhaps with Maslany’s recent comments that all cinema is inherently political and so for an actor to not scream their politics at you is cowardice. Paw Patrol isn’t a political Tatiana.
The fact is for some actors they realise that they have hit a ceiling in their career they realise they aren’t ever going to be in the big leagues they will be stuck in supporting roles forever. So they open their mouth and try the activist game, this happened to Emma Watson and it’s happening to Maslany. After how Maslany behaved during the Hollywood strike she is not ever going to get leading roles outside of an indie film ever again, she knows this hence the activism. It’s like a chapter 2 for failed actors.
Then you have the other side of the coin the delusion. Florence Pugh is likely at the top of her career, she can see the same ceiling as Maslany but she isn’t too bothered. Right now due to her being one of the main phase 4+5 characters of the MCU she feels untouchable so she thinks she can get away with grandstanding. These sort of actors think they have a right or a need to educate and re-educate audiences to their way of thinking, they also seem to think they could make a difference.
The fact is it’s all performance whether it is a need to be seen as holler than thou, to try and start a second chapter when your career is going badly, or whether it is a misguided messiah complex it goes nowhere. If Pugh really cared about Gaza she could give her entire check for Doomsday to the people there, she won’t. People like Pugh and Maslany can scream about their causes all they want it won’t change a thing, the fact is with the cultural shift and the turn against being an SJW people like this are simply being added to lists to better avoid.
In ten years when people say what happened to Florence Pugh her stupid activism is what happened. As for Maslany well she was hardly relevant to begin with.
With her recent rants about being an onset enforcer she is showing she is hard to work with and also setting herself as the bastion of standards which is the rumours around Don’t Worry Darling is true would be a mistake.
Pugh’s career is facing an inflection point in her career, her time as Yelena may soon be over and her role in the Dune franchise seems to be at and and with Messiah unless they do Children.
Her activist turn is a cynical ploy for relevance beyond that.
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