Victim, Victimized or Victim Playing?

So recently,a Malaysian actor made headlines for starring in a gay web series. His parents and the government are now taking legal action against the production company. (Read here)

Since I have so many friends who are writers, performers, producers, and legal practitioners, I think this is a very good topic for an open discussion.
Even you are just an avid reader of my unusually long posts, I really would love to hear from you.

Let's just say that someone contacted you, and told you that they wanted you to star in a web series. They tell you what the story is about. You went for audition. You got the part. Given the contract. Read the contract. Agreed to it. Signed the contract. Given the script. Read the script. Attend table read. Went for storyboard runthrough. Shooting starts. Scene one. Take one. Take two. Take three, etc. Scene Two up to the Final Scene. Shooting wraps. You get paid. Show went into post-production. Rough cut completed. Reshoot (perhaps) because of NG scenes. Additional scenes shot for conti. Post production continues. Production completed. Contracted promotion and roadshow concurrently in discussion during post production. Teaser trailer released. Official trailer released.

Question 1: Since you will be paid for your presence in the show, how do you think the production company is going to get back the money invested to complete the shoot?

Question 2: At which part of the above production process do you think you should find out about the content of the show you are acting in?

Question 3: If you are such a bad actor and just read whatever lines given to you. At which point do you think you would have a rough idea on what the show is about?

Question 4: If a gay-themed show is NOT what you signed up for, would you highlight it to the production team and inform them of your intention to drop out? Or go through with it?

Question 5: If you no problem going through it, even after knowing that it is a gay-themed show, would you have a problem on which platform the show will be released?

Question 6: At which point do you think that you are a "victim of circumstances"? Why?

Let's discuss.


~ a very curious person © 09122021:1700 ~

Dear Malaysians...

[Disclaimer: This post has no intention to annoy anyone or bring any form of racial disharmony. If you're easily butthurt and overly sensitive, stop reading and leave this post immediately. The author shall not, and will not be responsible and/or liable for your hurt butt and over-sensitivity. Read at your own risk.]

Dear Malaysians, where are all the supporters and boycotters of the Israeli-Palestinian war? Why are they not speaking up and criticizing the Taliban for killings of innocent Afghans?

Dear Malaysians, why are we not boycotting China for their prosecution of Uighur Muslims and sending them to detention camps to be sterilized, raped and tortured?

Dear Malaysians, where are all our religious-centric ministers who are afraid of the signs of a cross but keeps mum when the Chinese Communist Party forcibly demolished mosques and resting place of the muslim community, just to build public toilets on them?

Dear Malaysians, where are the religious and racial-extremist who claimed that a country led by Malays will be better? Why aren't they making noise and stage protests when their Malay ministers failed the country so badly?

It is always easy to discriminate.

And let's admit it, although we live in this beautiful multiracial country, we're all a little bit racist.

But at the end of the day, we have been living in this country long enough to know and respect each other's religions and beliefs.

We all know better not to serve our Muslim friends pork, like how we all know not to serve our Hindu friends beef... (Well, the Chinese practically eats everything, so let's not focus too much on them.)

Now let me ask you this: Why are all our fast food chains serving beef at all their outlets but not pork? Are we not "sensitive" enough to care about our Hindu friends' religious beliefs? To be politically correct, all fast food chain should only serves chicken and mutton, no?

Dear Malaysians, it's time for us to wake up and see what the kleptocratic power hungry politicians are doing to the country. They do not care about our welfare. They do not care about our well-being. They do not care about our livelihood. And they certainly do not care whether we are dead or alive!

It has always been in their political agenda to create a huge racial divide in this beautiful multiracial country we live in, so that the Chinese will always only vote for the Chinese, the Malay will always vote for the Malays, and the Indians will always vote for the Indians; pitting one race against another so that the divide grows bigger. This is how they "divide and conquer".

Unless all of us come together and accept each other's differences, there is not way this beautiful multi-racial country is going to thrive.

We are lucky to be in a country with fuck loads of natural resources, land that is good for various agriculture, safe and away from deadly typhoons, earthquakes, tornados and all forms of natural disasters. But let me ask you this: Why isn't our country on top of the export list and why are we not the richest country in the Southeast Asia? Instead, small countries like Brunei and Singapore, that are many MANY times smaller than our country, and have lesser resources than us can be so far ahead and have currencies 3 times higher than ours!

Dear Malaysians, it's time for us to look at capabilities and qualifications instead of kulitfication. If we continue to be divided by all those kleptocratic power hungry politicians, this country will never prosper!

Dear Malaysians, we live in a democratic country. We have the choice of choosing the government we wanted! If a Malay Prime Minister don't work, then let's shift our focus to have a capable Indian Prime Minister. If that Indian Prime Minister is still as useless, let's go for Chinese Prime Minister! If the person still can't do the job, let's move on to East Malaysia and start over! If that still doesn't work, we should have an Orang Asli Prime Minister! They are, after all, the rightful "bumiputeras" of this land. What's the worse that could happen? How will we know where the country will be heading to if we don't give it a try?



~ a very disappointed Malaysian © 21082021:1210 ~