Sean Hayes to play cisgender woman in film "Lazy Susan"

Oh, dear. His face work has done him no favors.

He should have hired Deb.

“woman on the edge with nowhere to go but over, Lazy Susan”

That describes Susan Sarandon’s Thelma and Louise role.

Will there be beaver?

Matthew Broderick and Allison Janey are in it? Weird

Why? Nice discrimination against women.. as usual.

It’s like it’s all some kind of weird joke.

He actually looks better as a woman.

Uproar from the Trans 'community' in 5... 4... 3... 2... x

Should’ve stopped at co-writer. His old rough fug face doesn’t do him any favors.

Obama recently said about white men: “ “not getting out of the way”

He looks good in a wig

Tone deaf

Bad for the gays

May end Sean’s career

Oh no (s)he di-int...

Why are they using a dummy poster with lots of Latin gobbledygook?

R8, his character isn't supposed to be trans

More outrage from the anti-trans Republicans

R14, indeed, as a trans advocate you probably find a "cis" man playing a real woman perfectly fine, but a "cis" man (i.e. a male) playing a transwoman (i.e. a male) is probably an outrage to you.

R2 that wig really looks like Deb’s real hair. What is he trying to say with that?

The trailer actually makes this look pretty funny. I love Jim Rash.

R14 No shit. Did I say he was? x

Was every middle-aged actress in America busy? I know they're booked solid.

He looks like Alison Janney there.

Allison Janney is in it as well! Plus Character Actress Margo Martindale. It's a who's who of who's that!

Please stop using “cis”. The standard is “woman”. The deviation is “trans”. Women don’t need an adjective to make them real. Nor do men.

Thank you.

R22 is so triggered!

Girl, dat Flo from Progressive.

Hayes in drag is giving me Candy Clark.

yuck

the trannies are gonna come for his neck

Republicans like r26 will be coming for trans people

I don’t get it where did tv get such a strong voice in society recently? It’s our stupid teachers in the public schools and in the colleges tranny represent a very very small fraction of society so why is everybody talking about trannys so much lately?

R28 calls other people stupid but can't speak proper English.

Betcha Hayes announces zher transition in 5.....4.....3......

Betcha r30 starts masturbating to pictures of Trump in 5....4...3....

R31 Stay pressed, hunty!

So how will we watch this if the quarantine shit is still going on?

He kind of looks like Rita Wilson.

R33 The article says it'll be on VOD starting April 3rd.

Rolls eyes at R19. Ok, Susan Sarandon, calm down.

Why would there be outrage? Was there outrage for Madea, Shanaynay on Martin, Big Momma’s House, The Nutty Professor, Anderson Louise’s show, Lena Dunham, Peter Pan, Mrs. Doubtfire, White Chicks, Bosom Buddies?

Fuck the trannies, R26. This looks like fun.

It's kind of sad that this counts as controversial these days. And it's basically just Hayes making fun of fraus and their Oprah empowered entitlement.

[quote]Sean Hayes to play cisgender woman

Sean Hayes to play a woman.

There, as always, fixed it for you.

Fuck the word cisgender. Fuck it to hell. And fuck trannies who are destroying women’s sports. War on Women.

Fuck ‘em, R26.

What R15 said, except a million times and in really, REALLY big letters.

Watched this last night. Script and idea had some potential and it could have been fun with the right actress. It is glacially slow and the fact that Susan is being played by a man is just weird and distracts from the character which as I said could he interesting with the right actress.

Hope this isn’t a trend as actresses have it hard enough as is. Anyone who thinks this is no big deal needs to wake up and ask themselves if men would accept a woman playing James Bond. Women are too nice imo trying to play fair and not hurt anyone’s feelings when nobody ever looks out for their interests.

Mathew Broderick is now an elder lesbian. He cannot carry off the weight gain. Yikes.

I guess Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy passed...?

This was to come out just as the theaters all closed. Maybe they'll re-release it after it's all over/

It’s like... Tootsie?

Times have changed. Damn near every 25 and under white male wears nail polish, at least sometimes. A man in a dress doesn't have the amusement factor it once did. I'm sure it's still done on slapstick type shows but this movie looks like it needed a "Muriel." Molly Shannon, maybe?

R44 you do make some good points. I still plan on checking it out.

Sounds good.

That Datalounge’s resident Susans are whining about it means it must be good.

"He look-a-like a man."

That trailer should be all the warning anyone needs. They migjt as well have included a crawl at the bottom that read "Caution: Terrible."

I don’t think it’s that big of a deal that Hayes is playing a cis woman. I’ve never heard of an actress getting an flack for playing a cis male character.

It’s only the trans community insisting that all trans roles are played by trans actors (which is stupid).

[quote]Why would there be outrage? Was there outrage for Madea, Shanaynay on Martin, Big Momma’s House, The Nutty Professor, Anderson Louise’s show, Lena Dunham, Peter Pan, Mrs. Doubtfire, White Chicks, Bosom Buddies?

Muriel has tagged R37 as a troll but he's totally right about this. It's obvious Hayes' character is to be viewed the same way as Medea and such, a man playing a woman for laughs. This is not Laverne Cox or Jamie Clayton playing a woman's part, it's an out gay man doing it.

R44, I haven't seen the film but obviously Hayes playing a woman is the main gag of the film, even if he's not overdoing it like Tyler Perry and such. The role is not meant to be played by a woman and it's idiotic to claim he took the role from an actress. You make it sound like women will start losing female roles to men which is just braindead, and you know it perfectly well yourself. There have been plenty of films and tv shows about middle-aged women and there will continue to be. One film with a gay man playing the lead female role will not destroy the future prospects of female actresses but you're certainly trying to make it sound like it is.

Reviews were horrific. Ain’t coming to theaters ever

I thought it was cute. There were no huge laughs but everyone was committed to the material. I wish it had a sharper script but it was not a miserable 90 minutes since I like the cast so much. That said, I don't see myself rewatching it anytime soon.

11 percent on Rotten Tomatoes

That’s a hilarious mindfuck OP! I’d watch this 😂

He's an actor and a creative artist and in this film he and the rest of his collaborators are being creative and dramatizing a writer's work. All of that is great. 100% great.

All the whinging armchair psychologists and self-proclaimed advocates for social justice should simply thank the company of "Lazy Susan" for their work. After that, they should turn their attention to something they actually understand, if anything.

We understand a flop...

For those complaining about a man playing a woman: FUCK YOU.

Will is played by a straight man. That role was taken away from a gay man. There are many more roles for women than for gay men.

Actors can play roles that are not their gender or sexuality. Get over it. The complaining of “minority” groups, including women, is so over the top these days, it becoming unbearable.

Looks like all the outrage is from ciswomen.

You know who rule this website these days.

[Quote] Will is played by a straight man. That role was taken away from a gay man. There are many more roles for women than for gay men.

This made me laugh. You bring up a straight man and then you proceed to not hold the straight man accountable while happily pitting women and gay men against each other.

Yeah R63. I brought that up because we all watch will and grace AND DONT COMPLAIN ABOUT IT!!!

I’m not pitting anyone against anyone else. I’m just over the complaining coming from losers who aren’t good enough open their own doors.

[quote] good enough open their own doors

Writing is very difficult

[Quote] we all watch will and grace

Speak for yourself.

[Quote] I’m just over the complaining coming from losers who aren’t good enough open their own doors.

I don't how that even applies in this instance. There's no shortage of funny women with enough name value to play the role Hayes has taken in this movie.

Ugh that’s a terrible comparison. As it is there are very few female parts. At one point only 22% of all roles went to women. I think it’s closer to 30 now. Sean produced this so and frankly no nobody in Hollywod cares about a gay guy playing a woman in a passion project but I can assure you of a woman tried to play a man it would not fly. As a screenwriter the suits are such assholes that if you make a desk clerk or a judge female they will challenge you and often just cast a male anyway. But as someone else said it’s ridiculous to put gay male actors and females actors against one another. It only serves to keep the current structure going. Any asshole who doesn’t want to make the minor characters female will also have a problem with an out gay man. The reason some actors still try to remain in the closest is because if they are talented they have 70% of all roles available to them. Male writers are also deeply closeted. Those stats are pretty shameful too as writing is surprisingly a conservative enough profession. Lots of white douches in Range Rovers stand between you and a job. In TV they don’t want a gay man or a woman on the room. In movies if you have an online presence as an out gay man they pigeonhole you and read your script with preconceived ideas unless it’s a “gay interest” or a “chick flick” in which case you’ll get good notes but it probably won’t be made. But if a gay man and a woman go together to pitch a show guess who they show more respect to, the gay guy. It’s embarrassing to be in that position but even in 2019 when your female partner misses a meeting they make shitty jokes about female problems and her being likely to flake out when she meets a rich man. (Her flight was cancelled FYI). And the job went to the son of a producer who had only previously written the same schlock that very second straight guy of that age writes- American Pie Part 555 with no gay characters and females appearing as sex objects with 2 lines.

Wait... R61 So you think gay men can only play gay characters or that gay characters must be played by gay men but gay men can also play straight men? To say there’s more roles for women than gay actors suggests you do think gay actors should only play gay characters which is offensive. If you think gay characters should only be played by gay actors but that gay actors should also get a fair chance at the sitcom dad and action hero roles then you’re a giant hypocrite and not as smart as you think so FUCK YOU.

I’m in Austria and part of am amateur group. It’s mostly gays and gals. Our problem is finding material with enough female roles. It’s shocking how many plays have mostly male parts. Finding a part for a gay man is no issue unless he is a poor actor who is very flamboyant.

[Quote] I’m in Austria and part of am amateur group

Say no more, Corky.

[Quote] So you think gay men can only play gay characters or that gay characters must be played by gay men but gay men can also play straight men? To say there’s more roles for women than gay actors suggests you do think gay actors should only play gay characters which is offensive. If you think gay characters should only be played by gay actors but that gay actors should also get a fair chance at the sitcom dad and action hero roles then you’re a giant hypocrite and not as smart as you think so FUCK YOU.

You ask questions but rather than wait for answers, you type "Fuck You" (in caps no less)? What a maroon.

He is not a pretty woman.

In fairness R61 also were fuck you in all caps. When you do that you kind of rule out any polite discussion.

*wrote

I rented this last night on Amazon for $6.99! How can I get a refund? The plot was cartoonish and Sean looked like a gay man in drag. What was the point in him playing this part as a FUGLY woman who looks more like a transvestite in heat. Plus, all the men in the hood were flirtss, why, to get in Sean's cooch?

This included a neighbor who would do her laundry and leave it folded at the door. WHAT?? Very very poor plot, with no twist, and the redemption was hard to believe at the end. Just plain wrong from start to finish.

Margot M and the rest of the cast were good, but Sean as a woman, what was the point??? Ego, perhaps, really?

I expect they'd have needed a bigger budget to make Sean look like a pretty woman.

Why not give a deserving actress a big break by casting her??? Sean must be an egotistical monster. The result was a laughable movie that nobody will ever care about.

Sean has done very well for himself and with his production company he probably doesn't even need to act anymore, but it's cool to see him still getting acting work and taking risks. I give him credit for being willing to put himself out there and try anything. He does have talent so I think he needs to keep workin it till he can't work it no more.

Sean's portrayal of Lazy Susan was a wasted role in a movie, a newbie actress who deserved a break would have been much better. She could have promoted it with gusto! The egos in Hollywood didn't allow it. Sad.

Apparently Chrissie Metz was in the running. Or the walking. Or the... she sent an email.

Sean sank the film, he was a total joke as a woman. If I had a vagina I would be screeching!

Hey, No. I thought that cis people couldn't play trans - they got all over ScarJo. I say NO, no man can play a woman.

Honor Blackman could play a woman. SHE could fill a bra.

Molly Shannon would have been an excellent Lazy Susan, NOT SEAN HAYES, sorry.

Matt Bomer in drag would have been so much better, but why the drag to begin with??? Makes NO sense at all. It was a role for a cis woman.

Film was awfullllllllllll

#TeamMegan

R78 Hi Sean

[Quote] Sean has done very well for himself and with his production company

Therein lies the problem. If he were still an LA gay trying to make it, he'd have done this project at Casita del Campo (sp?) and nowhere else.

I agree with r86. It was like five episodes of a TV show not renewed for a 2nd season.

The writing was high school. Sean's Hollywood Vagina Kiss.

it had so much potential, the supporting cast was all very good, especially the cute niece.

Literal rape.

I am being erased.

You muh-soggy f*gs.

Remember all of the outrage when ScarJo was gonna plan a "trans" person?

Yeah, but people care about ScarJo's projects (for some reason).

But why?

This is a fun idea. More men should play women -- as actually happened for thousands of years in theater.

Was this film any good?

That bothers me.

[quote]I say NO, no man can play a woman.

Excuse me?

R97. No. It's not funny at all, and incredibly boring.

It has 45% at Rotten Tomatoes.

This trailer is funnier than the film.

Just watched this on Pluto TV—not funny, just depressing. Think [italic]Muriel's Wedding [/italic] meets [italic]Tammy.[/italic]

Apparently I missed this thread first time around. This is the first I EVER heard a word about this film. No controversy, no advertising, no nothing.

Box Office Mojo doesn't even list it.

Lazy Susan, I wanted Lady Susan! 🤡

It’s not like there was quality material to work with.

And he should name the character Susan Seaforth Hayes.

[quote]Sean Hayes to play cisgender woman in film "Lazy Susan."

Sean Hayes to play a woman in film "Lazy Susan."

FIFY!

[quote]Hayes in drag is giving me Candy Clark.

Hayes in drag is giving me Candy Finnigan.

It's all so confusing, make it stop