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<blockquote data-quote="jmartkdr2" data-source="post: 8471949" data-attributes="member: 7017304">The biggest difference, IMO, is that roleplaying for fun can just as easily be an attempt to learn about the type of character you're playing - if I'm playing a gender-fluid elf, I need to think about what it means to be a genderfluid person and how that would affect how such a person thinks and feels. It becomes an exercise in empathy.Technically, this is true of any actor - their craft starts with empathy - but in the case of acting for an audience, there's a scarcity issue. Whether I choose to play an elf has no impact on anyone else's ability to play an elf or anything else allowed by the game. But Eddie playing, say, Newt, means that no one else gets to play Newt in the official Hollywood movie about Newt. Someone else was denied the opportunity. In that particular case there's no category-of-person denial, which is why his role in the Danish Girl is much more complicated.Sometimes it's important to take time to understand how people become terrible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmartkdr2, post: 8471949, member: 7017304"] The biggest difference, IMO, is that roleplaying for fun can just as easily be an attempt to learn about the type of character you're playing - if I'm playing a gender-fluid elf, I need to think about what it means to be a genderfluid person and how that would affect how such a person thinks and feels. It becomes an exercise in empathy. Technically, this is true of any actor - their craft starts with empathy - but in the case of acting for an audience, there's a scarcity issue. Whether I choose to play an elf has no impact on anyone else's ability to play an elf or anything else allowed by the game. But Eddie playing, say, Newt, means that no one else gets to play Newt in the official Hollywood movie about Newt. Someone else was denied the opportunity. In that particular case there's no category-of-person denial, which is why his role in the Danish Girl is much more complicated. Sometimes it's important to take time to understand how people become terrible. [/QUOTE]

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