James Woods is an asshole in a suit
But not by choice.
According to the big, bad and evil Hollywood studio marketing departments, James Woods is the enemy and as such has to be stereotyped mercilessly as - you guessed it - an asshole in a suit:
Woods’ distaste for the studio system that has left him without a great desire to work. Woods, who may have already mentioned that he isn’t a big liberal, has issues with the way most writers are choosing to represent his demographic these days.
“In this politically correct era, the middle-aged heterosexual white guy gets to play one part, he gets to play the asshole in the suit,” Woods grouses. “That’s the only part they make anymore. That’s the only part there is for a white heterosexual guy. Sorry, but it’s the truth. Even when he’s the hero now: Like Tom Cruise in ‘War of the Worlds,’ he’s the hero, right? Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, H.G. Wells, how do you top that? They do a remarkable job of how the make the movie and so on, but he has to be a father who’s a lousy parent, a terrible ex-husband, blah blah blah.”
After the desire for oxygen temporarily kicks in: “You can’t be a heterosexual white guy and be a hero anymore. You’ve gotta be really flawed and really bad and a piece of crap. Otherwise, the marketing department says, ‘You can’t have white guys be decent people. They’re the enemy. They only put a man on the Moon and wrote ‘Hamlet.’ Why should we let them have any cred?’”
Because middle-aged heterosexual white guys need love, too?
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