Roland Emmerich has defended his film Stonewall after it was slated by critics.
Stonewall, about the Stonewall Riots of 1969, came under for fire for the use of Jeremy Irvine’s Danny as the central character over the actual trans women and the depiction of people of colour.
Vanity Fair called it ‘terribly offensive and offensively terrible’, and The Guardian said the gay rights movement was lost beneath a coming-of-age drama, ‘the riots tucked away in the last 20 minutes, delivered almost as an after-thought to Danny’s character development.’
Variety said: ‘Roland Emmerich treats a seminal event in the gay pride movement as the mere backdrop to the otherwise vanilla… Read the full story