Colman Domingo has hit again at trolls taking situation along with his drag efficiency in Sabrina Carpenter’s Tears music video.
Colman Domingo hit again on the backlash to his drag look in Tears
Impressed by The Rocky Horror Image Present, the Bardia Zeinali-directed promo sees Carpenter stumble right into a surrealiest mansion after a automotive crash, the place she’s greeted by Domingo in full Dr. Frank-N-Furter-inspired drag, with the 55-year-old Euphoria actor donning cherry-red lingerie, a towering wig and full drag make-up.
Whereas followers praised the video’s theatrical aptitude and queer celebration, one critic on X took purpose at Domingo’s drag look, calling it “bull****” and questioning why such a “manly” homosexual actor could be solid in drag. Domingo didn’t hesitate to clap again, responding: “It’s a personality. Like all of the characters I play. Settle down brother.
“Benefit from the video and the enjoyable that it possesses. Dance it out! It ain’t that deep.”
He then quoted drag icon RuPaul: “We’re born bare and all the pieces else is drag. Fits, t-shirts, clothes. All drag.”
As for Carpenter, she referred to as the shoot for the monitor from her newest album Man’s Finest Good friend “a wild fantasy dream come true.”
Domingo’s look in Tears comes amid a profession excessive, following back-to-back Oscar nominations for Rustin and Sing Sing.
Carpenter’s album rollout has been met with a backlash, prompting her to warn any “pearl-clutchers” to keep away from listening to the songs.
The album’s cowl of her kneeling on all fours along with her hair being dragged by a person was additionally met with outrage, with the charity Glasgow Girls’s Help accusing her of utilizing “drained tropes that cut back ladies to pets”.
They wrote: “Oh Sabrina!
“Sabrina Carpenter’s new album cowl isn’t edgy, it’s regressive.
“Picturing herself on all fours, with a person pulling her hair and calling it ‘Man’s Finest Good friend’ isn’t subversion. It’s a throwback to drained tropes that cut back ladies to pets, props, and possessions and promote a component of violence and management.”
Carpenter subsequently launched another cowl of her holding onto a person, which she quipped was “accepted by God”, and responded to the criticism.
Just lately, she informed CBS Mornings host Gayle King: “Y’all must get out extra, I believe.
“Between me and my pals and my household and the those who I at all times share my music and my artwork with first, it simply wasn’t even a dialog… It was simply, like, it’s good for what the album is, and what it represents.”
