Soap Opera actress Patricia Mauceri has been a regular on One Life to Live for over 10 years but a gay storyline, she claims, pushed her out of the show.
Mauceri's character, Carlotta Vega, was supposed to play against stereotype and be an accepting Latina mother to her her gay son. But Mauceri did not accept this turn for her character, saying, "I did not object to being in a gay storyline. I objected to speaking the truth of what that person, how that person would live and breathe and act in that storyline. And this goes against everything I am, my belief system, and what I know the character's belief system is aligned to."
Oh I see, so she only objects to the accepting part, if her character had disowned her son or something of that nature, then it's all good! And since when do Soap Opera actors have such a say in the story lines? I mean, they usually involve long lost evil twins and abundant amnesia is all I'm saying.
Anyone else smell a Carrie Prejean-esque lawsuit?
– Andy
she sugarcoated it but basically she meant i wont accept gays in real life nor in the magical world of soap operas … who would jeopardize their job unless they are truly against it in real life
She has that right. As much as I have the right to not accept her lifestyle. Pretty simple people. Where is it written that we HAVE TO accept the hetero lifestyle? Let her be.
This reminds me of the time I was in “Assassins.” I had the part of John Wilkes Booth, and was torn between the fact that my character was a racist and that racism is wrong by today’s standards. I was deeply moved to do the politically correct thing, so I wrote Sondheim a letter and rebuked his take on Booth’s character as being insensitive to the modern American’s palate. He wrote me back saying that he was just realistically representing the psychological cross-section of the Booth of the time, but I still rewrote my part and the play ended with Lincoln and Booth becoming good friends.