I was booting up Shameless last night and the preview for Uglies hit me upon opening the Netflix app. My husband went “oh, it’s your favorite actor!” And I laughed out loud when I saw it was Cocks, and the role he was apparently playing. Literally telling a roomful of eager teens how awesome it is to change everything about yourself via plastic surgery, as he so obviously has. 😂

It’s casting on the same level as Tigress in A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Hunter Schafer.) While somewhat more sympathetic, Tigress also eventually looks WEIRD and ruined by all her surgeries. These are sort of ideal roles for people who, um, look weird and ruined by all their surgeries.

Laverne Cox will star in literally any role offered to him. He just wants to be relevant

Sounds perfect for him.

This is almost as good as watching Angelica Ross on American Horror Story. First he played an unethical, predatory psychologist experimenting on vulnerable humans. Then his role was a chemist pushing a drug that turns people into violent, bloodthirsty creatures with no higher intellect (also stole a baby). Last role was a human/alien hybrid forcibly impregnating people then stealing their children.

Cox and Ross are both insufferable, but whoever is casting them in these roles looks awfully terfy to me.

I never thought I’d find myself almost gleeful at a post about Laverne Cox being in a movie and yet, here we are.

.....BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. these freaks are never happy. like what? your boy is a star! aren't you so happy transwomen have representation now? even tho you claim to be women no different than cis but someone cis women can't represent you in film so you need to a) make female characters trans or b) need to cast men in dresses in even the "cis" women roles, even tho WE can't play YOU in movies (See Scarlet Johanson).

so now transwomen are playing transwomen and they're mad bc they put him in a role that he can obviously relate to? I'm confused on why this thing is upset tbh.

LOL This is actually perfect! Laverne Cocks finally found a film in which he's perfectly cast! 🤣

And the part about the cosmetic surgery on minors fucking up their brain to make them easier to control is such a good allegory for the trans movement that i cannot believe nobody caught on to it before they filmed it.

Without knowing anything about this story beyond what is summarized by the OP, I can infer that the moral of the story is that self-acceptance is the path to true beauty.

This lesson is one of the most common themes in folklore. It is wisdom that has been passed down so many generations it should be instinctual to us now. And yet it’s not, amazingly enough. A generation of young people have somehow concluded the real heroes are the ones who makes their happiness contingent on how others perceive them.

I want to watch this as well.

I will say what I always say when Mr. Cox is mentioned — how is he still getting work? No studio or directors would keep giving an actual woman who seems to tank in every subsequent role all these chances.

My kids read this series years ago and they were all right, but even if there is now a competing subtext, it’s unlikely to be seized upon by trans sympathizers or most normies. I wonder how many people will watch it.

It’s Netflix? We’ll never know.

I didn't think anything could make me want to see a movie with Laverne Cox in it, but here we are! Pumped now. Thanks for the unintentionally glowing recommendation, NorCal-Frances: Woman (she/her)!

...Cox apparently doesn't seem to recognize that the story as presented can be seen as an anti-trans allegory

Dude, Cox just wants to get paid. If it takes navigating a bit of cognitive dissonance or convenient ignorance to get the meager work Hollywood has to throw his way, he will. Why do you think Cox is less of the 'screw you I got mine' variety than any other man?

If there was intentional casting on behalf of the creators, I applaud them for it because this sounds spot on. And a double congrats for pulling one over on the Netflix woke mob.

Couldn't stand him in orange is the new black.

This is literally a Twilight Zone episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_12_Looks_Just_Like_You

The culture industry doesn't produce anything new anymore. They just do things like add a trans character.

Wow I had no idea they finally made it into a movie! I loved those books when I was around 13, should do a re-read.. we don’t have Netflix so probably won’t watch it soon, but that role sounds perfect for Laverne Cox, good for him

Oh wow! I might watch this haha

I tend to avoid cox’s acting as I don’t think it’s great, but sometimes he shows up in things worth watching

This is hilarious! I might see if I can get the books from the library.

Here's a link to the interview the posts mentions.