Topher Grace’s post-That 70’s Show career has been quite an interesting ride. Sure he copped a bit of flack as as Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider-Man 3, but he’s also been in some interesting indies and some big-budget movies like Interstellar and Predators.
His latest turn as former KKK grand wizard David Duke in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman was something else though. Playing someone as moronic, evil, and scarily charming as Duke certainly isn’t easy, but Grace managed to pull it off in an idiotic yet brilliant way.
However, it appears that someone isn’t too fond of Grace’s acting in BlacKkKlansman and decided to flick the actor a threatening phone call.
According to TMZ, Grace got a phone call from someone who decided to “angrily” and “aggressively” whinge about his take on Duke by calling him a “gay slur” before warning how his role was going to “ruin race relations in America”. Ummm, okay then.
Let’s pick this apart a bit. An actor who recently got a heap of attention for portraying a renowned white supremacist as a moron gets a random phone call from someone who has no qualms slinging out gay slurs and is concerned about how playing an idiotic David Duke could damage America’s race relations more than the current POTUS. Gee, I wonder who it could be?
(It’s totally David Duke.)
Threatening phone call aside, Grace received some of the best reviews of his career for playing Duke in BlacKkKlansman, a job that took such an emotional toll that the actor recut Peter Jackson’s overstuffed Hobbit trilogy into one two-hour movie as a way to relax.
We may never know who the mystery caller is, but Grace must be doing something right for a bigot to get so riled up. And we also learned something new today: who knew that soulless white supremacists could get butthurt too?