The controversial image of Billy Porter as the fairy godmother from "Cinderella"

The adaptations of children’s stories in live action stories that Hollywood prepares always give a lot to talk about among fans. Above all, for the memory and affection that they have for the original films that Disney popularized so many years ago. However, contrary to the general idea that these stories belong to The House of the Mouse, this new Cinderella is a Sony adaptation that will see its premiere exclusively for Amazon Prime, recently surprising everyone with the image of Billy Porter as the fairy godmother character.The modernization of the story came through an original idea by actor and host James Corden, who wanted to transform the story of the princess with the glass shoe into a musical. But this change is not the only one, since Camila Cabello, an actress of Cuban origin, has given life to the princess who both in the 1950 adaptation and in the 2015 film of flesh and blood was represented through a blonde character and whitish complexion. The media and controversial uproar does not come from the singer, but from the image of Billy Porter as the fairy godmother. Billy Porter is the new fairy godmother (Photo from Entertainment Weekly) Billy Porter is a Broadway singer and actor who rose to mainstream fame thanks to his role in the series Pose, for which he was nominated at the Golden Globes on passed 2020 and won an Emmy in 2019. Now he plays the fairy godmother of the story in which, although he appears little in the film, according to its director Kay Cannon he will be “our favorite character” with a really special musical number.The change of gender and race of the character of the Fairy godmother that has finally been seen thanks to the exclusive of Entertainment Weekly, has generated the already usual discrepancies in social networks. Some support this change, while others see it as an unnecessary “modernity” that goes against the original story. A story in which Cinderella is the Alpha Before the criticism that Billy Porter may receive, the director in turn wanted to reaffirm her decision that it was the actor who played the magical character. Cannon devised the character simply to “turn him into Billy Porter” and after his performance has been seen as “articulating the idea that magic has no gender.” Finally in the interview, Cannon has conveyed the main difference of this adaptation with what that we had seen so far on the big screen: “What changes is Cinderella’s relationship and dynamics with the prince. In this Cinderella is the alpha of the story and the prince the beta. The characters change, evolve and learn something from her ”.