March 26, 2015 | Arts / Entertainment

Will Ferrell not sorry for gay jokes in his new movie

Get Hard movie posterThis coming weekend, Will Ferrell's latest low-brow comedy opens in theaters. Get Hard is about a hedge fund manager, played by Ferrell, who asks an acquaintance, played by Kevin Hart, to get him ready for a stint in a maximum security prison.
 
Catching people's attention is the endless parade of prison rape jokes. Variety criticized the jokes as "some of the ugliest gay-panic humor to befoul a studio release in recent memory."
 
"Any time you're going to do an R-rated comedy, you're going to offend someone," Ferrell said. "But that's kind of what we do. We provoke. We prod. We also show a mirror to what's already existing out there. We're playing fictitious characters who are articulating some of the attitudes and misconceptions that already exist."
 
Adam McKay, who produced Get Hard, found the criticisms "disheartening."
 
"Any individual going to maximum security prison would be afraid of violence and sexual assault," he argued. "To equate that with homosexuality is ridiculous."

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