Piers Morgan slams plans for Sophie Turner to play Boy George in upcoming biopic and asks ‘how will she have sex like him?
PIERS Morgan has slammed the idea of Sophie Turner playing Boy George in a biopic about his life and asked “how will she have sex like him?”
Boy George named the Game of Thrones actress as one of the candidates to play him – but admitted it would likely upset people because “she’s a woman”.
Piers ranted after Boy George revealed Sophie is in the running for the role.
He said: “How is she going to have sex? Does wonder woman get played by a man? No.
“When someone is a famous man like Boy George how can it be a women playing? Create your own damn character.
“Don’t take our characters, don’t take our pop stars, leave us alone.
“It’s a very insidious thing that every male character, a woman wants to play, it’s creepy.”
Piers then made it clear that “when there is a biography about my life, I want to be played by a man.”
Speaking about the movie to Australian radio station Nova 96.9 yesterday, George said that the Game of Thrones star was “one of the more interesting suggestions” .
He added: “It’s really strange, but that’s been a suggestion [I think] that will upset people, which I quite like.
“(People will say): ‘Oh she can’t play you, she’s a woman!’
“But you know, when I was 17 I would have loved to have been her… that was the ambition!”