{"id":48475,"date":"2015-05-02T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48475"},"modified":"2015-05-02T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T03:25:14","slug":"kennelly-sues-soul-surfer-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48475","title":{"rendered":"Kennelly Sues Soul Surfer Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keala-Kennelly-Headshot-.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keala-Kennelly-Headshot-.jpg','popup','width=403,height=403,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keala-Kennelly-Headshot-tm.jpg\" height=\"199\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Keala-Kennelly-Headshot-\" \/><\/a>Surfer <strong>Keala Kennelly<\/strong> is reportedly suing the producers of the <strong>Bethany Hamilton<\/strong> bio pic <strong><em>Soul Surfer<\/em><\/strong> (<strong>Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, Inc.) <\/strong>because they denied her a role in the film based on her being &#8220;a lesbian, but also because they believed she starred in gay porn,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2015\/05\/01\/pro-surfer-claims-anti-gay-bias-by-film-execs.htm\">Courthouse News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In January 2010, Kennelly learned that <strong>Brookwell McNamara<\/strong> had chosen not to give her any role for the biopic, according to the suit. . . . Kennelly claims that as producers mulled over casting, a female producer told director <strong>Sean McNamara<\/strong> she &#8220;had some dirt on&#8221; Kennelly. . . &#8220;&#8216;For one thing, she is gay,'&#8221; Kennelly&#8217;s complaint quotes the producer as saying. &#8220;&#8216;And she does gay porn. It&#8217;s on the Internet.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, so according to Courthouse News &#8220;though openly gay&#8221; Kennelly denies ever making pornographic movies. Kennelly lost her Screen Actors Guild health coverage because she didn&#8217;t get the role in the film. Now she is &#8220;suing for religion discrimination based on sexual orientation and sexual orientation discrimination. She seeks compensatory, special and punitive damages,&#8221; in Hawaii&#8217;s First Circuit Court. She filed the lawsuit on April 29, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2015\/05\/01\/pro-surfer-claims-anti-gay-bias-by-film-execs.htm\">Courthouse News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfer Keala Kennelly is reportedly suing the producers of the Bethany Hamilton bio pic Soul Surfer (Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, Inc.) because they denied her a role in the film based on her being &#8220;a lesbian, but also because they believed she starred in gay porn,&#8221; according to a story on Courthouse News. In January 2010, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48476,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48475\/revisions\/48476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}