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Full Home star Jodie Sweetin defended the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony recreation of the Feast of Dionysus in opposition to critics who incorrectly interpreted it as being a parody of “The Final Supper.”
Friday’s opening ceremony featured a sketch that noticed drag queens, a transgender mannequin, a unadorned singer dressed up because the Greek god of wine Dionysus, and a baby collectively at a protracted eating desk.
The scene drew backlash from the Catholic Church and others, together with Sweetin’s former Full Home co-star Candace Cameron Bure who interpreted it as being a “disgusting” and “blasphemous” recreation of Leonardo da Vinci’s well-known “The Final Supper” portray of Jesus Christ and his apostles sharing a remaining meal earlier than his crucifixion.
The Olympics inventive director Thomas Jolly lately defined his intentions had been to have a good time a “grand pagan pageant related to the gods of Olympus.”
“It was fairly clear, [it was] Dionysus who arrives on the desk,” he mentioned in an interview with French outlet BMFTV. “Why is he there? As a result of Dionysus is the Greek god of festivities and wine, and is the daddy of Sequana, the goddess of the Seine river.”
“Inform me you don’t find out about artwork or historical past with out TELLING me you don’t find out about artwork or historical past,” Sweetin wrote in a latest Instagram Story, alongside a reel from comic Walter Masterson mocking the misinterpretation of the sketch.
She additionally shared a graphic from Instagram influencer Matt Bernstein that said: “The drag queens on the Olympics had been recreating the feast of Dionysus, not the Final Supper. And even should you thought it was a Christian reference – what’s the hurt? Why is it a ‘parody’ and never a tribute? Can drag queens not be Christian too?”
Paris 2024 organizers later apologized for the controversial sketch, with spokesperson Anne Descamps telling a press convention: “Clearly there was by no means an intention to point out disrespect to any spiritual group.”
Descamps added that the choice was motivated by a need to attain “group tolerance.” “ the results of the polls that we shared, we imagine that this ambition was achieved,” she mentioned.
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Bure has since edited her Instagram publish to say that “many have tried to appropriate me saying it wasn’t about an interpretation of DaVinci’s The Final Supper, however a Greek god and the pageant of Dionysus.”
“I nonetheless don’t see how that pertains to unifying the world via aggressive sports activities and acceptable for kids to look at,” she argued. “In any case, I’m not shopping for it.”
Sweetin, 42, and Bure, 48, starred collectively within the hit sitcom Full Home, which ran from 1987 to 1995, and its spin-off Fuller Home. The pair have lengthy held opposing political viewpoints, however have remained shut.
“Having Candace and Andrea [Barber] as greatest buddies rising up and type of as older sister figures, it meant so much,” Sweetin mentioned on a 2023 episode of the Behind the Velvet podcast. “I used to be an solely youngster, so it was nice to have these relationships.”
