Regina King has no issues with British actors portraying American characters
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They hired W.C. to be his dialect coach.
They'd rather pay someone to teach them how to be us than just hire us.
You have to remember acting is to take on the role/persona of a character. I didn't now that Dub C was his voice coach so that is fucked up, especially when you take into account how big the US talent pool potentialy is. Now there could be an agenda too avoid certain stereotypes landing to big a platform that they can then use to manipulate or influence sections of the community once they have gathered a large enough following, all this is easily done now with social media. British actors have been in Hollywood since its conception and actors from around the world aspire to break in to Hollywood.
It’s an American movie...
Those wack ass Nollywood movies will use booty scratchers to portray Americans.
IMO the whole controversy is ridiculous. Foreigners of all stripes have been playing Americans in Hollywood films for over a century.
The real reason it's an issue amongst African American actors is because there's a shortage of roles, especially dignified roles, for Black people to play. Solve this problem and eventually nobody will care where the actor comes from.
The real reason it's an issue amongst African American actors is because there's a shortage of roles, especially dignified roles, for Black people to play. Solve this problem and eventually nobody will care where the actor comes from.
A lesbian who hates lesbians.
Blacks who hate other Blacks.
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No, this is hate speech:
Didn't click but I would have been shocked if she had said anything otherwise.Don't tell ADOS butMalcolm X in her new movie was born and raised and still lives in England and her Muhammad Ali was born and raised and still lives in Canada.
That's part of it. But the other part is casting non-Black American who are removed from Black American history as historical Black figures. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, and Aretha Franklin have all recently been portrayed by foreign Black actors and actresses, many of whom are virtually unknown in the Black American community.
Speaking of non-binary
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They'll cut black other black people's throats in hopes of getting a check from the White man.
She's not ADOS!
Fictional Africans from fictional African countries in fictional roles. You'd be better off citing Denzel Washington as Steve Biko, Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin, or even Jill Scott as that South African detective.
Or, to take it to another level, Louis Gossett Jr playing Anwar Sadat. Egypt didn't like that shit at all.
It's no different than Daniel Day-Lewis playing Abraham Lincoln.
Again, the problem isn't who's getting the roles, the problem is that those roles really aren't there in the first place.
Quite a few. Don Cheadle is the first to come to mind.
To be honest, many of the new younger U.S. actors suck. It's starting to seem like foreign actors can portray regular U.S. black folks better than U.S. born black folks. U.S. born actors tend to change their dialects, accents, and annunciation to sound more Anglo-Saxon.
You're missing the point, as usual. Idris Elba is a Ghanaian-Brit who played a South African Xhosa. There is currently controversy about Lupita playing a Nigerian character in "Americanah."
These issues transcend us.
Look at the bigger picture, y'all squabbling over who gets the crumbs while white folk get the cake. I thought y'all was interested in closing the racial wealth gap.
You're conflating two different issues, neither of which you understand.
Hotel Rwanda is, to this day is a banging ass movie and it’s because Don Cheadle delivered. That’s what makes what Regina King is saying spot on.
The vessel don’t make a difference so long as the understanding of the final result is produced at a high level of quality.
To use food as an example, I go to Jamaican spots that have Hispanics cooking. I go to Pakistani spots that have West Africans cooking. I know a Guyanese woman who runs a Thai spot locally. All banging ass food made by people from another culture and race. You can go anywhere and see a different breed of people making something outside their birth culture and deliver.
It’s not about how you start but how you finish.
It happens in all facets of life, including film.
The vessel don’t make a difference so long as the understanding of the final result is produced at a high level of quality.
To use food as an example, I go to Jamaican spots that have Hispanics cooking. I go to Pakistani spots that have West Africans cooking. I know a Guyanese woman who runs a Thai spot locally. All banging ass food made by people from another culture and race. You can go anywhere and see a different breed of people making something outside their birth culture and deliver.
It’s not about how you start but how you finish.
It happens in all facets of life, including film.
how do you think Africans react to this treachery?
We don’t give a damn.
Those are American movies, made in America, for Americans.
African movies made in Africa, for Africans will have an African cast.
You separate the issues because one of them fits your narrative. The issues are under the same umbrella, which is the person at the top profiting is neither native black american or any other black culture. It's like you are fighting other black folk for a chance to be in the fields picking cotton instead of working to take over the plantation.
On Netflix I've been watching those movies that are made in africa, some of them are pretty good.
COINTELPRO termites happily doing the white man's bidding to keep the Black community from being unified. Divide and conquer. Conquer and divide.
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America contributes barely 25% of box office receipts. This "by America for America" nonsense hasn't been true for a long time. It's a global industry.
America contributes barely 25% of box office receipts. This "by America for America" nonsense hasn't been true for a long time. It's a global industry.
Regina King is done in the ADOS community.
That was a movie created by Americans, in America, using American studios and using characters and stories created by Americans.
Im sure the Black American community gives alot of weight to Regina King's opinion.
She cant make me be entertained seeing bad actors from the UK ruin movies.
And about 95% of the big budget films that gross 9 and 10 figures.
And where is Hollywood?
Maybe you idiots can grasp the concept better if we reduce it to an issue of useless outsourcing instead of cultural misrepresentation.