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.
yeah but you get the point tho.. its easy to say that when you're not the one getting picked over...also you gonna tell me you can't find in america a young black male actor to play the role of south-central LA gangbanger?
Lena Waithe said she wanted to break* a talent to play the role of Queen in Queen and Slim and they were supposed to be two generic black Americans...and in the entirety of young black American male and female actors the only people to qualify came from another country?? OR are they enamored with British actors because of the British "ACTOUR" background plus being able to affect a passable American accent gives them this prestigious perception that a Black American actor from say Detriot just can't have?
*break a talent - to get an unknown actor.
Just asking but nobody cared that they used African Americans to portray Africans in Black Panther. Forrest Whittaker’s African accent fucks up every scene he in. It would have been better for them not to have accents at all.
A lesbian who hates lesbians.
Blacks who hate other Blacks.
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Wow. You’re so stupid it physically hurts. You and Megacoon.
Why did black Americans run from the South and now running back to South again.
You muthafuckas get gentrified so often, it should be an official holiday this point.
....so its cool cause she needed some cheaper talent for her movie?
I'm sure she wouldn't have been as cool wit it if she had to compete with them for roles when she was on her grind in the 90's.
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.
Gotdamn lineage traitor!!! Somebody check if she’s Jamaican...
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.
Speaking of non-binary
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how many black american actors are playing british characters? How would black brit actors like idris elba and john boyega feel if black american actors took role for characters that were british street dudes and average black british citizens dealing with racism and social dynamics in england??
sam jackson was also very critical of RAPPERS getting roles that he felt trained black ACTORS should have gotten as well. Sam is for black american ACTORS in that argument and anyone who isn't an black american ACTOR shouldn't be getting jobs over those who actually trained for that.
how many black american actors are playing british characters? How would black brit actors like idris elba and john boyega feel if black american actors took role for characters that were british street dudes and average black british citizens dealing with racism and social dynamics in england??
She's not ADOS!
how do you think Africans react to this treachery?
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.
Quite a few. Don Cheadle is the first to come to mind.how many black american actors are playing british characters? How would black brit actors like idris elba and john boyega feel if black american actors took role for characters that were british street dudes and average black british citizens dealing with racism and social dynamics in england??
Chadwick Boseman played about 3 african characters.
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.
how do you think Africans react to this treachery?
You're conflating two different issues, neither of which you understand.
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.
COINTELPRO termites happily doing the white man's bidding to keep the Black community from being unified. Divide and conquer. Conquer and divide.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.
That was a movie created by Americans, in America, using American studios and using characters and stories created by Americans.Just asking but nobody cared that they used African Americans to portray Africans in Black Panther. Forrest Whittaker’s African accent fucks up every scene he in. It would have been better for them not to have accents at all.
Regina King is done in the ADOS community.
I'm sure she'll be sad about not being welcome on your twitter page.
And about 95% of the big budget films that gross 9 and 10 figures.https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/8547827/2019-global-box-office-revenue-hit-record-425b-despite-4-percent-dip-in-us
America contributes barely 25% of box office receipts.
And where is Hollywood?Virtually every African themed storyline told by Hollywood has used American actors.