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You can watch her in the role, I'm not interested.
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I thought colorism played a role in people's issues with this film's production.
Someone on the front page said the chick from Chi-Raq should've gotten this role, and I agree.
It's definitely typical Hollywood colorism at play - lighter-skinned black people are afforded more opportunities than our darker counterparts and I'm light-skinned myself. Once again, they hired a lighter-skinned black actress (Afro-Latina in this instance) with features that are generally deemed acceptable by our society then darkened her skin and gave her a fake nose to look more African-American than what she herself looks like.
It begs the question - why didn't they just hire a darker-skinned actress with similar features in the first place? It's not like there's a shortage of them out there wanting opportunities like this.
What a petty thing to get angry over. She's a black actress playing a black woman. I can't believe THAT gets people riled up now. I fear for the future.
What a petty thing to get angry over. She's a black actress playing a black woman. I can't believe THAT gets people riled up now. I fear for the future.
Saldana is way too pretty to play Nina Simone.
A lot of people, including herself, don't consider her black.
Do i agree with that? No. But dark skinned Domincans say they're not black. ANd Saldana herself has said, im pretty sure multiple times, that she's not black. So why would an actress who says she's not black take a role as a black person
Do I really care? No. I only wanna see this to watch Mike Epps as Pryor before that movie, hopefully, comes out
What a petty thing to get angry over. She's a black actress playing a black woman. I can't believe THAT gets people riled up now. I fear for the future.
Agreed.
This is not even a thing to get angry about.
Johnny Depp played this guy:
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Agreed.
This is not even a thing to get angry about.
Johnny Depp played this guy:
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It may not be an issue for you, but tell that to the dark-skinned women in Hollywood who actually look like Nina Simone without prosthetics or having their skin darkened who keep getting consistently passed up for roles like this compared to their lighter skinned counterparts of lesser talent.
Or just tell that to dark-skinned African-American women period. It just reinforces what society has already been telling them for years - they aren't attractive or appealing enough to be worthy of the same opportunities.
That doesn't even compare to this.
She really said that? I heard the exact opposite; about how proud she is to be black.
Maybe it's a political thing. Say that which will benefit you at that time.
.@zoesaldana Cool story but please take Nina's name out your mouth. For the rest of your life.