Is it cuz I'm the wrong kind of black?

[vetran]

Seriously?

Samuel L. Jackson slams Brits playing African-Americans | Daily Mail Online

Samuel L. Jackson criticizes British actors playing African-Americans in films while citing Get Out as example

Hardly helping the cause

Jackson while airing his grievance also cited British actor David Oyelowo, 40, who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biopic Selma.

'A brother from America could have been in that movie that would have had a different idea about how that works, how King thinks or how King felt,' Jackson said.

Jackson also said that British actors are cheaper 'than us' and are considered better trained than American actors

hmmmm

[northernladyuk]

Seriously?

Samuel L. Jackson slams Brits playing African-Americans | Daily Mail Online



Hardly helping the cause



hmmmm

It helps the Daily Mail to provoke right-wing politically correct outrage against individuals who dare to assert their freedom of speech to discuss matters of race.

[LondonManc]

Cheaper and better.

Hmmm. Can see the problem now.

From Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins through Mel Gibson* in Braveheart to Renee Zelweger in Bridget Jones - they've never had a problem when it's the other way round.


* Australian-American for the pedants out there and Lord knows there's at least three!

[northernladyuk]

Cheaper and better.

Hmmm. Can see the problem now.

From Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins through Mel Gibson* in Braveheart to Renee Zelweger in Bridget Jones - they've never had a problem when it's the other way round.


* Australian-American for the pedants out there and Lord knows there's at least three!

Don't forget Kevin Costner as Robin Hood: We ride for Notting-ham.

[darmstadt]

And more Hollywood typecasting:

Gloriously evil: The Top 10 British villains in Hollywood movie history

Hollywood villains: Why the Brits make the best baddies - Telegraph

[vetran]

It helps the Daily Mail to provoke right-wing politically correct outrage against individuals who dare to assert their freedom of speech to discuss matters of race.

be true

Pity for your argument the beeb etc have covered it

Samuel L Jackson: Don't cast British actors in films about US race relations - BBC Newsbeat

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...american-films

oh look a retraction - ish

Samuel L Jackson clarifies comments about black British actors - BBC News

Jackson has now said his criticism was not of other actors but the Hollywood system in general.
"It was not a slam against them, but it was just a comment about how Hollywood works in an interesting sort of way sometimes," the actor told the Associated Press.

[LondonManc]

be true

Pity for your argument the beeb etc have covered it

Samuel L Jackson: Don't cast British actors in films about US race relations - BBC Newsbeat

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...american-films

oh look a retraction - ish

Samuel L Jackson clarifies comments about black British actors - BBC News

Let's ignore him being a diva over Star Wars and demanding a unique purple lightsabre...

[vetran]

look the americans even use an American Bulldog.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/200...1-reel-history

[northernladyuk]

be true

Pity for your argument the beeb etc have covered it

Samuel L Jackson: Don't cast British actors in films about US race relations - BBC Newsbeat

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...american-films

oh look a retraction - ish

Samuel L Jackson clarifies comments about black British actors - BBC News

The beeb is another right-wing broadcaster.

[LondonManc]

The beeb is another right-wing broadcaster.