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Should Black British Actors Play African-Americans In Films?
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I am sorry but Black actors have had enough problems in the past being accepted,without american black actors squabbling and bitching about UK black actors.
When I first started going to the cinema (1952) and for MANY years after that,you just didn't see black actors at all in films,and if you did it was in small,derogatory and mostly racist parts.
If Samuel L Jackson wants to moan then that's fine,but he should realise that sits on the shoulders of his black forebears,who made the way for him.
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I am not sure they would agree with him.
When I first started going to the cinema (1952) and for MANY years after that,you just didn't see black actors at all in films,and if you did it was in small,derogatory and mostly racist parts.
If Samuel L Jackson wants to moan then that's fine,but he should realise that sits on the shoulders of his black forebears,who made the way for him.
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I am not sure they would agree with him.
One point though - whilst we may think that our actors can do an American accent better than Americans can do ours, we're listening with British ears. Idris Elba did (to my mind) a perfect American accent in The Wire, but it might sound quite 'off' if you're an American, and can hear cadences and inflections we don't notice.
well, quite, sp1814. British viewers can immediately detect flaws in Dick Van Dyke's chimneysweep, because they are all experts on Edwardian cockney accents (or so they think); but there's more than one "American" accent and Brits know very little about them.
I think the actual problem Jackson is talking about may stem from Twelve Years a Slave, a British film: if Hollywood had ever made such a film, American actors might have broken through. But that's Hollywood's failing, not Chiwetel Ejiofor's.
I think the actual problem Jackson is talking about may stem from Twelve Years a Slave, a British film: if Hollywood had ever made such a film, American actors might have broken through. But that's Hollywood's failing, not Chiwetel Ejiofor's.
An actor is an actor is an actor.What about his then?
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Which just goes to show you,it doesn't really matter what colour or gender you are,great acting will cross all divides.
I went (last year) to see David Suchet as Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" After the initial suprise (and it must be said a bit of shock,even though I knew what was coming) I got used to the idea very quickly,and he was excellent.
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Which just goes to show you,it doesn't really matter what colour or gender you are,great acting will cross all divides.
I went (last year) to see David Suchet as Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" After the initial suprise (and it must be said a bit of shock,even though I knew what was coming) I got used to the idea very quickly,and he was excellent.
Just trying to look after his own interests surely.
If the actor or actress is convincing in the part then I don't see a problem (except for self interest).
If someone has to have lived something in order to play the part, there would be an awful lot of roles going begging because the acting profession wasn't good enough to be able to portray the characters.
Perhaps this is a confession of Jackson's lack of faith in his own ability ?
If the actor or actress is convincing in the part then I don't see a problem (except for self interest).
If someone has to have lived something in order to play the part, there would be an awful lot of roles going begging because the acting profession wasn't good enough to be able to portray the characters.
Perhaps this is a confession of Jackson's lack of faith in his own ability ?
Why black? Why not complain about anyone portraying someone of a different nationality/culture/ethnicity? Actually, I thought Hugh Laurie was brilliant in ‘House’, and although time allowed me to watch only a couple of episodes of ‘Billions’, Damian Lewis did pretty well – and who could ever forget Vivien Leigh’s Scarlet O’Hara? Timeless! Black people need to get over themselves. They exacerbate racism.
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/// When I first started going to the cinema (1952) and for MANY years after that,you just didn't see black actors at all in films,and if you did it was in small,derogatory and mostly racist parts. ///
Are you forgetting the great Paul Robson, who's career was unfortunately put to an end, accused of un-American activities, during McCarthyism in the 1950s.
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/// When I first started going to the cinema (1952) and for MANY years after that,you just didn't see black actors at all in films,and if you did it was in small,derogatory and mostly racist parts. ///
Are you forgetting the great Paul Robson, who's career was unfortunately put to an end, accused of un-American activities, during McCarthyism in the 1950s.
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