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Are Black and Biracial Actors Held to a Higher Standard That White Ones?

posted 2 years ago by HarveyManFredSin (4877)
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I ask, because it looks like Phase 5's Big Bad villain, Jonathan Majors, is about to be 'cancelled' by Disney etc, and, yet, Josh Brolin, who was arrested for DV in 2004, is okay to play the Big Bad in Phase 2 or 3 (I forget what the various MCU phases are). Isn't this hypocrisy/racial double-standards?

Also, blond, blue-eyed pretty boy, Brad Pitt (who claims to have Native American ancestry, but has NO verifiable ancestry of the sort: https://ethnicelebs.com/brad-pitt) has seen no harm to his career despite allegations of DV/abuse of their children, by Angelina Jolie, whilst Johnny Depp who has BLACK ancestry (https://ethnicelebs.com/johnny-depp), albeit NOT Native American ancestry, saw his career suffer over allegations by Amber Heard (who, let's face it, is a much less credible and respectful figure than strong, intelligent, accomplished, Oscar-winning, UNICEF Ambassador Angelina Jolie). Then again, Heard is a blonde, blue-eyed conventionally pretty Stacey type (just like blond, blue-eyed Brad is a typical Chad type), so, I guess everyone simped for her, whilst demonising 'evil' 'blood-drinking' dark and ethnic Jolie.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7386) 2 years ago

Can't speak to the topic of standards, there just seems to be forgiveness at random in Hollywood, but "dark and ethnic Jolie"? You realize she's a natural blonde, right?

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) 2 years ago

I didn't know that, but if anything, that arguably proves my point. Jolie *chose* to look dark. By contrast, many 'blondes' are in fact bottle blonde. But they're all going for the 'Aryan look' (and I'm making a BIG distinction here between Black and other minority people with *obviously* fake blonde hair, and fair-skinned and non-ethnic white people who *look* like natural blondes, even if they *actually* dye their hair). If anything, that's a plus in Jolie's column. Despite her blonde roots (in the figurative and literal sense), she identifies as a darker type.