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Is Zoe only with white guys in movies?


I love Zoe and enjoy seeing her in movies. I'm only asking the following because I'm curious.

In every film that I've seen her in, she's always with a white guy. These include:

Star Trek: Zachary Quinto
Guess Who: Ashton Kutcher
Avatar: Sam Worthington
Guardians of the Galaxy: Chris Pratt
Death at Funeral: James Marsden

I haven't seen all her films. Is she in any movies where she's with someone besides a white guy?

Thanks.




Star Wars: Episode VII - The New Holiday Special

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To answer, I don't think so. She is probably more of a white man's type anyhow so maybe that's why.

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Yes. She's hollywoods favourite black actress. Hollywood thinks a black male and female lead= black movie. shes has a preference for white men and maybe doesn't care that most of her on screen bf/ husbands are white.

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@C Dubya



In both the films DRUMLINE and PREMIUM, she has black male lead co-stars, but that's probably because these films were made by black directors, producers and writers,too. And what the hell makes her a "white man's type", anyway?

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maybe you just watched and remember the movies where she's paired with white guys only?

movies where her love interest is a man of color:
Takers, The Heart Specialist, Blackout, Premium, Out of the furnace (where yes, her love interest is Christian Bale but she ended up with Forest Whitaker's character) Drumline
In the Nina Simone's biobic her love interest is black also.
She also was cast to play Don Cheadle’s love interest in his current work in progress movie about Miles Davis (she was cast to play his first wife) she had accepted that part years ago but had to give it up because she was pregnant last year (couldn't play a dancer with the baby bump and all)

either way, how many mainstream movies we currently have with a black male character as the lead and the one with a romance? Just answer to that question and you understand why it seems that most of her onscreen love interests are white: because the main male character in most of the mainstream movies are white.
That said, interracial couples are still rare in hollywood. There are actors like Will Smith who rarely get to play the love interest of a white girl because hollywood is stuck in that poc must only be paired with other poc mentality.
In light of that alone, the fact that Zoe gets to play the love interest of white characters too - and they don't give those roles to a white actress by default - in mainstream movies is important in perspective.

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#itnevarrains

Actually, Will Smith (for the first time ever) is the love interest of a white woman (Margor Robbie,from THE WOLF ON WALL STREET) in the recent hit film FOCUS,which is one of the best films he's made in a long while---worth seeing,too.

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Thin body, non-ghetto speech/mannerisms, medium/long straight or slightly wavy (not kinky) hair, and facial features are not very large (moderate sized nose and lips).

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