Why is a cuban playing a white person
Don't make no sense
shareIt's all PC. Apparently white-washing is bad but it's okay for other cultures to portray white people.
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Many Cubans are of European descent, due to immigration. She might be of Spanish descent.
shareBasically, Ana was the only good part of the movie.😴
shareAn actor’s job is to act, to play make-believe. I don’t care who plays who, as long as they’re good in the role, and fit the part.
shareFor the same reason a tan-skinned red-head with a long sharp nose and sharp chin and small breasts (Norma Jean Baker) played an ultra white-skinned ultra blonde bombshell with squared nose and squared chin and a busty bust (Marilyn Monroe).
Norma Jean Baker had multiple major hair make-overs and cosmetic surgery (nose, chin, chest) to transform into Marilyn Monroe.
The Cuban actress transformed into Marilyn Monroe through movie magic (cosmetics, prosthetics, wigs, lighting, black and white Alexa camera, infrared light, halation, LiveGrain).
Norma Jean Baker did not look like Marilyn Monroe yet she played her. Ditto for the Cuban actress.
MM did not have breast enhancement. The bovine cartilage insert in her chin was done by Dr. Gurdin and had dissolved in 1958. The nose whittled away a bump at the tip. Her teeth were real. Her body was real. Her hair was bleached. Her eyes were blue and as a child, she had white hair. She had tons of freckles. She had an appendectomy scar and later a huge one for gall bladder surgery. She was as real as it gets.
It took them 10 yrs to find someone to play her and it was Ana de Armas.
To double-down on the 'victimhood'.
Monroe belonged to the most privileged of ethnicities/races (i.e. she was a white woman of Scots-English ancestry). Such privilege doesn't suit the purposes of the hack filmmakers behind this pity parade. So, they decided to cast a 'WOC'.
Of course, it's ludicrous to describe Ana de Armas as a 'WOC', but that's how she's perceived by the media elite. After all, in Knives Out, she is portrayed as the 'poor, unfortunate ethnic minority' in contrast to the rich white people she works for (at least one of whom is played by, Jamie Lee Curtis, a member of an *actually* oppressed minority), although interestingly enough, her mother and sister in the film, who are signposted as 'less virtuous' than her, are actually darker-skinned Latinas than the borderline WASPy-looking de Armas.
Since I'm half-Portuguese, I guess by Hollywood standards, my mother and I must be POC, if the entirely Spanish de Armas is a WOC (and arguably, we're *more* oppressed than de Armas, since *her* people, the Spanish, tried to colonise *my* people, the Portuguese).
Drive by troll post; guaranteed replies. Well done.
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