Yeah, something felt a bit off when i wrote that. I think "certain" audiences have concern with the casting hefe because they equate black actors, especially swarthier ones with being "street types". Thank goodness for amazing folks like Idris who has acclaimed range and acceptance (except for Bond). Hollywood switches race in relaunched projects all the time. Some people wan5 to cling on only to earlier incarnations though. Like Jay says, "... want my old [stuff], buy my old albums". O'Barr, writer of the Crow graphic novel had a great paraphrasing of that, too.
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activista
8 years ago
"Street types?" There are white actors who play "street types",too. Black actors/actresses can play more than "street types", but they don't often get to show the full range of their talents like their white counterprts always get to do, because they get stereotyped only into certain roles simply because they are black (which was the whole point of the "#OscarSoWhite" issue. "Swarthier" ones? I didn't think anybody even used that out-of-date 19th-century term anymore. Black folks aren't "swarthy", we're black---period. Also, Jack Bauer was great, but lets face it---the character had his day. Time for some new blood to get passed the baton and to run with it.
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leyenda61
8 years ago
Maybe something got lost in translation in my post cuz ur preaching to the choir.
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