Reminds me of the bit at the end of Deadpool when he says they were considering Keira Kightly for Cable because she has range.
“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”
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JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Queue Dave Chappelle and his sketch ‘Negrodamas’
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I predict a movie called The Last Black Man on Earth, starring Tom Hanks
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
amda@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing! Had no idea NASSA existed 🫡
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I mean, if its a documentary on the last black man on earth, it couldn’t actually be played by a black man.
Unless it was produced in space, or on another planet, I suppose.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Have you considered that
(a) documentaries do not need actors, and
(b) if they did, the last black man earth could star as himself?
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same as when SNL wanted men to play female politicians in sketches when Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were right there and smashed it in the end.
psud@aussie.zone 1 year ago
SNL is comedy, and there’s comedy in using a man to portray a woman. That’s not the same as using the wrong sort of person because you think it doesn’t matter
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ok, you choose a man instead of Tina Fey to play a Sarah Palin and see how much funnier that won’t be.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hollywood Executives can collectively only name at most seven actors at a given time.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All of these large industries are run by idiots
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re run by the same average people who work for them. You don’t need to be an idiot to fuck up running something as large and complicated as a trans-national corporation. You don’t need to be a genius to coast in a position that already prints money.
We’re simply not that different from one another. The genius/idiot dichotomy is far more about variances in education, culture, and propagandized bigotry than finding actual differences in intellect.
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I mean they do this all time, for example, that amazon series about lord of the rings.
Zannsolo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not real people and their skin color has nothing to do with the story. Biopics about black people generally have to do with their struggles as a black person so having a white person play them is wrong and dilutes the value of that person’s story because a white person doesn’t have the same adversities.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
citation needed
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
Did they not publish their casual conversation for peer review???
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
Citation is that this is a meme.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This is what makeup is for
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That would get them a lot of publicity
Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 year ago
She’s the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Next Summer they’ll show Black Hitler
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 year ago
How did they get so far as producing an entire episode? Seriously?!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Conan had Jewish Hitler on at one point. I think Sarah Silverman talked about it on a podcast recently but I can’t remember which one right now
MTK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hitlack or Blitler?
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would not be surprised if that was the title of Kanye’s next album.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe he’s doing a reverse Joaquin Phoenix, going from music artist to actor, just with more antisemitism.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
KanyeClayton West
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s weird how the reverse is somehow ok now. Anne Boleyn played by a black woman why not? Historical accuracy sucks.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Because people aren’t depicting Jesus as a white Caucasian male?
If the skin colour isn’t relevant to the story, it doesn’t matter. If it is relevant, it does.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jesus was a Palestinian, so it’s ok to take Arab jobs and give em to black actors? Cleopatra was Greek/arab so I guess they can take their roles too.
It’s funny how everyone who isn’t black is suddenly white when it’s convenient. This isn’t black actors taking the roles of white Americans, it’s black actors playing Egyptians, Greeks, arabs, latinos, Asians. Are all those people white??
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So I can hire Toby McGuire to play Sammy Davis jr and nobody will be mad?
myotheraccount@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is different, if color of skin is a relevant part of the context of the story. Having John Brown played by a black man would be equally misleading.
For Anne Boleyn’s story on the other hand, racism did not play a part, because it wasn’t even invented yet.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did… did you just say racism wasnt a thing in 1530s Tudor England?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
…ok hol’ up.
Racism wasn’t invented by 1536, the year she got beheaded? The Portuguese had already transported the first slave ship to Brazil 10yr earlier, even if we pretend there was complete racial harmony before the transatlantic slave trade began, which is an absolutely insane thing to pretend, that still started before her death. Not to mention the fact that racism (and slavery no less) has been around since long before “transatlantic” was even a concept.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 year ago
White people where never opressed and there is no danger of erasing white people and their achievements from histor, so yes, the reverse is very ok.
VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
White people were never opressed
You need to study history then. Even if you mean oppressed in the US your narrative is wrong:
lagazzettaitaliana.com/…/8996-america-land-of-lib…
academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl…
…csuohio.edu/…/chapter-6-anti-italian-sentiment-i…
nytimes.com/…/polishamericans-mounting-counterdri…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/104973239200200205
and so on…
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As someone loves history, it’s not ok. Especially when the “white” people being erased aren’t even white. Cleopatra wasn’t white but she’s sure as hell wasn’t black. A lot of the characters being turned black are Greek, Latino, Irish, Italian, Arab, Asian. So is that ok? For a black actor to get the job of every other race? Why not a blank woman playing pancho villa? Maybe get idris alba to play the Dali lama.
Korne127@lemmy.world 1 year ago
OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
World’s first white first black president.
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Completely unrealistic and understandable. Suit needs to be tan.
Case@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Don’t forget his choice in condiments.
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Take it easy man, we do not want to over stage Citizen Kane, here.
Mr. Tan Suit would win best supporting actor, AND best costume design, by itself.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
“Hollywood is crazy. The Last Samurai, staring Tom Cruise…?!”
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
What are they gonna do next? The Last Ni*** on Earth, starring Tom Hanks?
- this is a quote from Chapelle’s show, just to be clear
gradual@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Hollywood is a cult.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Blueberry pancakes are delicious.
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
The last Samurai is not played by Tom Cruise. He plays a guy who gets to know and grows to respect the last Samurai and Japanese culture.
Ken Watanabe as Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto, he plays the eponymous “Last Samurai.”
Clearly you have not even watched the damn movie. Or what is your point?
But we are all good with a black woman playing the real life British Anne Boleyn?
Man, can’t wait until we find out which white actor will play Barack Obama in his biopic. I mean, diversity is our strength.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, Tom Cruise was The First Weeaboo.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
So, you missed the link…? Or, just lost your sense of humor in the war?
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
1-You had to actually watch the full movie to get any of that context
2-It’s still Cruise’s face front and center on every piece of promotional art
3-As much as I hate that this is true, the vast majority of people who saw that movie did not do so because they heard Ken Watanabe was in it
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have watched the movie. It shows a European in a role absolutely impossible in upper layers of Japanese society of that time.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
They should get Lisa Kudrow to play Rosa Parks.
anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Conan O’Brien as Desmond Tutu.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Rose O’Donnell as George Washington Carver.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Hmmm so you need woman of colour? Maybe Gal Gadot? /s
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
If Hollywood ever did a film about Gaza they would unironically use Gal Godot in the role of a Palestinian woman.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 year ago
No doubt with lines like “They only hate Israel because of their religion” and “The IDF is protecting me, despite being Palestinian”
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It also be “both sides have something to learn from each other!” Oscar bait a la Crash or Green Book.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
sirico@feddit.uk 1 year ago
This is crazy, I mean Roberts is from the South and Tubman from the north, no one’s going to believe it!
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
True! It’s called acting for a reason.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Howdy y’all- cough cough Hey youse guys. I’m walkin’ 'ere!
x4740N@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The article led me down a rabbit hole leading to an article about the ghost in the shell movie adaptation promo meme generator being used to criticise the whitewashing in the movie adaptation
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is obviously a perfect role for Ryan Gosling
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think he is already scheduled to star in the MLK movie, so not sure he would have the time
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AI Morgan Freeman
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Why AI? Wtf, you made me think he died. Don’t do this to me.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Am I the only one who doesn’t know who Harriet Tubman is?
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never be afraid to ask a question to rectify a lack of knowledge.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TL;DR, she was an insanely brave black woman who helped a metric fuck ton of slaves escape the south.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
She’s the original free runner www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1dhATC-ekQ
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You are drunk, and possibly racist, no one is doing blackface!
Cocopanda@futurology.today 1 year ago
Being rich doesn’t mean you’re smart.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tyler Perry?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh god, it’s real.
mrbubblesort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Halle Berry though… 🤔
Enzy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I vote for Danny DeVito