Genuine Question For The Coli About "Colorism" in Hollywood Movies

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Was there ever any outrage whatsoever about light-skinned ass Will Smith playing dark-skinned ass Richard Williams?

I'm just asking because I just got in an argument with this Shea Butter ass chick over Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone because she was lighter-skinned, but I don't remember seeing any outrage over Will Smith playing a man with such obvious "African" features like Richard Williams.

Also, do you think would it be tolerable if light-skinned actresses played Serena or Venus Williams?

Or would the world collectively lose it's shyt?

Help a brother win an argument

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Was there ever any outrage whatsoever about light-skinned ass Will Smith playing dark-skinned ass Richard Williams?

I'm just asking because I just got in an argument with this Shea Butter ass chick over Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone because she was lighter-skinned, but I don't remember seeing any outrage over Will Smith playing a man with such obvious "African" features like Richard Williams.

Also, do you think would it be tolerable if light-skinned actresses played Serena or Venus Williams?

Or would the world collectively lose it's shyt?

Help a brother win an argument

Difference is Zoe did black face


But yeah I thought it was odd that will took that role

 

[Matt504]

Difference is Zoe did black face


But yeah I thought it was odd that will took that role

She applied a fake nose and everything, her case was especially egregious. She should have passed on the role

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

She applied a fake nose and everything, her case was especially egregious. She should have passed on the role

Exactly

 

[The Solid One]

Difference is Zoe did black face


But yeah I thought it was odd that will took that role

Forrest Whitaker wore Black face for Idi Amin in the Last King of Scotland movie, and there wasn't no backlash.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Difference is Zoe did black face


But yeah I thought it was odd that will took that role

I wouldn't call it Black face.

She was doing no different than actors always do to play historical figures.

The issue was that she was light-skinned

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

I wouldn't call it Black face.

She was doing no different than actors always do to play historical figures.

The issue was that she was light-skinned

She isn't even black is she? And when has an actor ever put black makeup and a broad nose on to play a role?

 

[Take It In Blood]

I didn't watch That Thurgood Marshall movie with Chadwick cause Thurgood was dark skinned in it

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

She isn't even black is she? And when has an actor ever put black makeup and a broad nose on to play a role?

She's obviously Afro-Latino.

She's not White and this is America. she's Black here.

You other motherfukkers opinions don't matter here.

She Black here and the issue was that she was light-skinned playing a dark-skinned woman with "African" features.

And lots of actors of all races use prosthetics to play historic figures.

It's not some out of the way thing that nobody does.

 

[The Wolf Among You]

It’s not consistent, but context matters.
Darker skinned Black actresses are routinely passed over for lighter skinned/biracial actresses. It’s not really a 1:1 comparison.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

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[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

It’s not consistent, but context matters.
Darker skinned Black actresses are routinely passed over for lighter skinned/biracial actresses. It’s not really a 1:1 comparison.

This is what I typed out and edited with a '.' because if people can't understand such simple concepts no point us explaining it to them

 

[ViShawn]

The backlash about King Richard was that the movie was about a Black MAN and not the Williams sisters...even though they were executive producers of the film.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

It’s not consistent, but context matters.
Darker skinned Black actresses are routinely passed over for lighter skinned/biracial actresses. It’s not really a 1:1 comparison.

We gonna pretend that Hollywood didn't pass over dark-skinned men for years for roles except for as criminals, athletes, & comic reliefs.

That's why if you remember when Charlie Murphy did his C! True Hollywood Stories on Rick James he was talking about how there wasn't any dark-skinned actors in Hollywood that's why he called him & his brother "Darkness"

The backlash about King Richard was that the movie was about a Black MAN and not the Williams sisters...even though they were executive producers of the film.

This right here!!!!

this is what I was tellin' this broad.

They don't give a fukk about Black men suffering from colorism or any of that shyt.

They was more than happy to clown Flava Flav or any of them

 

[Will Ross]

It’s not consistent, but context matters.
Darker skinned Black actresses are routinely passed over for lighter skinned/biracial actresses. It’s not really a 1:1 comparison.

Not true at all most of the popular black actress are dark to brown skin.