So this is how black actors end up with shytty roles

[Trajan]

Chris Rock on the roles he's offered.



If you can't watch he says he had a meeting with Harvey Weinstein who was the owner of Miramax. Chris Rock goes in there super excited like '' This is Harvey Weinstein who made classics like The English Patient, The Piano.''

Weinstein tells him he has a film for him called ''Rapper Bus''. The premise is Chris Rock is driving a bus full of rappers. . .

Chris Rock: . Where's The English Patient at?


LOL

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I mean it's no secret black actors play shytty roles because those are the only ones available to them.

Film companies are more willing to take risk with white actors and allow them to show range more than they would with black actors.

Jonah Hill is a two-time Academy Award nominee.
Let that sink in.

 

[Groanman]

Surprise surprise

 

[Trajan]

Jonah Hill is a two-time Academy Award nominee.
Let that sink in.

Damn.

Meanwhile Chris Rock said he gets offered "quick-talking mailroom guy" and "Zebras"

 

[BaggerofTea]

Hollywood's time will come

 

[King Poetic]

As a new actor I'll take a couple of roles but at least 6 figures minimum....

Then take that money and invest into independent films...

Make quality movies for 1 million and hopefully double or triple the gross

 

[MikeyC]

There's a decent movie in that Rapper Bus idea...

 

[Red Maverick II]

As long as we don't own any studios, this will always happen

I don't know why a bunch of Black celebs haven't pooled their resources to fund a non-ignorant indie film yet

That would be a good start

 

[el_oh_el]

Unfortunately they write scripts to make money, and since racist white America isn't really interested in seeing too many non white faces on screen then scripts aren't casted like that

 

[AintNoCrampInYaMouthTho]

My sympathy ran dry for Black celebs long time ago. All the money and resources nobody thought hey lets come together and start some shyt so young black talent don't have to go through the same bullshyt we went through

 

[Trajan]

There's a decent movie in that Rapper Bus idea...

Sounds like a bus version of Soul Plane.

 

[el_oh_el]

My sympathy ran dry for Black celebs long time ago. All the money and resources nobody thought hey lets come together and start some shyt so young black talent don't have to go through the same bullshyt we went through

Likely don't want to be black balled by the Jewish cacs

 

[Ol’Otis]

Likely don't want to be black balled by the Jewish cacs

it seems like they're black balled now
they barely get work anyway

 

[Ol’Otis]

this the type shyt make me not wanna pursue filmmaking

 

[BrothaZay]

Unfortunately they write scripts to make money, and since racist white America isn't really interested in seeing too many non white faces on screen then scripts aren't casted like that

Yea but in the 90s they was green lighting hood movies all the time, and this was the early 90s, bacc before hip hop and black culture in general was as dominant and popular as it was in the early 2000s.

Why is that?