So we aren't going to discuss it?

[sportscribe]

What's wrong with Forrest Whittakers name?
Djimon Hounsou's name?
Idris Elbas name?

Name the blockbusters those actors had as the main protagonist.

NFL politics is not an interesting sell. The movie would flop with those guys as leads. Maybe Idris might pull, but not Djimon or Forrest. Beyond that Will Smith is more marketable across a wider audience than any of those guys.

 

[Koba St]

I don't see the huge deal. Nobody was kicking up a fuss when Denzel played Malcolm, which is a darker skinned actor playing the lighter skinned Malcolm.

.....

 

[Jean Jacket]

The are both Black. What's more important? Debates on colorism or TBIs?

 

[Colicat]

fukk that. You got Africans playing black american roes all the time

True... What's his name played Martin Luther King

But don't act like y'all wouldn't question

Playing

 

[awkwardblackgirl]

That accent

 

[Colicat]

Are you even sure they wanted to do this movie?
You're just talking out of your stank ass

Kiss my stank ass... What makes you think they even had the opportunity to pass on this role?

 

[sportscribe]

snip

Well one is black while one is mixed race. There's a difference there.

Only thing wrong with Will Smith being cast is his terrible generic African accent.

 

[Beck.er.]

I couldn't get past the accent in the previews.
I remember thinking 'is Will Smith supposed to be... Nigerian?'

What they did with his Kenyan wife is just as bad

 

[Colicat]

I couldn't get past the accent in the previews.
I remember thinking 'is Will Smith supposed to be... Nigerian?'

What they did with his Kenyan wife is just as bad

Wow!

 

[PhonZhi]

OP, Will looks nothing like the guy he portrayed in the Pursuit Of Happiness either

 

[Colicat]

Name the blockbusters those actors had as the main protagonist.

NFL politics is not an interesting sell. The movie would flop with those guys as leads. Maybe Idris might pull, but not Djimon or Forrest. Beyond that Will Smith is more marketable across a wider audience than any of those guys.

.....

Forrest Whitaker played Idi Amin in an Oscar winning performance
Djimon played Cinque and was the face and body of Calvin Klein for years

Talk about mass appeal

 

[Cabbage Patch]

I guess we aren't going to mention how Hollywood and the media is portraying Dr. Omalu ?

He's a very handsome elder Black man... Looks like my granddaddy....a round teddy bear type

So this actually is gonna go unnoticed?

The history that is currently being written is that Dr. Omalu was 6 inches taller, slim and trim, and light skin.

Damn they fukking with history long before the witnesses are gone...

Knowing good and damn well these brothers would have been a better fit

And before y'all even start, not only are they

his image, they are also fukking with his legacy


'Concussion' movie doctor exaggerated CTE role, researchers say



What's the solution to this brehs and brehettes?

I'm happy they cast a black man with a black wife and black children who is unashamed to be black.


They could have cast a white man and gone the 'based on a true story' route. Or focused on white colleagues and made him a side character in his own story.

In the war of picking battles, let this one go and let Will get his damn Oscar nomination, bruh.

 

[Malta]

The previews are cringe worthy when he says "Tell d troof"

 

[Will Ross]

It's about making money and will brings in the money.

 

[Neil Tyson]

You say that because your ass is light skin and can easily see your image reflected back to you in a variety of characters