Vanessa Calloway: “I Didn’t Get The Role Of Lisa McDowell in Coming To America because of colorism.”

[Kyle C. Barker]

I think you forgot biology class it's more rare but a kid could literally come out in any phenotype including what we think of as European features.

You wish you was as nice as me on them punnet squares

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

I mean, it’s not like Eddie doesn’t have a history of this:

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

“She continued, “That’s something that we’ve always dealt with within our race: A lot of men were indoctrinated by having a white woman or light-skinned woman on their arm.”

Women always try to make
Colorist/Colorism
A one way street
The shyt I heard growing up
As a dark skin kid
A lot of that shyt came from women
I’ll never forget hearing a girl I had a huge crush on
At lunch
Talking cash shyt
We were the same complexion
Verbatim
“I could never date a dark skin nikka
I don’t want my kids coming out like midnight”
shyt had me

 

[DamienWayne]

In the 80's they were not going to have two dark skinned people star in a big budget movie like that , if it wasn't Eddie Murphy they would have made Lisa Latina

 

[shopthatwrecks]

when she says tahiti...my nuts juggle......she got the sexiest accent in that movie...

 

[shopthatwrecks]

she bad too

eddie >>theo huxtable>>> will smith >>>> eddie winslow

 

[spliz]

It does happen when the parents are 2 different shades but those 2 daughters are straight biracial. That wasn't realistic at all lol

Bruh. This is just false. It DOES happen and more often than u think,

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

That’s why I could never get into The Cosby Show... the casting seemed off to me with the two light skinned daughters.

They could have took after granddaddy huxtable

 

[Still Benefited]

The ones the cast in the roles played into certain stereotypes. The light skin pretty boy shyt and the light skin AKA type of girl.

Eric Lasalle isn't light skinned though?

That’s why I could never get into The Cosby Show... the casting seemed off to me with the two light skinned daughters.

this is true,but they gave you 3 dark skinned children as well,so maybe they just wanted to have representation of all shades. Cosby show sort of has to get a pass on that imo. Hillary Banks and Tatyani Ali doesn't make sense technically,you have to leave room for them casting the best actors for the role as well.

 

[spliz]

They could have took after granddaddy huxtable

nikkas never heard of recessive genes.

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

That’s why I could never get into The Cosby Show... the casting seemed off to me with the two light skinned daughters.

I've seen this play out in real life when it comes to black family units.I don't think it's too much of a reach.Not even a reach at all.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I mean, it’s not like Eddie doesn’t have a history of this:

Sounds like a gateway drug to White women

 

[Crayola Coyote]

The sequel is coming out. I have no intention of watching it though. They should’ve left it as it was.

THIS it makes no sense to even make one.

 

[010101]

that's a bottomless pit

leave it alone

ha

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[Still Benefited]

Eddie did talk to Wesley and kept it a buck

"Ultimately, Snipes’ rejection by Murphy was not due to his skill level. Murphy finally broke it down, explaining that the two actors simply looked too much alike for Snipes to be cast as his adversary.

“Our look was too close,” Murphy said. “And you actually look more African than me!” Snipes then joked that had he known that before, he would’ve felt much better about his place in the entertainment industry.

“I didn’t know none of that man. That would’ve healed me,” Snipes said. “I was in the bathroom, ‘Why am I even doing this, man? I’m not gonna quit! They not gonna break me down, man!’”