I agree with those who understand this is about whitewashing and nothing else. No one would or should hire Drake to play James Brown in a biopic. There are plenty of talented dark-skinned actresses with natural hair that could have played the funk out of this role. I would not have selected a singer. The sistah who plays Michonne on Walking Dead would have been fierce!
Guess what folks? First: It’s not your business who he casts as Nina Simone. It’s not your film, you’re not spending the money and unless you are your opinion is just that. Opinion!!! Nothing is stopping you from digging in your pockets and telling the same story the way YOU want to tell it. Right??? I mean you DO have the money to make a film like this right?
Next: Zoe Saldana played a blue skinned alien with a tale and a totally tribal/primitive social being so well she changed, forever my definition of sexy. She played a being with an incredible mix of both animal and human qualities and she acted da hell out of that role. That said, I have absolutely no doubt she will play Nina Simone with the same power. Even if she falls flat on her face, she will still do better than most because she is a REAL actress. Not a line reader on film. She will do her homework and she will do well.
By the way, for you folks who don’t know, who are beating up on her because she is not black ENOUGH, let’s get down to your real feelings. This projection of that icky attitude all over a project that hasn’t happened yet, is nothing more than rank jealousy and inappropriate, mis-educated rancor at a woman who goes her own way, refuses to adopt the same tired “cultural” cliches that make insecure black men and women comfortable that she is “one of us”. And what that means to all fringe dwellers who can’t just be is—a. We get to be “all up in your business” when we should be tending our own. b. We have the right to pull you down and dog talk about you whenever you get out of line, as if we own you. Strange that a people so sensitive to being owned can’t help trying to own other people. That is the really indelible imprint of slavery on African American minds. That nasty group mind that belongs to crabs in a barrel. Get over it.
I agree with those who understand this is about whitewashing and nothing else. No one would or should hire Drake to play James Brown in a biopic. There are plenty of talented dark-skinned actresses with natural hair that could have played the funk out of this role. I would not have selected a singer. The sistah who plays Michonne on Walking Dead would have been fierce!
Guess what folks? First: It’s not your business who he casts as Nina Simone. It’s not your film, you’re not spending the money and unless you are your opinion is just that. Opinion!!! Nothing is stopping you from digging in your pockets and telling the same story the way YOU want to tell it. Right??? I mean you DO have the money to make a film like this right?
Next: Zoe Saldana played a blue skinned alien with a tale and a totally tribal/primitive social being so well she changed, forever my definition of sexy. She played a being with an incredible mix of both animal and human qualities and she acted da hell out of that role. That said, I have absolutely no doubt she will play Nina Simone with the same power. Even if she falls flat on her face, she will still do better than most because she is a REAL actress. Not a line reader on film. She will do her homework and she will do well.
By the way, for you folks who don’t know, who are beating up on her because she is not black ENOUGH, let’s get down to your real feelings. This projection of that icky attitude all over a project that hasn’t happened yet, is nothing more than rank jealousy and inappropriate, mis-educated rancor at a woman who goes her own way, refuses to adopt the same tired “cultural” cliches that make insecure black men and women comfortable that she is “one of us”. And what that means to all fringe dwellers who can’t just be is—a. We get to be “all up in your business” when we should be tending our own. b. We have the right to pull you down and dog talk about you whenever you get out of line, as if we own you. Strange that a people so sensitive to being owned can’t help trying to own other people. That is the really indelible imprint of slavery on African American minds. That nasty group mind that belongs to crabs in a barrel. Get over it.