Sentences with phrase «casting white actors»

Director Alex Garland's Annihilation recently came under fire for being the latest example of a movie casting white actors as characters who were people of color in the source material.

But is casting white actors the best way of combatting racism?

Having the stereotype of being lousy lovers and boring computer nerds certainly does not help, nor does the Hollywood habit of casting white actors in Asian roles because they are seen as more bankable, which can sometimes be interpreted to mean «more desirable.»

Iron Fist has recently come under fire for a number of reasons; if reviews are to be believed, it's nowhere near the gold standard of previous Marvel - Netflix collaborations, while many have accused the show of whitewashing, due to the decision to cast a white actor, Finn Jones, in the title role.

But none of that should distract from the overall trend in Hollywood to cast white actors in non-white roles — even when it's done unintentionally.

And he was both thoughtful and pragmatic when I asked him about the necessity of casting a white actor in a lead role in order to get his film funded.

The victim of withering reviews, Pan has also suffered from bad press after Wright cast the white actor Rooney Mara in the role of Tiger Lily, traditionally a Native American character.

-- we submit that maybe «Gods of Egypt» makers were going for the same effect as that production of «The Mountaintop» that cast a white actor to play Martin Luther King.

Not exact matches

Hoping to avoid the possibility of a white actor taking on the role of the Chinese warrior, Molnar wrote: «Casting a Caucasian actor as a character of colour, regardless of reason has a direct, harmful impact on not only the movie itself, but the audience, as well as POC members of the acting community.»

Saturday Night Live is having a revival of popularity as its hard - hitting satire and perfectly casted actors — like Melissa McCarthy's hilarious portrayal of White House spokesman Sean Spicer and Alec Baldwin as Trump — speaks to the country's latest concerns about the various chaos and insanity emerging from Trump's administration.

The extraordinary quality of White's script and Arteta's direction lifts the meticulously cast actors to the height of their abilities.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

Led by Denzel Washington (2 Guns), as sometime lawman Sam Chisolm, that cast includes white guys Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil), but also actors Byung - hun Lee (I Saw the Devil), Manuel Garcia - Rulfo (Cake) and relative newcomer (and Native - American actor) Martin Sensmeier (Lilin's Brood), making the overall balance of the titular group more diverse than in 1960.

No, the white characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» series.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

One possible scenario that exists would be if voters want to respond or send a message about the Oscar white out and vote for Idris Elba in Male Actor in a Supporting Role or his film, Beasts of No Nation, in Outstanding Cast.

When challenged over casting a white Australian and a white Brit as the leads in his Biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, director Ridley Scott responded brusquely, «I can't mount a film of this budget... and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such... I'm just not going to get it financed.

Ghost in the Shell, which will be distributed by Paramount, was widely accused of whitewashing after Johansson and other white actors were cast as the traditionally Japanese characters.

In fact, a lot of the attention directed at the film has come in the form of people criticizing Scott for filling the main cast of a movie set in Egypt with spray - tanned white actors.

As a longtime character actor who has shined among ensemble casts (think: Juno's deadpan dad or Bob, a laid off white collar worker, in two of director Jason Reitman's Oscar - bait films), Whiplash co-star J.K. Simmons appreciated receiving the Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

It displays the same black - and - white stunning visuals, along with another all - star cast, where returning actors like Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Powers Boothe and Rosario Dawson are joined by new faces like Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Juno Temple, Ray Liotta, Lady Gaga, Jeremy Piven, Dennis Haysbert and, as the lady of the title, Eva Green.

He then goes on to also seemingly criticize them for casting black actor Chiwetel Ejiofor as Baron Mordo, a character depicted as white in the comic books.

And what of Tessa Thompson, a black actor reportedly just cast as Thor's love interest (possibly as Valkyrie, as white / blond / blue - eyed as Thor himself in the comics) in his next solo adventure Ragnarok?

Pastor Paul (2015 — Nigeria) When a white tourist travels to West Africa, gets cast in a micro-budget version of «Hamlet», and is possessed by a ghost, anything can and does happen in this film that multi-hyphenate director - writer - actor Jules David Bartkowski calls «the world's first American Nollywood film.»

I guess the movie might be praised for its casting diversity, incorporating white actors to a larger degree than most black - leaning productions do.

It's easy to understand why Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 Biblical epic The Ten Commandments had a principal cast made up almost entirely of white actors, despite being set in Egypt - it was released in 1956, after all.

Portman is surrounded by a good supporting cast, including Greta Gerwig as White House Social Secretary Nancy Tuckerman, Crudup as the reporter who knows all along that he will never be permitted to print most of his interview and Danish actor Caspar Phillipson, who bears an amazing resemblance to the late President Kennedy.

However, when director Ridley Scott mounted his own production of the Moses story, titled Exodus: Gods and Kings, quite a few heads were turned by the fact that the principal cast - which includes Christian Bale as Moses, Joel Edgerton as Rhamses and Aaron Paul as Joshua - was comprised almost exclusively of white actors.

Kitty Green, director of «Casting JonBenet,» photographed with Dixon White, one of the actors she cast in her documentary about the JonBenet Ramsey Case.

When: January 8th Why: Believe it or not, «The Forest» isn't a remake of a Japanese horror flick, but rather an original story whose makers somehow thought it would be a good idea to cast mostly white actors in a movie about a real - life problem in Japan.

When The Boys in the Band opens on the Great White Way this month, it will be one hell of a celebration, marking the 50th anniversary of the Off Broadway debut with a hotly anticipated cast that comprises only openly gay actors.

Moonlight, an intimate story of a black boy in Miami coming to terms with his sexuality, had a low profile in the industry — it was the first movie fully financed by upstart distributor A24, and the most famous person in the cast was Mahershala Ali, a TV actor largely unknown to Telluride's mostly white audiences.

If White had been mugging to the camera right along with Tommy Davidson, Arsenio Hall, and the other actors that fill out the cast with over-the-top performances, the movie would have been a trainwreck.

Our suggestion is that Emmerich just bites the bullet and casts an actor named Interchangeable White Pretty Boy.

Frank Langella has joined the cast of Unknown White Male, rounding out the cast of the Liam Neeson - starring thriller, presumably because he's one of a relatively small number of actors in Hollywood tall enough to pretty much look Neeson in the eye.

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Her post on Facebook went on to suggest that producers were looking to add «va va voom to the cast list» by casting non-white actors and that the policy was putting «talented white performer's [sic] out of work».

And then there's the casting of two white actors, Alfred Molina and Christopher Abbott (James White, Girls), as Afghan characwhite actors, Alfred Molina and Christopher Abbott (James White, Girls), as Afghan characWhite, Girls), as Afghan characters.

The film is said to be about one white couple and one black couple; if cast, Nyong» o and Duke will play one, while Moss and another actor will play the other.

Kubo would probably rank higher if it hadn't stumbled by casting exclusively white actors to voice Asian characters.

Leading actor Christian Bale has defended director Ridley Scott following controversy over the casting of white actors in roles despite the film being set in the Middle East and Africa.

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«Suture» had a weird plot made weirder by the non-traditional casting of black actor Dennis Haysbert as the long - lost brother of a rich white man.

However, «White House Down» does benefit from some great chemistry between Tatum and Foxx, and the supporting cast is excellent, even if many of the actors are wasted in throwaway roles.

He's wonderful of course but for a film based in Africa that's already cast several white actors, it would be nice if at least all the leads were POC.

Professional actors in the cast include P.J. Byrne, Jenna Fischer, Judy Greer, Tony Hale, Thomas Lennon, and Jaleel White, among others, while longtime Eastwood collaborator Tom Stern is behind the camera.

Other formerly white characters were cast with black actors, including Idris Elba as Norse god Heimdall in Thor, and Michael B Jordan as the Fantastic Four's Human Torch.

Spoofing the Hollywood system is already a tricky business — most of the time, these movies are so loaded with in - jokes that it's difficult for the audience to relate — but when you couple that with the controversial casting of a white actor playing a black character for most of the film, there's little room for error.

The cast featured an African - American actor as Huck and a white actor as Jim, the runaway slave.

Most movies with an Asian background have been moved to a North American setting, or had the cast replace with white actors.