Sentences with phrase «of white actors»

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.

Gods of Egypt is the crazy epic action - adventure movie from Alex Proyas involving lots of white actors playing mythological Egyptian gods, and the first few trailers haven't been that great as the footage looks insane.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

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.

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.

But posters for its Italian release have marginalized Chiwetel Ejiofor, who stars as the protagonist, in favor of large head shots of white actors Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.

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.»

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.

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To add insult to injury, Wilson screened The Birth of a Nation — which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and portrays actors in blackface, among its other racist offenses — in the White House and subsequently praised the film for being «so terribly true.»

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.

Take the example of actor Wesley Snipes, star of «White Men Can't Jump» and other movies.

I strongly believe the selection of an actor for the «Devil / Satan» role who is African = American and resembles President Obama is a deliberate and obvious racial and political attempt to promote fear in those people who are looking for excuses to rationalize their own bigotry and promote their white supremacist ideologies.

Sonal Shah, former Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House under US President Barack Obama, is the latest judge to be announced alongside Adrian Grenier (actor, producer and social entrepreneur), Morgan Clendaniel (Editor of Fast Company's Co.Exist) and Alex Ricard (Pernod Ricard Chairman and CEO).

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

Tiffani Theissen, Actress on television's White Collar, talks about the pros and cons of being a child actor and pressure on girls from an early age.

I'd wondered whether the Hollywood star Clint Eastwood, directing Hollywood actors Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon as the two leading characters, could possibly capture the essence, even the magic, of that final; of how it became such a unifying force for a society still in a fragile process of transition from white supremacy to majority rule, fear and hostility abounding.

There are neither purely «white knights» nor purely «black» ones; instead, there are many shades of grey among the external actors.

One of the dozens of women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexually assault broke down in tears as she recalled being forced to swallow a «large white pill» to «relax» before, she says, the actor molested her in 1996.

Days after Trump declared war on the press, calling the media «the enemy of the people» and canceling his appearance at the upcoming White House Correspondents» Dinner, the White House press corps got a shot of support from one of America's most beloved actors: Tom Hanks.

Emails, coupled with interviews and court documents, show Flynn was not a rogue actor, as the White House has suggested, but rather was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.

Right now, it is clear that far from embracing a transparent White House administration and striking a conciliatory tone with the free press of the world, Donald Trump is doubling down on his attacks and is taking punitive measures against what he considers to be a hostile actor in the 2017 United States of America.

Since then, White has brought her genius to an incomparable variety of dramas and comedies, in both television and film, published books, and received eight Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy.

It wasn't long before the shoes gained celebrity appeal, though: famous Hollywood actors such as Cary Grant and Fred Astaire were big fans of black and white shoes, particularly brogues.

And while the 24 - year - old actor - model hit the red carpet in a dapper navy suit paired with crisp white leather Common Projects Achilles sneakers, Bieber kept things much more casual in a nearly $ 600 black logo sweatshirt from one of his favorite brands, Fear of God.

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.»

Actor Dennis Rodman who is a black enjoys being in company of white women.

The allegations come after Breakfast Club actor Ally Sheedy tweeted Like many of his peers, James Franco turned up at the Golden Globes Awards wearing the black - and - white pin to support the evening's Time's Up anti-sexual

The 38 - year - old star, who was first romantically linked to the actor at the end of last year, spoke candidly about her love life and why she has never wanted a big, white wedding.

Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaw and Martin Freeman's Agent Ross will inevitably be referred to as «the white actors» in this movie, but each is vital to its success, portraying the two sides of colonization: the sneering profiteer, and the smiling, unassuming westerner whose intentions might be good, but whose motives aren't always clear.

In terms of new participants, we find material from stunt performer Isaac Hamon, Weta Workshop lead concept designer Nick Keller, Weta Workshop sculptors Kim Beaton and Jamie Beswarick, Weta Workshop concept artists Frank Victoria, Lindsey Crummett, Greg Tozer and Johnny Fraser - Allen, hair and makeup designer Peter Swords King, costume designers Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck, costumer Amy Craven, textile artist Kelly Olatunji, Weta Workshop technician Kim Docherty, special makeup and prosthetics supervisor Jason Docherty, prosthetic makeup artist Georgia Allen, master swordsmith Peter Lyon, additional costumer Emma Evans, lead creatures designer Andrew Baker, digital creature supervisor Simon Clutterbuck, textures technical supervisor Glen Sharah, senior shader TD Christopher George, VFX supervisor Chris White, texture artist Daniel Bennett, actor Manu Bennett, Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tour owner Russell Alexander, supervising art director Simon Bright, art director Brian Massey, set dresser Ben Whale, Middle - Earth Minstrel editor / author Bradford Lee Eden, sound designer Dave Whitehead, composer David Long, and musician Neil Finn.

A prominent role in White Squall (1996) closely followed this, where Jason had the opportunity of working with the famous director Ridley Scott and actors Jeff Bridges, Ryan Phillippe, and Ethan Embry.

In addition to earning his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, he also became an icon of the era, his white - suited visage and cocky, rhythmic strut enduring as defining images of late -»70s American culture.

In the Company of Character goes for 10 minutes, 23 seconds and offers info from Spielberg, Kennedy, Day - Lewis, Carter, Kushner, Field, Jones, and actors Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, Joseph Cross, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson, John Hawkes, David Straithairn, Hal Holbrook, Julie White, and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Praise has come from those more sensitive to the issue about how Coogler is able to craft his high price - tag tale without the need to put in a white male lead in a major role, with most speaking parts going to actors of different nationalities, but descendants of Africa.

Serial fans know Pierre Watkin as the actor who originated the role of bombastic Daily Planet editor Perry White in Columbia's two Superman chapter plays of the late»40s.

He also hired an actor to play Francis in staged scenes filmed in the style of a black - and - white silent movie from the 1920s.

A native of Chicago, IL (he was once offered a contract with the Chicago White Sox by Hall - of - Famer Rogers Hornsby), Masak was classically trained as an actor at the Windy City's own CCC.

As before, Bujalski's preference for nonprofessional actors, his ear for the rhythms of conversation among bright young 20 - somethings and his adept use of a roving, hand - held camera (this time shooting in fuzzy black and white) lend the film an invigorating energy.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

When we go into a film of this sort, we expect to see White People Behaving Badly, but to view an African - American who shows such antagonism toward his own people, it becomes a more startling sight — and it must be tougher for an actor to take on such a part.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

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.

Will a person who happens to be white ever be able to make a criticism of a film or actor that is not white and not be a racist?

That's an awful lot of white people for a movie so clearly set in Japan (George Takei is not the only Asian - American actor out there, people), but that's a subject for a longer conversation.

At last year's Emmys, when lead actor Bryan Cranston beat out Dexter «s Michael C. Hall and Mad Men «s Jon Hamm, the underdog bite in the W mirrored that of Walter White «s, the cancer - stricken, primo meth - cooking family man he plays.

«Doctor Strange» and «Ghost in the Shell» reveal another glaring Hollywood problem: White actors playing characters of Asian origin

Best Picture: «The Hurt Locker» Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, «The Hurt Locker» Best Actor: Jeremy Renner, «The Hurt Locker» Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, «Julia» Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, «Inglourious Basterds» Best Supporting Actress: Edith Scob, «Summer Hours» Best Screenplay: Michael Haneke and Jean - Claude Carriere, «The White Ribbon» Best Foreign Language Film: «Summer Hours» Best Non-Fiction Film: «The Beaches of Agnes» Best Cinematography: Greig Fraser, «Bright Star»

Best Picture: Bright Star Best Directing: Jane Campion, Bright Star Best Actor: Ben Whishaw, Bright Star Best Actress: Abbie Cornish, Bright Star Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Best Supporting Actress: Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds Best Screenplay: A Serious Man Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon Best Non-Fiction Film: The Beaches of Agnes Best Cinematography: a tie between White Ribbon and Bright Star

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.