Sentences with phrase «white actors»

But * they will * pay to see white actors play primary roles in films supposedly about people of color.

I know even then the cast is mostly made of white actors, but it is the dog characters you come to care for and root for, even when they get in peril.

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

For instance: Are we more likely to be moved by familiar, white actors who pretend than by strangers who have experienced real struggle?

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

And, on top of those two things, consider that he's black, which means he doesn't get as many truly meaty opportunities as white actors anyway.

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.»

More than 5,000 people have so far signed the motion, which calls for Warner Bros to stop casting white actors in non-white roles.

SAG - AFTRA separated itself from the Academy, which has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for only nominating white actors for a second year in a row.

This approach might balk at the problematic casting of white actors as Egyptians, non-white actors as slaves / servants, and the inexplicable preponderance of British accents.

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 asked in an interview with Variety about the decision to cast only white actors in the lead roles of Exodus: Gods and Kings, Scott was very blunt in his response, making it clear that he hadn't even considered casting non-white actors instead.

She accused Hollywood of using white actors to play heroes and «characters of colour» for villains which she argues makes it «difficult for countless children around the world to see themselves in the stories they love and think that they, too, can make a difference».

On Instagram earlier today, Chi - Raq director Spike Lee announced that he will be skipping the Oscars in protest of the Academy's second - consecutive year of entirely white actor nominations («and let's not even get into the other branches»).

Skrein's casting follows similar recent controversies in which white actors have been set for roles originally portrayed by people of Asian descent.

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.

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

Token white actor Martin Freeman (Watson in the TV Sherlock Holmes movies) plays CIA Agent Everett K. Ross and adds some much - welcomed comedic moments to the action.

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.

The sister, Anne, played by the singer Zendaya, falls in love with Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), a wealthy white actor who invests in Barnum's show for reasons the film is completely unable to explain.

That approach yields a few strong moments: Doing a tame lip - sync in a goofy sweater for smiling white actors as part of an appearance in the movie Ski Party, Brown realizes he needs a bigger, blacker sound, and the film flashes to an incendiary later performance.

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.

Vanity Fair has released its most racially diverse «Hollywood Issue» cover ever for its 20th anniversary edition, following years of criticism for featuring mostly white actors even in years with strong performances from actors of color.

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The decision to portray a family of Spaniards with white actors from the United Kingdom is a little troubling.

Do look out for their final scene together — it's an absolute gem, so good, in fact, that I completely forgot to worry about the endless controversy over white actors playing Asian characters.

«We were about to do our scene,» Serkis said, «and Ryan came up to us and said, «You know, I've never actually directed two white actors before.»»

The Indigenous perspective is fore - fronted by Geoffrey Atherden, who employs a flipped - reality for his screenplay Babakiueria (1986), directed for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by Don Featherstone, and set in a world where white actors play Indigenous Australians at the mercy of oblivious Aboriginal colonisers.

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.

It also seems an odd choice for everyone to speak Japanese except the dogs who not only all speak English but are also all portrayed by white actors.

Minority performers — For the second year in a row, all four acting categories are filled with white actors and actresses.

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.

Best Actress Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling says that the outrage over the Academy Awards» all - white actor nominations is «racist to white people.»

Considering Hollywood is known to take some creative liberties with historical texts — and has a penchant to cast mostly white actors, despite the ethnicity of the figures who they are playing — portraying Christ is a heavy cross to bear.

On the film's Italian posters, however, his image is dwarfed by those of white actors who play less prominent roles.

After the 2015 controversy surrounding the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag, the Academy faced immense pressure for having nominated nothing but white actors for the second straight year, even when they had so many brilliant performances by non-white actors that year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

In Selma, white characters are played by white actors and black characters are played by black actors.

He and his small company of black and white actors would rehearse and perform his plays whenever and whereever they could, always aware they could be raided by South African police, arrested and perhaps tortured or executed.

The film is a story about a white man and his white child, against which there is a backdrop of black faces: People to save and people to condemn, people which give the white actors meaning, purpose and moral up - righteousness.

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.

«Only if I got a white actor to be in it some way,» Don said when asked if the film could have been made sooner.

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

Mudbound, which features both black and white actors, has a 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes, making it already one of the best - reviewed films of the year.