Sentences with phrase «white actors in»

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

In the first known movie version, from 1903, the aging, potbellied Tom is played by a white actor in blackface, and black actors playing slaves dance merrily at the beginning of each scene.

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In a tweet, he acknowledged a Russian «anti-U.S. campaign,» and in the White House statement he called the country a «bad actor.&raquIn a tweet, he acknowledged a Russian «anti-U.S. campaign,» and in the White House statement he called the country a «bad actor.&raquin the White House statement he called the country a «bad actor.»

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.»

Reagan was a well - known actor before he became president, but he wasn't always watching his own films in the White House theater — that was only on special occasions like his birthday.

«And [on Monday], we heard the White House Press Secretary condemn the act but very deliberately skirt the actor, which, by all accounts, appears to be Moscow in this case.»

After two romance flops in 2012, the Gerard Butler White House action thriller solidifies the actor's genre in theaters.

This film, shot in black - and - white and starring French actor Jean Dujardin, was released in fewer than 2,000 theaters.

Actually sanctioning Russian actors would be even more useful, but with the White House unwilling to follow through with sanctions already in place, that seems unlikely.

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

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.

Related: for the second time in 20 years, every single actor nominated for an Oscar is white.

they all look like dudes from Huntington Beach... and listening to all the heavy British accented actors portenting to be pre AD middle easterners is hysterical... I believe the Burnetts are good people but they live in a make believe Christian world where things are literally black and white including it seems Lucifer...!

Well, after talking to just about every white male actor who's ever been in a movie, it appears Marvel has made their choice for their highly anticipated next big...

Woody Harrelson is an award - winning actor who has appeared in films including White Men Can't Jump, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers and The People vs. Larry Flynt, as well as Meat Free Monday's own film One Day a Week.

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.

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.

As the Trump administration charts its course with new actors at the helm, such as Pompeo or Bolton, it is important to remember that neither personnel changes nor who occupies the White House necessarily produce radical pendulum swings in foreign policy.

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.

Women and minority actors and stage managers are getting fewer jobs and often wind up in lower - paying shows than white male theater artists, according to a new study by Actors» Eactors and stage managers are getting fewer jobs and often wind up in lower - paying shows than white male theater artists, according to a new study by Actors» EActors» Equity.

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.

Actor Parvin Dabas arrived with wife Preeti Jhangiani who looked lovely in a green and white outfit.

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.

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

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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.

In films from 1921 through 1952, white - maned American character actor Erville Alderson was most closely associated with D.W. Griffith in his early movie yearIn films from 1921 through 1952, white - maned American character actor Erville Alderson was most closely associated with D.W. Griffith in his early movie yearin his early movie years.

Since their notable appearance in a song and dance routine with actor Dick Van Dyck in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, these little black and white creatures have scored numerous screen roles in films like Madagascar, Cat's Don't Dance, Surf's Up, Happy Feet and this fall's sequel Happy Feet Two.

Previously a clerk for a London real - estate agent, white - maned, well - poised Donald Marshall Gray became a stage actor in 1952.

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.

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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.

Beefy, white - maned stage actor Hale Hamilton made his first film appearance in 1915.

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.

Despite Pacino's always - enjoyable scenery chewing, Mann and cinematographer Dante Spinotti are more interested in Crowe, the remarkable Australian actor best known previously for his role as Bud White in «L.A. Confidential.»

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.

Along with Professor Norman and his genius scientist friends (you can tell they're in the genius club because they all wear the same white lab coat), Lucy teams up with a cynical French policeman (Egyptian actor Amr Waked) to bring down her enemies.

To illustrate why folks find this trope baffling, we've swapped the leads in several movies about European and American history with East Asian actors, mirroring the storytelling cliche that repeatedly inserts white people into East Asian history.