Sentences with phrase «white actress»

It's also bittersweet, given that it's been a great year for white actresses, not so much for any lead actress of color.

Asian - American media group MANAA criticizes the film for casting white actresses as mixed - raced characters.

He rapidly rose to leading roles in such actioners as Ice Station Zebra (1968) and 100 Rifles (1969); in the latter film, he stirred up controversy by sharing several steamy scenes with white actress Raquel Welch.

The reality of our culture is that Garland and the studios could've gotten away with casting only white actresses to play its badass, complicated, female scientists, and perhaps even earned praise for passing the Bechdel Test in the process.

The casting of white actress Tilda Swinton in «Doctor Strange» as the Ancient One, a character portrayed as a Tibetan man in the original Marvel comics, has led to criticisms of whitewashing.

Yet she is played by white actress Mackenzie Davis.

With Cuomo's family name and a long record as someone who started out as a housing advocate, it won't be easy for a wealthy white actress to convince poor people that she'll do a better job feeling their pain.

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It hands off its own whitewashing — its own insistence on having a bankable white actress on its one - sheet — onto the narrative itself.

For a series otherwise grounded in small human moments, Better Things spends too much time asking the audience to sympathize with the plight of an upper - middle - class white actress who's biggest problems seem to be that she's occasionally passed up for the likes of Julie Bowen and Rachel McAdams.

He continued, «And the nominees for best white actress are...»

Tell me what you think of Denzel Washington avoiding love scenes with white actresses.

Vanity Fair had routinely come under fire for seemingly disregarding the Hollywood «It» potential of actors like Gabourey Sidibe, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2010, when the «Hollywood Issue» featured only white actresses.

She was no longer merely the sidekick or the villain the main character (usually a white actress) knocks off within the film's first 30 minutes.

VIOLA As we feared but predicted Hollywood wasted the golden years right after The Help (a white actress in that kind of huge hit / breakthrough would have gotten a ton of follow up offers) and kept on casting Viola Davis in thankless supporting bits that didn't really require her skill level.

Yes, casting a white actress to play a Native role is a dumb f*cking thing to do, but never fear — it gets worse.

I just couldn't stomach ten white actresses.

A note about the almost complete whiteness of the choices: I chose all white actresses because they seem to dominate the whole idea of cultivating an Oscar - winning career (though no doubt Halle Berry would have broken through).

Tilda Swinton's casting as the Ancient One in «Doctor Strange» has been the source of controversy since it was announced last year, with critics calling the casting of a white actress as a character that was a Tibetan man in the comics the latest example of Hollywood whitewashing.

Accusations of whitewashing clanged around the Internet, loudened by ultimately unfounded rumors that Johansson, a white actress, would be made to appear Asian in the film.

Instead of the movie's creative team owning their desire for a white actress to headline a Japanese property, they got cute — or convinced themselves that they were being cute — expecting moviegoers to swallow their race - based twist as a clever bit of subverted expectations; to use their public relations nightmare to prop up a resolutely dull screenplay.

Fans of Masamune Shirow's manga series claimed that it was another Hollywood whitewashing incident, with a white actress was cast in a role originally written as a Japanese character.

Chris Rock thinks Jennifer Lawrence should stop complaining about her movie pay as black women get paid far less than white actresses.

So why would the American remake star a white actress?