Galaxy Guardian Zoe Saldana (who played the green-skinned Gamora) cries while offering Steven Canals’ Instagram audience a live apology for playing singer Nina Simone in a 2016 movie, because Simone was blacker than she. Saldana, who’s of Haitian, Dominican and Lebanese heritage, says she should have tried hard to get another actress to play the role, rather than use make-up to simulate the Simone skin tone.
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The only non-white actor in Hamilton plays King George.
The interesting part is Hamilton is now coming under fire since Linn-Manuel showed good things about a slave owner.
Also, no one seems to have listened to the words of the songs and the whole theme of a fatherless child, self-made, immigrating to the colonies and being a champion of freedom.
(White? Not non-white?)
Yep, thanks. My mind was trying to write non-POC actor. I claim being at the beach on Vacation and having Steve Green’s non-frozen Margarita recipe with me.
My first recollection of Zoe Saldana was in a little movie called Center Stage. She can also dance and is a fine performer. I don’t care about skin color in a role, are you any good?
Emo Philips
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
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He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.
Well I was gonna ask Bill Whittle to play me after I die but he isn’t the right skin color. I imagine I will be quite pale and a bit green around the edges.
So Gene, you are admitting to being one of those aliens like we all suspected. 🙂 Now we have to guess the star system and planet. Hopefully neither you or Bill have to figure this out any time soon.
I have admitted to nothing of the sort, other than I AM the person your parents warned you about. 😎
So, during our zoom calls, your backgrounds were real and your image was created. Were you actually smoking cigars or just breathing your natural methane?
Oh the cigars are real. But they are filled with the agonized tears of WOKE liberal snowflakes. And, a bit of methane. Just enough to keep them lit.😁
Let’s see if she feels bad enough about it to donate the money from that movie. She should also donate the money that she made while wearing blue and green skin tones.
And BTW, as a white male, etc.! why should I have seen the movie at all? There is no way I could understand or be emotionally involved with Simone’s life?
It’s time to stop commenting on these kinds of stories. Time to stop being concerned with these idiotic concerns. If this is a problem for the “ black community” then they can get all worked up; I do not care.
We are merely feeding the beast if we do otherwise.
I had the pleasure of meeting the incomparable Nina Simone after a performance in Jerusalem in the 70’s… she probably would have laughed at this crap… now I will have to watch the film to get an idea if she does her justice…
I have a friend in the fashion biz and suggested we do t-shirts with various multi-hued flesh tone paint chips on back and the question “What Hue are you?
That sounds like a winner. For at least a couple weeks. Then as they got popular they’d be the next red MAGA hat, inviting abuse from the triggered producers of oscillating mechanism impacting bovine material.
What is even more absurd is the fact that the summertime-tanned Nina Simone was not the same shade as the wintertime Nina Simone. Yes, even folks with dark pigment can tan when exposed to UV.
The only politically correct position is that Nina Simone is the only person who can play the part of Nina Simone. Anyone else is doing politically incorrect cultural appropriation. I don’t know who Nina Simone is and I don’t even know if she is alive or dead. That shouldn’t matter. The only politically correct position is set. It is Nina Simone or nobody.
Art is a representation of something and not an exact replication. It highlights what the artist thinks is important and deemphasizes or hides what the artists thinks is unimportant. If political correctness demands exact replication, art can no longer exist and artists have no function to perform.
I suggest this is one of the fallouts from insistence that one must be politically correct and that political correctness must be exactly current to the exact present opinion of those who create the correctness. One second later, it is forbidden if it is no longer politically correct.
The intent is to prohibit human thought and the discovery of anything new.
She just HAD to go there. Now I can’t watch GOTG or the Star Trek reboot without knowing this about her.
I suppose you can always pretend she’s someone else while watching her pretend she is someone else.
LOL – now there’s a thought! I’ll watch one and see how effective I am at that. No promises, I’m old and stubborn.
At this rate HRH Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark is going to be a very busy man. If you want to stage or film Hamlet he’s the only one who can play the prince.
Maybe, at a push. you could hire his brother Prince Joachim, but he’s not the first son. In fact, even Frederick is problematic. He is the eldest son of the Queen Regnant, not the King. Hmmm…
Hamlet fans will have to wait until Frederick becomes King and his son Christian is Crown Prince. Christian should be in his 20s by then. Ideal.
Pheww! We got there in the end. We might have to wait a while but SO much easier than the bad old days when actors were paid to pretend to be different people. All those auditions and stuff, what a faff.