British actress to star in Whitney Houston biopic

[RhodyRum]

I’m not feeling her as Whitney at all....

Whitney was a girl from the hood who was seen as a good girl in the public. Someone who can switch up her talk from hood to proper real quick. Whitney could do no wrong because she sang like an angel. I watched her reality show...those some tough shoes to portray


Whitney was a real one

Crackheads = Real Ones?

The sh!t some of y'all say to promote the best in blackness is so mu'fukkin' astoundingly stupid sometimes. Jesus Effing Christ!

 

[tuckgod]

Some reasons I agree with: Foreign actors are by and large trained thespians and grow up being groomed to take the art of the craft seriously.

So you think all our actors just some nikkas they pulled off a street corner, dusted them off and threw them in a couple movies, huh?

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Naomi's background indicates that she is a rising star within the industry.

And most importantly, for giving comfort to directors, writers, producers, casting agents, studios and film investors, she is a formally-trained actress, and already has some substantial credits on her resume.


Naomi Ackie was born and raised in Walthamstow, London, the daughter of second-generation immigrants from Grenada. Her father was a Transport for London employee and her mother worked for the National Health Service. She is one of three children and has an older brother and sister. She went to Walthamstow School for Girls.

Her first role was at the age of 11, playing the angel Gabriel in a school nativity play. She studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated in 2012.

Ackie's breakthrough film role was in Lady Macbeth (2016), for which she won the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2017. She subsequently appeared in the films Yardie (2018) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). She also portrayed a main role in the second season of comedy series The End of the F***ing World. She played a school inspector in Education, a drama film that is part of the anthology film series Small Axe. Ackie will star in the biographical film I Wanna Dance with Somebody, portraying American singer Whitney Houston.

Naomi Ackie - Wikipedia

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Some reasons I agree with: Foreign actors are by and large trained thespians and grow up being groomed to take the art of the craft seriously.

we need more funding in America, especially in impoverished communities For the arts to be cultivated and taken seriously. Kids in The UK are learning And doing Shakespeare at 9 years old.

I don’t agree with lowballing American actors who are qualified and running to get a foreign actor for cheap when the American wants more money.

And to be honest, the current 'Hood/Ghetto/Trap/Ratchet/Hot Girl culture that has been cultivated for the past 30 years, does not take the arts seriously in comparison to previous generations of black folks that did.

We only have to go back to the impact of the Negro Ensemble Company, which developed some of the finest actors of the past sixty years, of any color or ethnicity.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

She should play Dionne Warwick

 

[Goat poster]

So you think all our actors just some nikkas they pulled off a street corner, dusted them off and threw them in a couple movies, huh?

Didn’t say that at all.

I myself went to a very good arts high school for drama and studied at a Theatre conservatory for college.

I said “BY AND LARGE” meaning on average. The culture there values the ART more and trains students seriously at a much younger age.

Most actors there won’t be taken seriously for TV/film roles unless they have cut their teeth in the theatre( and they have the best theatre schools).

whereas here so many people just up and move to Hollywood because they “want to be famous or a star” and many get casted off looks and not acting ability.

I’m not saying we don’t have qualified actors here but CULTURE is important.

you can take any field/craft and see the same thing IE :

the countries with the best soccer academies and infrastructure produce some of the best soccer players and World Cup teams.

The countries that take science/tech/ STEM most seriously produce the most viable Candidates in those fields ratio wise.

acting isn’t any different.

 

[tuckgod]

Most actors there won’t be taken seriously for TV/film roles unless they have cut their teeth in the theatre( and they have the best theatre schools).

whereas here so many people just up and move to Hollywood because they “want to be famous or a star” and many get casted off looks and not acting ability.

Ok I see your point here.

 

[El Bombi]

So you think all our actors just some nikkas they pulled off a street corner, dusted them off and threw them in a couple movies, huh?

The forum is full of

 

[El Bombi]

Ok I see your point here.

Breh there are plenty of black American actors in theater.

These idiots exposes themselves by using stereotypes.

 

[tuckgod]

The forum is full of

I see where he’s going with it.

There’s some truth to what he’s saying about their actors being trained in the British theater which is like the NBA for acting, but at the same time, people don’t know that our great actors came up in the theatre too.

 

[tuckgod]

Breh there are plenty of black American actors in theater.

These idiots exposes themselves by using stereotypes.

I just replied to your last post

 

[El Bombi]

I see where he’s going with it.

There’s some truth to what he’s saying about their actors being trained in the British theater which is like the NBA for acting, but at the same time, people don’t know that our great actors came up in the theatre too.

Naw, there are still a lot of young American Black actors in NYC theaters and colleges.

He act as if majority of American Black people are just randomly packing up their bags and going to Hollywood on a dream. And this is farther from the truth.

These idiots use no fact and only stereotypes.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

I see where he’s going with it.

There’s some truth to what he’s saying about their actors being trained in the British theater which is like the NBA for acting, but at the same time, people don’t know that our great actors came up in the theatre too.

Just like we used to have at least twenty-five Earth, Wind and Fire/Commodores/Isley Brothers-like bands in every one of our towns, we used to have a very robust black theater culture that came out of high schools and local, repertory acting groups.

In NYC, we had everything from the NEC, to Vy Higgensen's productions ("Ma Ma I Want To Sing"), to the Ujamaa Black Theater.

The IG/OnlyFans crowd has not demonstrated that it is as interested in studying the fine arts as we saw in black communities prior to the dawn of the gangs/drug dealer/stripper support culture so many trumpet these days.

If you are of are certain "vintage," you can recall the Titus Walker tv commercials that would run during Gil Noble's "Like It Is" on Sundays.

 

[Easy-E]

Doesn't change the fact black British actors are classically trained in institutions that produce the best actors.

 

[CHICAGO]

LMAO

ITS A RUNNING JOKE AT THIS POINT

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