Idris Elba on specifically ONLY casting Jamaican actors for HIS MOVIE Yardie - "I wanted it to be authentic. I didn't want it to be inauthentic"

[Jazzy B.]

(video is timestamped)



A lot of y'all are now looking VERY DUMB in that other thread


Credit goes to @Voice of Reason

 

[Voice of Reason]

Its crazy

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

His movie and his executive decision

this is far different than crying about a role someone took in a movie you have no control in. he's making the job and defining it.


EDIT
@CHICAGO I'm still in this bytch. Catch more feelings

Oh the acronym brehs are mad. Locking threads and sending warnings.



Hurt feelings isn't a listed reason for infractions but you know how it goes.

 

[Killer Instinct]

The roles just went to the best actors available, right? Every other group realizes the game being played except AA's. Best believe they'll be on code in this thread, also.

 

[The Plug]

Most people can't fake a good Jamaican accent, however, they're really good at faking an American accent.

 

[DamienWayne]

This nikka trolling at this point

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Most people can't fake a good Jamaican accent, however, they're really good at faking an American accent.

what's understood doesn't need to be stated.

let them catch feelings

them boys prolly thought cool runnings felt authentic

 

[BlackMajik]

All that juelzing in that other thread

 

[BlackMajik]

Most people can't fake a good Jamaican accent, however, they're really good at faking an American accent.

 

[MaxPain]

Diaspora wars…

 

[The Plug]

It's true, that's why Hollywood hires all those British actors to play Americans. They even go to school learning to do American accents.

 

[Sterling Archer]

And so he can be as offended as be wants to be when he gets pressed by people wanting authentic black people playing American roles/stories. This is why I couldn’t care less what anybody says or feels offended by. Everybody justifies everything that is an advantage to them.

 

[BlackMajik]

It's true, that's why Hollywood hires all those British actors to play Americans. They even go to school learning to do American accents.

 

[DLo]

IN before the mods bush this and the other thread

 

[Maquina]

Most people can't fake a good Jamaican accent, however, they're really good at faking an American accent.

Not the accent but also the culture and swag - the movements . You can find a white that can do an Indian accent but would be difficult to really embody all the characteristics of an Indian person