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"
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I do want people to notice how certain posters vanished from this thread after I replied to them
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For the record, I have no problem with and I can rock with him prioritizing Jamaicans for a movie about Jamaicans. But him getting his knickers in a bunch and other black immigrants trying to paint BA’s as the boogeymen for wanting the same is some hoe ass parasite behavior.
Exactly - but folk in this thread are talking like any random Black guy from Hollywood somehow has the genetics to do a particular regional accent better than any British actor can, or has deeper authentic knowledge of some particular history even though he's just been working as an actor his entire life..
Literally no one was calling out Idris's accent as Stringer Bell or saying he was inauthentic, so the entire claim is disingenuous.
Their good at faking a NE or flat American accent. Other then that it comes off as contrived like that old black man in Walking Dead trying to do a black Southern accent
Shhh don't tell em let them keep thinking every black person in the south talks the same...
I can tell if someone is from Florida and what specific part of Florida they're from just off of slight differences in pronocuations and accent but let them tell it there are 4 American accent and they are masters at all of em.
And before any of you tell me Idris does a good American accent he does one thats it. my boy Stringer Bell was in Baltimore sounding like he just got off the train from Greenpoint,Brooklyn
Typical
He lives in the UK. But even then the yardie cultures is HEAVY not only in London but also New York, Toronto, and some parts of CT
The nikka that played haze in topboy isn’t even Jamaican he’s Nigerian
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Since this was ignored in the other thread let me gone ahead and leave this in here as well…
m.economictimes.com
Nigeria becomes first country to ban foreign models in TV ads
The measure will take effect from October. It is expected to boost the prospects of locals in the advertising industry which has a large chunk of white models and British accents.
