Larenz Tate: "Hollywood Finds More Value In Black British Actors; Theres a Decline In Black American Actors Getting Work!"

[Buddy]

I can't stand this fukk shyt In the wake of Mike Brown/Ferguson, people were talking building and supporting our OWN businesses and platforms... fast forward and folks are asking why Hollywood won't hire them and when people DO get roles people don't care.



They'll skip over Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey to complain about Daniel Kaluuya in Judas And The Black Messiah. Skip over Isiah Washington DIRECTING PRODUCING AND STARRING in a film on Bass Reeves to cry that the hand model in the latest Aveeno commercial is "non FBA", etc. The shyt reeks of WEAKNESS. Larenz gets a pass but any non-acting, Internet Ass Muhfukkas...

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

British actors (black and white) typically have more experience and better training than American actors. Don’t know if it’s true, but It was pointed out in an article that we overvalue superficial things like looks at the expense of skills in the U.S.

We need to bring back the arts in school and community theaters where actors can receive training and experience.

Doesn’t make them stars or box office draws, or better actors for that matter. Outside of Idris and Damson, most black British actors come across generic when playing American blacks.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Doesn’t make them stars or box office draws, or better actors for that matter. Outside of Idris and Damson, most black British actors come across generic when playing American blacks.

Box office stars are obsolete now

 

[UncleTomFord15]

America has been losing their actors for a good 10 years now. It's mostly due to the fact Europeans are willing to accept less for a chance to gain shine in Hollywood generally speaking.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I can't stand this fukk shyt In the wake of Mike Brown/Ferguson, people were talking building and supporting our OWN businesses and platforms... fast forward and folks are asking why Hollywood won't hire them and when people DO get roles people don't care.



They'll skip over Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey to complain about Daniel Kaluuya in Judas And The Black Messiah. Skip over Isiah Washington DIRECTING PRODUCING AND STARRING in a film on Bass Reeves to cry that the hand model in the latest Aveeno commercial is "non FBA", etc. The shyt reeks of WEAKNESS. Larenz gets a pass but any non-acting, Internet Ass Muhfukkas...

Who can compete with Hollywood? And collectively we don’t check for films like Corsicana, which is a good flick.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

British actors (black and white) typically have more experience and better training than American actors. Don’t know if it’s true, but It was pointed out in an article that we overvalue superficial things like looks at the expense of skills in the U.S.

We need to bring back the arts in school and community theaters where actors can receive training and experience.

Don't care
Certain shyt like Wesley Snipes in Nino Brown, and the whole Friday franchise, could only come with American actors

 

[Piff Perkins]

The real problem is that British actors are classically trained at the top acting schools in the world, and the modern young American actors aren't. Spider-Man, arguably the quintessential American superhero, is played by a British dude. Batman, another quintessential American character, is also played by a British dude.

Brehs can complain and make it a race issue when the reality is these British actors are walking into auditions and blowing Americans out the water. Flip side you know of an African American actor who was classically trained in the US, is great, and has had massive success? Yup...Jonathan Majors lol. That's the path more black Americans need to take, versus the current lane of untrained or half trained brehs getting TV jobs because they're handsome and fading out after a few years.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Hollywood gassed over British actors regardless of race.

That's why there are so many horrible movie and series with British mafukkas with terrible ass fake American accents.

 

[I Really Mean It]

one key function of the media is to instill in your mind what is valued and what, by its omission, isn’t. the less black american actors you see onscreen, the less value you place on black american men in real life.

some may think, “well, if that british black actor is portraying a black american, wouldn’t it follow that audiences will assume who they’re watching watching is a black american?”

not necessarily. many viewers will look up the cast and seek out the name and background of the person who depicted that black american, and the more the viewing public sees that black british men are filling most of these roles, the lower the value of black american men will go in their subconsciousness.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Box office stars are obsolete now

Yeah, for the most part, but box office franchises aren’t.

 

[Buddy]

Who can compete with Hollywood? And collectively we don’t check for films like Corsicana, which is a good flick.

Nollywood, Bollywood, etc are doing just fine. Folks dumping plenty of content on Tubi, there's KweliTV, etc. Hell Tyler Perry has built an empire. We lose sight when we turn something about having our own into how we'll compete.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Brehs can complain and make it a race issue when the reality is these British actors are walking into auditions and blowing Americans out the water

Based off what? How do you know this to be true?

 

[Mindfield333]

He right. Why is Daniel Ezra playing Spencer James. A black American actor could’ve done that.


Yeah his accent is good but why not have a black American, play a Black American high school football star? Weird man smh

He put on an accent the entire time. No one knew he was British until later. In his situation his acting put him over the top

 

[Low End Derrick]

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Says he doesn't see it as a competition and that he's happy that Black actors in general are getting work

* feels like Hollywood thinks there's more value in Black British actors bc they have an audience abroad so they translate internationally and there's a hoax that Black American actors are not as marketable

*Hollywood is in love with the UK and all things British so there's a decline in BA actors.

* He says it's all love and they're killing it

Doubt it.

The UK barely knew who Idris Elba was before The Wire.

 

[The Fade]

1.Black American actors AND Musicians go to Julliard, Perfoming Arts schools and Conservatories too. Thats how some musicians are also good actors and can "perform" their roles in these news cycles. Miles Davis was also too good for Julliard, he fell asleep in class because he was getting real experience performing with Dizzy and Charlie Parker. So good that Duke Ellington sought him out before he was 20

2. I thought American nikkas are bad workers. Some y’all agree in that other thread. So don’t be mad. It’s Black directors with the same mindset as some of y’all. This is what you wanted.

3. Out sourced and undercut. Like in everything else we fukking do

4.they coming here because there’s a lower glass ceiling over there