So this girl Zendaya Coleman is playing Aaliyah in her Biopic....Seriously

[Broad Street Bully]

Ofc this is what this shyt turned into

 

[Tae]

Aaliyah's my heart, and I even I don't feel she warrants a biopic

...and this is the best they could pick to emulate babygirl

I agree. The most interesting part of her life (the R Kelly saga) will probably be glanced over. And the chick looks nothing like her.

Sabi is a better fit

Who is this girl, I never heard of her?

 

[Box Cutta]

Can black people do movies besides biopic moves of black celebrities and slave movies.

i mean got damn we so fukking limited in movies and the stories that are told

Agreed, I'm so sick of the same shyt.

 

[Rack4K]

Aaliyah doesn't look much more black than Zendaya so this thread has been a confusing read.

And Denzel was way darker than the real Malcolm X. Who cares.

 

[Sunalmighty]

Damn Aaliyah really in her grave smh.

 

[Poitier]

Aaliyah doesn't look much more black than Zendaya

Explain to me what "looks Black" means?

 

[Rack4K]

Explain to me what "looks Black" means?

I frankly don't care to. The point is, regardless of how you or me define it, they don't look that much racially different from each other.

 

[Lewis Black]

Now we got mexicans playing aaliyah lol

Imagine a puerto rican john wayne

 

[Black]

Now we got mexicans playing aaliyah lol

Imagine a puerto rican john wayne

She isn't hispanic

 

[jwinfield]

Sabi is a better fit

Her mother's Salvadorian though, apparently that means she can't be cast

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Poitier]

I frankly don't care to. The point is, regardless of how you or me define it, they don't look that much racially different from each other.

You need your eyes fixed.

 

[Rack4K]

You need your eyes fixed.

When you can show me this imaginary (subjective) line where Zendaya's blackness ends and Aaliyah's begin, I'll fix my eyes.

 

[Poitier]

When you can show me this imaginary (subjective) line where Zendaya's blackness ends and Aaliyah's begin, I'll fix my eyes.

"Blackness" is not based on phenotype and even still Zendaya's face is outside of that subjective line. When you show me that Zendaya's half Cacness didn't allow her connections and economic stability afforded to most Blacks with 2 Black parents, then I'll stop asking you.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

She isn't Black nor does she look like Aaliyah.

Oh yes please Coli militant tell me the required amount of black a person must have in order for you to consider them black?