Why cant black american actors do accents?

[Kaypain]

You know what fukk all you nikkas and this thread

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

When has Halle tried to pull the Tiger Woods? I remember when she broke up with that whiteboy she made a big deal about saying that her child is BLACK...Are you a CaC?

lmao at her blonde hair child being black are you serious?

halle is a half-cac, half white half black

not black, not white, but half-cac

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

This thread is a load of bullshyt ....

James Earl Jones, Eddie Murphy and Arseno Hall in Coming To America

Idris Elba in the Wire and Mandela

Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanada

Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend in the Mighty Quinn

Damon Wayans in Mo Money

Kel Mitchell in Good Burger

Naomi Harris in Street Kings

Angela Bassett in Notorious and American Horror Story

Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Grove Back

DMX in Belly




.....I could keep going, but OP needs to expand his knowledge of acting and theater.

hahaha u including BLACK ENGLISH people when im talking about BLACK AMERICANS?

none of those people you listed played a good foreign accent other than don, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO AFRICA? EDDIE MURPHY SOUNDED NOTHING LIKE ANYONE IN OR FROM AFRICA

 

[beenz]

Denzel Washington... In Cry Freedom, he had a South African accent. The Mighty Quinn a carribean accent. For Queen and Country a British cockney accent.

Forrest Whitaker had one a British accent in Crying Game.

Laurence Fishburn in Othello

I'm sure there's plenty more... but most Hollywood roles don't require black actors to use accents.

forrest whitaker also played idi amin.

 

[VladTheImpaler]

it seems as if anytime a black actor is needed for hollywood with an accent they have to look towards english black actors i.e idris for mandela. why is it black american actors limit themselves so much?

your people can't do German accents well.

 

[Drew Wonder]

This thread is a load of bullshyt ....

James Earl Jones, Eddie Murphy and Arseno Hall in Coming To America

Idris Elba in the Wire and Mandela

Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanada

Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend in the Mighty Quinn

Damon Wayans in Mo Money

Kel Mitchell in Good Burger

Naomi Harris in Street Kings

Angela Bassett in Notorious and American Horror Story

Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Grove Back

DMX in Belly




.....I could keep going, but OP needs to expand his knowledge of acting and theater.

The bolded are British. And lol at DMX in Belly

 

[Drew Wonder]

Jeffrey Wright in Shaft


for the longest time I swore dude was Dominican

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Jeffrey Wright in Shaft


for the longest time I swore dude was Dominican

doing an accent you hear everyday in new York is nothing, plus dude aint even black smh

 

[VladTheImpaler]

doing an accent you hear everyday in new York is nothing, plus dude aint even black smh

you people sound awful doing Flemish accents too. Terrible!

 

[Bigbigguy]

Dude said Eddie Murphy

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Dude said Eddie Murphy

im sayin lol

 

[Crucial]

British accents sound p*ssy. That's why.

This thread is a load of bullshyt ....

James Earl Jones, Eddie Murphy and Arseno Hall in Coming To America

Idris Elba in the Wire and Mandela

Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanada

Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend in the Mighty Quinn

Damon Wayans in Mo Money

Kel Mitchell in Good Burger

Naomi Harris in Street Kings

Angela Bassett in Notorious and American Horror Story

Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Grove Back

DMX in Belly




.....I could keep going, but OP needs to expand his knowledge of acting and theater.

Like the brehs said before me, the Americans u listed did terrible jobs, especially the ones doing island accents. In comparison, Elba did an excellent job doing the reverse.

As a matter of fact, as an island man, the only person i can think of off the top of my head who gets a pass at the Jamaican accent was Precious in that Tower Heist, but she prob

could be from there.

 

[TRIPLE M]

halle berry isn't blk

wat accent freeman done?

none of them have done a foreign accent well other thn don

So you can act freeman did pull an accent for Robin Hood prince if thieves and invictus

And Halle is half...and she did cloud atlas

 

[Roman Brady]

An Aussie doing a stereotypical "Black American" accent

he wasnt an aussie when he was in that stereotypical black american character

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

he wasnt an aussie when he was in that stereotypical black american character

What are you talking about? He played an Austrailian actor playing a black American character.