Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone

[Taadow]

I'll never understand why folks get carried away with an actor needing to look like the person they're portraying in a biopic. The quality of the acting is far more important.

Is Zoe Saldana tha bomb actress like that?

Sheeit, they could've just got Meryl Streep to play this because you know she'll kill it...

 

[The Message]

Ya'll this is deep on so many levels. Zoe, who I like, is Hollywood's new "acceptable, safe negro broad". She's black, but....she's not THAT black where she'll make them uncomfortable. I cant really fukk with this. She's damn near in blackface on this....lol

 

[luckyse7enz]

I keep seeing outrage over this.

:yikesvince:

Not a good look...but will anyone in this thread offer alternatives to Zoe? Actresses with darker complexions that would draw people to the box offices?

I ask out of genuine curiosity.

 

[The Message]

@luckyse7enz

Viola Davis has the talent to do it and has been in a enough noteworthy flicks.

 

[Wild self]

This is what happens when you remove all the young quality black actresses under 40. You get this brown skinned chick wearing blackface.

 

[Taadow]

I keep seeing outrage over this.

:yikesvince:

Not a good look...but will anyone in this thread offer alternatives to Zoe? Actresses with darker complexions that would draw people to the box offices?

I ask out of genuine curiosity.

Nina Simone is a notable enough figure to where people will be drawn to the theatre anyway. This could've been the chance for an unknown actress to get some notoriety (see "Selena"; Jennifer Lopez).

 

[jadillac]

y'all act like they dont always use one of us for everything.

Oh we need a lighter skinned black guy...Will Smith
Oh we need a medium skinned black guy....Denzel
Oh we need a funnny black guy....JAmie Foxx
Need a woman....used to be Halle....now it's Zoe

 

[GreatestLaker]

I don't get the hate that she is getting. People are upset that she isn't dark enough? Get a grip.

 

[luckyse7enz]

@luckyse7enz

Viola Davis has the talent to do it and has been in a enough noteworthy flicks.

I just knew Viola Davis would be the go-to name. Are they trying to depict Nina going from young to old in this film or no? Viola Davis is in her upper 40's.

 

[Auger]

If only MJB could act, this was
The role that could have defined her career, and given the subject matter(Nina Simone) I think
MJB could have pulled it off.

 

[Seea]

I don't get the hate that she is getting. People are upset that she isn't dark enough? Get a grip.

Nina wanted Whoopi Goldberg to portray her. So that should give you some idea of how she wanted to be seen in a movie about her.

 

[mastermind]

I'll never understand why folks get carried away with an actor needing to look like the person they're portraying in a biopic. The quality of the acting is far more important.

because people are stupid

@luckyse7enz

Viola Davis has the talent to do it and has been in a enough noteworthy flicks.

aint no one seeing a movie starring Viola Davis, and she the movie focuses on Nina Simone's younger life


Black people discovered Viola Davis last year and now consider her the goto black actress.

 

[GreatestLaker]

Nina wanted Whoopi Goldberg to portray her. So that should give you some idea of how she wanted to be seen in a movie about her.

What happened to all that "black is black" talk? You people are hypocrites.

 

[Seea]

What happened to all that "black is black" talk? You people are hypocrites.

Who the fukk is "you people"?

Black is Black? You read that anywhere in my previous post?

 

[GreatestLaker]

Who the fukk is "you people"?

Black is Black? You read that anywhere in my previous post?

You as in plural. Not you directly.