Zoe Saldana Getting Clowned For Trying To Play Nina Simone

[Yehuda]

Lol @ all these terms. OK so my children are sacatras, if they have children with full Black people, what would their children be?

 

[Birnin Zana]

How about the fact that Nina's dark skin, broad nose and nappy hair played a significant role in her life and music. This is not like J-Lo and Selena, Denzel and Malcolm X, Laurence Fishbourne and Ike Turner, Angela Bassett and Tina Turner. All the previously mentioned were criticised when casted but their acting is what gave them props.

Nina's nose, skin and hair were things she fought to display as beautiful and to use prostetics is an insult, making Zoe into a minstrel clown is disgusting. There are plenty of beautiful, dark skin, broad nosed, kinky haired women with talent. Nina's family didnt even sign off on this mess. It's Lifetime status, i.e. .

Word.

There's a reason why Zoe's face had to be darkened via makeup and she had to wear a prostetic nose for this role: its because those specific traits are a defining part of Nina herself and of her music. Can't really say that for the other biopics.

Hence why its bizarre that they picked Zoe's role. She doesn't look the part at all, and its not as if she's a GOAT-level actress either. Complete miscast.

 

[Poitier]

Indie Arie is an actress now

And didnt Nina marry a white man? This could be karma

People looking to be outraged at anything. She was miscast but nothing to warrant the amount of attention it got. A bedwench whose movie no one would have saw otherwise isn't worth the outrage I'm seeing when you have Black people winning the election for people like Hilary Clinton without so much a whimper.

 

[Rarebird77]

People looking to be outraged at anything. She was miscast but nothing to warrant the amount of attention it got. A bedwench whose movie no one would have saw otherwise isn't worth the outrage I'm seeing when you have Black people winning the election for people like Hilary Clinton without so much a whimper.

Nope.

Hollywood is always white washing black women.

There's a right to be outraged.

You simply don't care. That's a separate thing from legitimate criticism of an industry which retells stories about black people incorrectly. This time it's a Black man doing it go figure. .

And the fact black people are winning the election for Hillary is telling. Look at all the love white women get on this blog. Look at you telling us not to care so much that a dark woman was played by someone light skinned. .. no wonder really.

 

[Rarebird77]

Indie Arie is an actress now

And didnt Nina marry a white man? This could be karma

Was Jennifer Hudson an actress when she played in "Dreamgirls'?

Was Whitney Houston an actress when she played in "The Bodyguard"?

I'm sure she married the white guy so her kids would be considered more conventionally attractive and not have to go through what she did.

Look a woman who looks like her today can't even play her in a movie but a lightskinned one who looks more like her daughter can. ..

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

There testing the waters look at when beyonce puts her fist IN the air the whole cac races went hysterical.

We can't take this lightly

 

[Canon]

2 bedwenches

 

[King Poetic]

Let Jennifer Hudson do the role

 

[Rarebird77]

Just to be clear...

Mulatto is a term originally used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or to persons of two mulatto parents

On the coli they've transformed the word to mean any person mixed with white which is most black people. . but whatever.

 

[Poitier]

Hollywood is always white washing black women.

Favoring one type of Blackness isn't White washing which would be having Jennifer Lawrence as Nina. Nina isn't the standard for Blackness.

a dark woman was played by someone light skinned. .. no wonder really.

You don't even know what light skin is

You simply don't care.

And yall don't care 99% of the time Hollywood miscast.

 

[Will Ross]

Nope.

Hollywood is always white washing black women.

There's a right to be outraged.

You simply don't care. That's a separate thing from legitimate criticism of an industry which retells stories about black people incorrectly. This time it's a Black man doing it go figure. .

And the fact black people are winning the election for Hillary is telling. Look at all the love white women get on this blog. Look at you telling us not to care so much that a dark woman was played by someone light skinned. .. no wonder really.

Zoe most likely was the best actress to audition for the role. People keep naming names of people they don't even support when they put out a project.

 

[El Bombi]

Hollywood went to another level with this shyt.

Put blackface on someone that is already darkskin.

Those CAC in Hollywood always find a new way of fukkery.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

I think people are saying Zoe isn't black simply because her parents are from PR/DR..... as if those slave ships didn't making stops there too

We're saying she isn't black because he has repeatedly disavowed her blackness. Stop being a naive c00n to defend your fellow c00nette.


fukk this Dominic00n bytch and anyone that defends her.

 

[chosenaledge13]

Viola Davis should been the only choice, the emotional battle she showed in this scene kills Zoe's whole career. This is ridiculous...

 

[Rarebird77]

Zoe most likely was the best actress to audition for the role. People keep naming names of people they don't even support when they put out a project.

Lol, how do you know people don't support these people???

Who da hell supports Zoe? The black community? Are you serious?