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I'm not sure if this had been posted already; I tried to search, didn't find anything.
From the comments I've read online thus far, people are pretty pissed over it. Understandably, though. I can also understand it'll do better in the box office, opposed to an actress who resembled Nina.
Her features contradict Nina's, so it'll more than likely be harder for most to actually believe Zoe's portrayal in the film.
Update:
Rest of the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/movies/should-zoe-saldana-play-nina-simone-some-say-no.html
From the comments I've read online thus far, people are pretty pissed over it. Understandably, though. I can also understand it'll do better in the box office, opposed to an actress who resembled Nina.
Her features contradict Nina's, so it'll more than likely be harder for most to actually believe Zoe's portrayal in the film.
Update:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...imone-dons-signature-head-wraps-new-film.html
Damn, I don't know how to feel about it now after seeing these pics.
Stir Builds Over Actress to Portray Nina Simone
By TANZINA VEGA
Published: September 12, 2012
In the digital age Hollywood casting decisions leaked from behind closed doors can instantly become fodder for public debate. And when the decision involves race and celebrity, the debate can get very heated.
The online media world has been abuzz with criticism for nearly a month now over the news — first reported by The Hollywood Reporter — that the actress Zoe Saldana would be cast as the singer Nina Simone in the forthcoming film “Nina” based on her life.
Few have attacked Ms. Saldana for her virtues as an actress. Instead, much of the reaction has focused on whether Ms. Saldana was cast because she, unlike Simone, is light skinned and therefore a more palatable choice for the Hollywood film than a darker skinned actress.
“Hollywood and the media have a tendency to whitewash and lightwash a lot of stories, particularly when black actresses are concerned,” said Tiffani Jones, the founder of the blog Coffee Rhetoric. Ms. Jones wrote a blog post titled “(Mis)Casting Call: The Erasure of Nina Simone’s Image.”
“When is it going to be O.K. to not be the delicate looking ideal of what the media considers blackness to be?” Ms. Jones said in an interview.
Ms. Jones’s post linked to an online petition at the Web site Change.org that calls for Cynthia Mort, the writer and director of the film, and Jimmy Iovine, executive producer, to “replace Zoe Saldana with an actress who actually looks like Nina Simone.” The petition had gathered more than 2,100 supporters as of Wednesday morning. A representative for Ms. Saldana said the actress was not available for comment.
Controversies over casting are now common, with a result that choices for popular films like “The Hunger Games” become events in themselves. (Some viewers took to Twitter to express their anger over the casting of black actors in the roles of Rue, Cinna and Thresh.) But the proposed choice of Ms. Saldana to play Simone has reignited the conversation of colorism — Alice Walker’s term for discrimination based on gradations of skin color.
Rest of the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/movies/should-zoe-saldana-play-nina-simone-some-say-no.html
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