Review Samuel L. Jackson

[Carol]

The excellent Mr Jackson has had a very busy week! Firstly, magnificently, he lump-hammers the twit-hound Ben Carson's deranged equivalence of African slaves with opportunist "immigrants", but then follows through with a less-considered outcry against British actors Hollywood casts as African-American characters.
Overnight he recovers from temporary foot-in-mouth disease enough to retract from blaming British actors for accepting roles as cast to blaming casting agents... question remains, isn't it always about the right actor for the part?

 

[Hux]

Lenny James - Walking Dead.
David Hardwood - Homeland, Supergirl.
Idris Elba - The Wire.
Eamonn Walker - Oz, Chicago Fire.
David Oyelowo - Selma.
Chiwetel Ejiofor - everything.
John Boyega- Star Wars

He might have a point.

 

[Carol]

Hi Hux,

Good list - not sure whether it was Idris Elba or David Harewood who commented in an interview a while back that his move to America for work was prompted by the greater quantity and variety of American roles for black actors (plus the sheer promise of becoming a Hollywood star, maybe). Market forces +American dream.... I think Jackson's rant came off badly as it was put in terms of the Brits being the wrong sort of black and taking jobs from more deserving African Americans - if the Brits really were less capable of understanding the parts they were up for why did they keep acing the auditions and getting cast? Don't think any white American actor has complained about the unfairness of white Brits competing for work - it's part and parcel of being an actor, anywhere, any colour. I just think he's been A list for so long he's out of touch with the cattle call nature of casting for the majority of actors looking for their break.
At least he backed off a bit the next day.

 

[Doctor Omega]