Hopefully her wound will be covered with Liberal Tears brand gauze.

Hiring dark skinned women doesn’t happen enough already. That’s the colourism issue at the heart of this. It’s discrimination by preferencing white-public palatable, light skinned actresses rather than hiring dark skinned women to represent themselves – dark sinned women who already have much, much fewer opportunities…

When there a tons of dark-skinned actresses who are much more talented than Saldana, it makes you wonder why they picked someone who looks nothing like Nina to portray her. And the makeup looks like shit.

The looks thing is an issue because Zoe Saldana looks NOTHING like Nina Simone, and SO MUCH of Nina Simone’s work was specifically about her experience as a dark-skinned and not conventionally beautiful black woman. So in this Hollywood version, hiring a Hollywood-beautiful, lighter skinned black actress is a problem,…

That makeup job is so bad, you’d think it was done by Donald Trump’s website.

I had this question in the other post on this: would the people who say this situation is acceptable be just as happy if Saldana was hired to play Audrey Hepburn even though she resembles Hepburn far more than Simone?

Why you want to make me choke from laughing when I haven’t done anything to you

For real, you can see the edges of the fake nose.

I’m about 80% sure that they used Fashion Fair dead stock from 1989 and that everyone on set was nearsighted, but in denial.

Not that it would be OK no matter what but why is the makeup and nose so bad? What is the budget on this thing?

“The mo$t important thing i$ that cr€ativity or quality of p€rformance $hould never be judged on the ba$i$ of color, or €thnicity, or physical likene$$,” said the objective distributor without a hint of cynicism.

If, as Johnson says, we shouldn’t judge a performance on physical likeness, then why couldn’t Saldana have embodied Nina Simone without the cartoonish makeup?

Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia (his first American film)! Bam, classic example.

I think it’s more about the fact that choosing to focus on Apollo’s son is a choice to focus on black characters within the story, unlike say the last one, where it was about Rocky’s son. There were plenty of options for a Rocky sequel that could have been all white, and those wouldn’t be bad stories to tell, but it’s…

While I’m shocked that a movie about Egypt has an all white cast, I’m also shocked that Gerald Butler is still getting work.

I need the number to her loctician.

Because then your mini bigot might be excluded instead of Jazz.

When is Obama gonna wake up and do something about the spread of Christian Sharia in this country? We are under constant attack from these radicals trying to destroy our way of life and he’s busy making out with the Gays and giving healthcare to the poor. We need to man up and send ground troops into Wisconsin,…