This Compton girl grew up to be one of the greatest champions and competitors in the history of sport, she bought a home in France and learned French, which she speaks in her interviews at the French Open at Roland Garros. The French fans adore her for this. She is interested and involved in fashion and art. She dates…
Serena’s easily the greatest female athlete of all time.
Days before the 2015 US Open tournament where a win would place Serena Williams at a tie for most Grand Slam wins by…
That was the most bizarre. I’m not from the US and have lived in different countries/continents and we’ve all be listening to Nina Simone for decades. She’s world super famous.
The idea that nobody knew who she was until she made a movie is preposterous!
Ugh! It has nothing to do with Zoe not being black enough!
Saldana is in two major franchises right now - Star Trek and Guardians of the Galaxy - and if she isn’t the most famous or talented female actor of color right now (I’m not saying she is or isn’t), then she’s surely got some pull based on the $1.5 billion those three movies have already made.
Saldana should have said: “This script disrespects the legacy of Nina Simone, an important black female icon. I don’t want to be a part of tearing down what she worked so hard to build up. I’ll pass.” Just like everyone else who passed on the crap script.
No one wanted to do it because it was a crap script that disrespected Nina Simone, attached to a director who didn’t get what Nina Simone was about.
If Zoe was replaced in either of those movies by another actress, how much would the box office have suffered? I’m going with zero. Nobody is checking for Zoe in a movie other than her family.
Fuck Zoe Saldana. She’s full of shit. She mentions the fake nose and tries to lay the blame on other people having a problem, not her and the people who cast her in this embarrassment, of course. So if you complain that a woman with features nothing like Nina has to be painted and molded to play her, YOU are the one…
Why, Zoe has no box office appeal. The Nina fanfiction movie she was in made about $12.00.
This wasn’t ever about questioning her blackness. And she knows that. This was about centuries long issues. This was about it being 2015, and once again women who look like Nina Simone being told that they weren’t good enough. Again. Then when the pictures came out we saw horrendous make up. It wasn’t the feature of a…
Exactly, the ego on this one is strong. Thanks Zoe for making the California Raisin Nina Simone non-fact based movie.
Halle Berry famously demurred when Aretha Franklin suggested her to play the Queen of Soul in a possible bio-pic. Berry, who’s had problems finding decent roles, was smart enough to know that it would have been ridiculous miscasting. And Berry had won an Oscar by then. Nope, Zoe, nope.
Maybe you should go back and read the gajillion articles/comments we had about this situation on this website. The problem was never that she is not “black enough”, the issue is more nuanced than that. But people who think all black people are the same will never understand. Black people are a diaspora, and even with…
That’s not my point, she insinuated that there was no one else stepping up to do it so if she had ideas or thoughts about who else would be good for the roll why not speak up instead of pretending like she was doing everyone a service by “making it happen”
Could Zoe not have made any recommendations? I don’t believe that no one would have done it had she not “stepped up”.