There are people you put in over-and-over again in supporting roles, because they always make bank and can churn out a decent performance. And there are headliners, whose name only will make the movie bank, regardless of anything else going on with the film. Those are your headliners. Zoe is a supporting role. Her…

Bottom line. No matter who gets featured in the movie advertising if no one goes to see the movie for your sake, you’re not an A-lister. People were going to see their franchise.Those movies could be entirely recast every time and get the same box office.

just kidding .... I know which.

Emmy-, SAG- award-winning Uzo Aduba. Pretty simple.

Don’t blame me, blame the film business. As I said, she may have been in big movies, that doesn’t make her a big movie star . And her saying that SHE made Nina Simone famous is blasphemy.

She was in big movies - but not one of the big stars. Her name would have no clout with financiers.

Riiiight. Star Trek and Avatar and GotG - they only made money because of Zoe Saldana and her huge fanbase which demands her presence in films.

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.

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…

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…

She’s not that big of a name. She has never carried a movie before.

Something that doesn’t get mentioned in all this, that I think is more implausible than the makeup and the fake nose, is that we were supposed to believe that Saldana, in her thirties, is playing a woman during a period in her life when she was in her mid sixties. It MIGHT (and that is a big MIGHT) have worked if…

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”