From THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN:
Shut up, Idris Elba, racism has driven your career in the US
The upcoming Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance Somebody” stars BAFTA-winning actor Naomi Ackie as the legendary singer, which means the debate over Black British actors taking roles away from American actors is bound to resurface. The debate surged in 2017 after Samuel L. Jackson called out Daniel Kaluuya’s casting in “Get Out,” for which the actor earned an Oscar nomination.
“I tend to wonder what that movie would have been with an American brother who really feels that,” Jackson said.
In a new interview on “The Shop” (via The Root), Idris Elba railed against the claim that Black British actors take roles away from American actors. Naomi Ackie’s role in “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” served as a launching pad for the discussion. Talk show host Maverick Carter asked Elba about Ackie’s casting, noting that Black American women might criticize a Black British actor playing an American icon.
I'm really sick of Idris Elba. He's not a star. He's been given multiple chances and failed everytime -- twice in the last few weeks alone. See Stan's "Weekend box office" for more on that. If he's British, he's British. There's nothing wrong with that. But get your Black ass out of American films playing Americans -- especially real life ones. It is racist and you're offensive. Ava and C.I. have addressed this repeatedly at THIRD and been very clear on this issue.
American studios are casting British Blacks because American studios are racists. They think MLK and then think that 'lower' US Blacks can't play the roles so they case British. It's offensive.
Idris was offeed many chances to become a star in America and he failed repeatedly. He's Clifton Davis, someone who is known but can't sell tickets. Idris turns 50 in three days. He's not a movie star and he's now too old to become one. He had two flop films in the last three weeks.
Here's how CRAPAPEDIA lies for him:
In 2007, Elba signed on as the lead role of the film Daddy's Little Girls, playing Monty, a blue-collar mechanic who falls in love with an attorney helping him gain custody of his kids, and finds the relationship and his custody hopes threatened by the return of his former wife. He appeared in 28 Weeks Later (2007) and This Christmas (2007), which brought in nearly $50 million at the box office in 2007.[28][29] In 2008, he starred in the horror film Prom Night and the Guy Ritchie London gangster film RocknRolla.[28] In 2009, he starred in the horror film The Unborn and in Obsessed, a thriller that had him cast opposite Beyoncé.[30] The latter was a box office success, taking $29 million in its opening weekend.[31]
Two films brought in neary $50 million? Which means that each made $25 million. $100 million domestically in the US is a blockbuster -- even during the pandemic. So, no, those films weren't hits. He did not 'sar' in PROM NIGHT OR ROCKNROLLA. He was part of an ensemble in both. In PROM NIGHT, he is tenth billed. In ROCKNROLLA, he is fifth billed. Those aren't starring roles. OBSESSED was not a box office success. It almost made $70 million in the US -- on a 20 million shooting budget, with a ten million promotion budget (they went all in, convinced Beyonce could have a film career) and that's not counting prints. It did a little better than break even. Stop pretending. THE DARK TOWER cost $60 million just to shoot and brought in about $50 million in North America. Not a hit. His -- or 'his' -- hits come from playing a bit part in the Thor and Avengers films. He was fourth billed in the bomb that is CATS. He's a failure.
And he built his career around racism. "Classy." Racist US studios cast him in Black American roles because unlike people like me (Black Americans) they saw British Idris as classy.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Shut up, Idris Elba, racism has driven your career in the US
The upcoming Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance Somebody” stars BAFTA-winning actor Naomi Ackie as the legendary singer, which means the debate over Black British actors taking roles away from American actors is bound to resurface. The debate surged in 2017 after Samuel L. Jackson called out Daniel Kaluuya’s casting in “Get Out,” for which the actor earned an Oscar nomination.
“I tend to wonder what that movie would have been with an American brother who really feels that,” Jackson said.
In a new interview on “The Shop” (via The Root), Idris Elba railed against the claim that Black British actors take roles away from American actors. Naomi Ackie’s role in “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” served as a launching pad for the discussion. Talk show host Maverick Carter asked Elba about Ackie’s casting, noting that Black American women might criticize a Black British actor playing an American icon.
I'm really sick of Idris Elba. He's not a star. He's been given multiple chances and failed everytime -- twice in the last few weeks alone. See Stan's "Weekend box office" for more on that. If he's British, he's British. There's nothing wrong with that. But get your Black ass out of American films playing Americans -- especially real life ones. It is racist and you're offensive. Ava and C.I. have addressed this repeatedly at THIRD and been very clear on this issue.
American studios are casting British Blacks because American studios are racists. They think MLK and then think that 'lower' US Blacks can't play the roles so they case British. It's offensive.
Idris was offeed many chances to become a star in America and he failed repeatedly. He's Clifton Davis, someone who is known but can't sell tickets. Idris turns 50 in three days. He's not a movie star and he's now too old to become one. He had two flop films in the last three weeks.
Here's how CRAPAPEDIA lies for him:
In 2007, Elba signed on as the lead role of the film Daddy's Little Girls, playing Monty, a blue-collar mechanic who falls in love with an attorney helping him gain custody of his kids, and finds the relationship and his custody hopes threatened by the return of his former wife. He appeared in 28 Weeks Later (2007) and This Christmas (2007), which brought in nearly $50 million at the box office in 2007.[28][29] In 2008, he starred in the horror film Prom Night and the Guy Ritchie London gangster film RocknRolla.[28] In 2009, he starred in the horror film The Unborn and in Obsessed, a thriller that had him cast opposite Beyoncé.[30] The latter was a box office success, taking $29 million in its opening weekend.[31]
Two films brought in neary $50 million? Which means that each made $25 million. $100 million domestically in the US is a blockbuster -- even during the pandemic. So, no, those films weren't hits. He did not 'sar' in PROM NIGHT OR ROCKNROLLA. He was part of an ensemble in both. In PROM NIGHT, he is tenth billed. In ROCKNROLLA, he is fifth billed. Those aren't starring roles. OBSESSED was not a box office success. It almost made $70 million in the US -- on a 20 million shooting budget, with a ten million promotion budget (they went all in, convinced Beyonce could have a film career) and that's not counting prints. It did a little better than break even. Stop pretending. THE DARK TOWER cost $60 million just to shoot and brought in about $50 million in North America. Not a hit. His -- or 'his' -- hits come from playing a bit part in the Thor and Avengers films. He was fourth billed in the bomb that is CATS. He's a failure.
And he built his career around racism. "Classy." Racist US studios cast him in Black American roles because unlike people like me (Black Americans) they saw British Idris as classy.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):