I watched John Cassavetes first film Shadows the other day on Criterion. Kind of about this, pretty passing girl whose white boyfriend is shocked upon meeting her brother. Good footage of Times Square in the late 50’s. And all the blacks are super dignified and smart.
Going forward I think we can expect mass mass shootings over every holiday that gives people an excuse to party and become intoxicated. Thanksgiving is right around the corner!
How about Halsey and Troian Bellisario? Halsey’s not an actress, as far as I know, but having her branch out Madonna style, no matter how clumsily, is still better than making a movie about passing with two unmistakably biracial actresses.
Jennifer Beals (another one I didn’t know was part Black until recently) turned in a moving performance as an actress who passes as White and whose black mother pretends to be her maid in The Last Tycoon.
Hall is one of those actresses who everyone told me was hot but I never felt attraction to. Much like with Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson. Ironically, all three have ended up in Marvel movies in major roles. (Hall was in Iron Man 3 as one of Tony’s former lays/lady genius scientist). With Hall, her jaw always throws me off. It seems oversized and cavemannish when she talks. Probably helped her mother when she belted out all those arias.
The “passing for white†accusation has nothing to do with slavery. It is based on the presumption that true whites are racially pure and that the “taint†of “black blood†makes one unworthy of a white identity – regardless of the predominance of European ancestry. Notice that the attitude toward American Indian ancestry in whites is exactly the opposite. The film by the very white multiracial Brit Rebecca Hall is based on a 1929 novel by a light-brown half-Danish woman named Nella Larsen.
A lot could be happening, but we both agree this can happen with Creoles and Dominicans and that 3% of South Africa that is mixed. That’s good enough for me — I’m not heavily invested in the particulars of Liang’s story one way or the other because even if she had some other father, it wouldn’t change the point about Creoles and Dominicans and so forth.
“Michael Scott†made the “exotic†remark as a kind of insider joke since Rashida’s status as Quincy Jones’ daughter was well known.
Stage is a different medium than film. Stage is both more and less real. It is more real in the physical presence of the actors and the live performance, but it’s also more fanciful, like “here we are, putting on a play.
It’s not really antebellum: one drop rules were adapted from the reconstruction period through the early 20th century. Was also followed in some places outside the South.
The actor playing the gardener on the estate was played by a black. The improbability of that was hard to ignore.
It’s really not even a thing by this point, just a curiosity. Any skin lighteners she’d use would make her almost albino or something.
I can foresee a time when English theater is cem% black. Whites are simply being exterminated from the English stage.
We’ve already gotten the Black Achilles and Lancelots and so on. I suppose it was the logical next step from Black actors pretending they are White: Black actors pretending that they look White so that they can play Related Site Black people pretending that they are White people.