And so artists are underpaid and Joe Rogan gets paid all this money and it’s hard for me to, these days, just sit back and go, ‘Oh, well, that’s how it goes.’ I made a commitment with myself, after reading this book by Martha Beck called The Way of Integrity – she challenges the reader to an integrity cleanse and it means telling the whole truth all the time and see what it will make of your life.
Instead of simply hiring a great actress like Viola Davis or many others, the film’s producers would rather cast a lighter-skinned, more “safe” actress and hire makeup artists to make Saldana look more like a woman who rebelled against colorism for being a dark skinned woman her entire life and career.“Yes, I decided to pull my music and my podcast from Spotify but it’s dual,” India.Arie told “Tamron Hall.” “One is the Joe Rogan conversation and for me his language around race and some of the things I’ve seen and heard, but also coupled with that, there is the treatment of artists by Spotify.
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To propagate that institutionalized racism that is historical in Hollywood in a movie about her is ironic in the worst possible way.” She continued, “In the context of the politics of race in America and the politics of race in the entertainment industry in America, to make a movie about a person like that and cast an actress that has to wear blackface and a prosthetic nose is tone-deaf. It would have changed someone’s life, I think.” “It would have been important and impactful had they made a movie about Nina Simone where the actress really looked like her. “When you think about the way that we as human beings can inspire each other by being able to be our authentic selves, to deny someone who looks like Nina Simone the opportunity to play her is sad,” Arie said. It made me wonder, ‘Was that how the filmmakers see her? Did they not think she was beautiful? Were they like, ‘Yeah, we got it! That’s how she looked,’” Arie stated.Īrie holds nothing against Saldana for accepting the role but thinks it was a lost opportunity for an actress who naturally looks like Simone.
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Her skin looked weird, and her nose looked weird. But in this movie, she just looked weird.
Whether or not Nina Simone was beautiful in your eyes, I thought she was beautiful. The way she looked in the movie was ugly. “I think the best way to say it is that they casted her against type and went too far to make her fit,” she said. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Arie talked about the issues she has with the film’s production. India Arie is one artist who’s spoken up about the casting, as it holds a deep place in her heart Arie was cast as Simone for a 2003 episode of the 1960s-set NBC drama “American Dreams”. Many people aren’t happy with the fact Saldana had to use prosthetics and darkened with makeup to look more like Simone, who, ironically, spoke out against colorism and suffered heavy criticism for being a dark-skinned black woman. The most recent I can remember was the controversial casting of Lifetime’s “biopic” based on the life if Aaliyah and white actor Joseph Fiennes cast to play Michael Jackson for a forthcoming British sitcom.īut the latest controversy regards the upcoming Nina Simone biopic, Nina, starring Zoe Saldana as the late singer/songwriter/activist.
If the actor/actress doesn’t look like the true person even a little bit, it can throw off the realness of the entire film. A casting director’s job is very important, especially when it comes to films based on the lives of real people.