Businessman and The Shop co-host, Maverick Carter, asked Elba about Ackie's casting, suggesting that Black American women may be critical of a Black British actress playing a beloved American icon.
Idris Elba spoke further on the topic by comparing the theory to something similar to a "caste system."
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Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu play Evelyn's husband Waymond and daughter Joy respectively. James Hong and Jamie Lee Curtis also feature in key supporting roles.
All actors play multiple versions of themselves across different universes in the zany, hilarious, and moving film.
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How about Marion Cotillard in The French , another perfectly legitimate title for such a series, given they were out West, too? Of course, they had the good sense to get rid of their aristocrats.
Only in England do we still seem to give such a tiny, staggeringly privileged and parasitical subset of the population so prominent a place in our national myth that they dominate the stories we tell.
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Idris Elba Speaks His Mind About the Black British Actor Vs Black American Actor Debate | WATCH | ...
* Idris Elba is fed up with the new debate on Black British Actors being cast in American roles. Reports state that the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" features actress Naomi Ackie playing the late legendary singer.
This casting brought back the debate over Black British actors taking roles away from Black American actors.
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That's when Elba challenged the framing of the whole idea itself: "You know what I noticed? You said Black women in America versus an English woman. Like being English makes you less Black? To me, that defines how unintelligent the argument is.
But the fact is: we're all Black. You get a Scottish actor playing an Irish character or an English actor—you don't hear about a debate. But amongst ourselves we want to point fingers because we come from a conditioning that makes people just make sure 'where're you from?
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“That is completely out of the question, from our point of view,” he tells Rolling Stone . “That’s not the first bandwagon you need to jump on. I think that’s completely ridiculous and extremely naïve.”
“We still aren’t entirely sure (what happened). There’s an autopsy being done which we know might take quite a while. But what we have heard it that there was a viral infection in her lungs,” he says.
'The Crown' casts little-known actress to play Kate in sixth season of Netflix drama
Meg Bellamy will make her acting debut playing Kate, Duchess of Cambridge in the sixth and final season of Netflix drama The Crown .
Bellamy took to Instagram after the announcement to express her excitement. "Pinch me please," she wrote on her account, which has a single post and only 956 followers, something that is sure to change soon.
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