DIRECTORS HAVE DECIDED TO CAST BLACK BRITISH ACTORS AND

AMERICAN FILMS AS OPPOSED TO BLACK AMERICAN ACTORS.

THE

RECENT EXAMPLE HE GAVE WAS THE

FILM GET OUT WHICH IS A PRETTY GOOD FILM, CHECK IT OUT.

HERE IS

THE ACTOR THAT WAS CAST IN CASE

YOU DIDN'T SEE THE FILM.

HE WAS ACTUALLY PHENOMENAL.

I THOUGHT

HE DID VERY WELL IN THE FILM.

>> PART OF HIS POINT WAS THAT ñ ESPECIALLY FOR MOVIES LIKE SELMA

WHERE MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS PLAYED BY A BRITISH ACTOR, IF

YOU LIVE IN THIS COUNTRY, AND THIS COUNTRY HAD A DEEPER

HISTORY OF RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION THAN GREAT

BRITAIN DID, THEN YOU MIGHT HAVE

MORE VISCERAL REACTION AND THAT MIGHT HELP YOUR ACTING.

IT IS AN

INTERESTING CASE TO MAKE.

I BOTH AGREE AND DISAGREE WITH IT IN PARTS.

>>I THINK THE WHOLE POINT OF ACTING IS THAT THE ACTOR IS

ACTING.

I DON'T CARE IF IT IS A BLACK GUY FROM BRITAIN OR THE

UNITED STATES.

I CARE WHETHER OR NOT THAT GUY IS THE BEST FIT FOR

THE ROLE.

I THOUGHT IN THIS CASE THE ACTOR DID A GREAT JOB IN THE

ROLE.

I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS,

BUT AT THE SAME TIME I FEEL IT IS AN UNFAIR CRITICISM BECAUSE

IF YOU ARE JUST CASTING PEOPLE

WHO PLAY THEMSELVES IT IS NOT INTERESTING.

I THINK ACTORS ARE

SUPPOSED TO ACT, AND IN THIS

CASE THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED.

WHAT DOES ANNOY ME IS WHERE THEY WILL

CAST A NON-ARMENIAN WOMAN TO

PLAY AN ARMENIAN IN A MOVIE.

THERE ARE ARMENIAN ACTRESSES,

WHY DON'T YOU JUST HIRE THEM INSTEAD?

>> THAT IS NOT THAT FAR REMOVED FROM WHAT SAMUEL JACKSON IS

SAYING.

>>I THINK IT IS.

HOW IS IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM A WHITE PERSON PLAYING AN ASIAN

PERSON?

>> WHAT HE IS SAYING IS THAT BLACK AMERICANS HAVE A DIFFERENT

EXPERIENCE THAN BLACKS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

I AM GOING

TO QUOTE HIM AGAIN.

" WHAT WOULD A BROTHER FROM AMERICA HAVE MADE

OF THAT ROLE?

SOME THINGS ARE MADE UNIVERSAL, BUT NOT

EVERYTHING."

I AGREE WITH YOU THE WHOLE POINT OF ACTING IS

ACTING, YOU TAKE ON A DIFFERENT

ROLE.

THE WOMAN WHO PLAYED CORETTA SCOTT KING IS ALSO A

BRITISH ACTRESS.

SHE CLAIMED THE

OPPOSITE.

THAT IS TOTAL HORSE SHIT.

THE PART THAT ANNOYED ME

AND WHERE I STARTED TO AGREE

WITH SAMUEL L JACKSON IS THIS -

I GET THE ECONOMICS OF WANTING

TO HIRE ACTORS WHO ARE NOT AS

EXPENSIVE.

BUT THIS WHOLE CLASSICALLY TRAINED STAFF ñ A

LOT OF THE BRITISH ACTORS GET

TRAINED IN THE THEATER.

SO THE THEATER ACTORS ARE BETTER THAN

NON-THEATER ACTORS.

HATE IT,

DON'T BELIEVE IN IT AT ALL.

THAT GETS UNDER SAMUEL'S SKIN, I

AGREE WITH HIM.

THEATER ACTING

IS DIFFERENT THAN MOVIE ACTING.

IT IS NOT ANY BETTER.

IN THE

THEATER THEY OVERACT BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO REACH THE GUY ALL

THE WAY UP OVER THERE WHO CAN'T

HEAR.

THAT IS WHY THEY ARE ALWAYS SCREAMING AND

OVERDRAMATIC.

I HATE THAT BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO

FAKE.

I WOULD ARGUE THAT MOVIE ACTORS ARE BETTER THAN THEATER

ACTORS.

I KNOW FOR THE REAL

ACTORS THEY WILL BE SHOCKED.

OVERALL I DON'T THINK JACKSON

MAKES THAT COMPELLING A CASE ON

THAT.

ON THE OTHER HAND IF THEY THINK THEATER ACTORS ARE BETTER,

I GO BACK TO BEING ON JACKSON'S

SIDE.

JUST BECAUSE HE WASN'T CLASSICALLY TRAINED IN BRITISH

THEATER IS NOT A GOOD IS AT AN ACTOR?

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT AT ALL.

>>I JUST DON'T CARE.

AS LONG AS THE ACTING IS GOOD.

IF A PERSON

KNOWS HOW TO PLAY A GOOD ARMENIAN ACTRESS, THEN FUCK IT,

JUST HIRE THEM.

I DON'T REALLY

CARE.

>>ONE LAST THING, JOHN WHO WAS ONE OF THE STARS OF STAR WARS

SAID, " BLACK BRITS VERSUS AFRICAN-AMERICAN, A STUPID ASS

CONFLICT.

WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR IT."

HE ORIGINALLY DID THE STAR WARS

ROLE IN HIS NORMAL BRITISH ACCENT AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS

UNBEARABLE SO THEY MADE HIM DO

IT IN HIS AMERICAN ACCENT.

THAT IS WHY WITH THIS STORY I AM KIND

OF WITH SAMUEL L JACKSON.

BRITISH SOUNDS SNOBBY.

>> IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ALSO THINK IT SOUNDS SMART.

>> MY BRITISH FRIENDS, I AM NOT GETTING ON YOU.

GOD BLESS YOUR

HEART.

WE ELECTED DONALD TRUMP, WE HAVE A CASE TO MAKE.

YOU

MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT SMARTER

THAN US.

OF COURSE INTELLIGENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ACCENTS.

OF COURSE.

ALL I'M SAYING IS DON'T GET ON US, AMERICAN

ACTORS, FOR NOT BEING TRAINED IN

THE BRITISH THEATER.

AND THEN WE WILL HAVE SAMUEL JACKSON LAYOFF YOU GUYS.

>>BUT IT IS AMERICAN CASTING DIRECTORS THAT THINK THEATER

TRAINED ACTORS FROM BRITAIN ARE

BETTER.

IT IS NOT BRITISH CASTING AGENTS.

>>THAT IS TRUE.

THAT KIND OF SNOOTY ATTITUDE WHERE THE THEATER IS THE BEST,

NOT BUYING IT.

>>DOWN WITH THE THEATER.

I'M KIDDING.

I LIKE THE THEATER ACTUALLY.

>>I PREFER SAMUEL L JACKSON.