Ridley Scott Speaks About Casting White Actors In Exodus
"I can't mount a film of this budget...and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such" http://t.co/UwiOoeZEsd Charming.
— Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) November 25, 2014Like most high-profile religious pictures since Martin Scorsese’s 1988 “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “Exodus” became the subject of intense media scrutiny before Scott had ever exposed a frame of (digital) film on stages at London’s Pinewood Studios and on location in Spain. Much of the outcry online stemmed from his decision to cast white American, European and Australian actors in most of the key roles, no matter that the same could be said of “The Passion of the Christ,” “Noah,” “The Ten Commandments” and virtually any other big-budget Bible movies. “I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott says. “I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.”
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I was thinking that actors of colour dont get a chance to act in a role where the race of the character isnt white yet a white actor gets casted for it
Link, please? I'm surprised by that information because I'm Spanish and as far as I know, movies like "12 years of slavery", "Django Unchained", "I, robot" or "The Color Purple" were as succesful in my country as they were in the USA. Also, people here just love Will Smith and Denzel Washington. I doubt it's different in Germany, France or UK.
but yeah i have two cousins (brothers) both named mohammad...and if ahmad is version of mohammad then that's basically most of the men in my extended family lol
yikes wow
C Bale is biggest cracker that ever cracked playing a POC in a biblical movie.
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