Samuel L Jackson condemns casting black British actors in US roles they can't understand

The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8 March 2017 | Hannah Furness

[PotatoHeadMick]

Hollywood should stop constantly casting black British actors in American roles they cannot fully understand, Samuel L Jackson has said, as he claims UK stars get work because they are simply cheaper.

[proud American in Canada]

LOL!!!
K
What grace and dignity SLJ showed. * rolls eyes*

[x_plus_one]

He’s right. Who wants to hear a flat line foreign interpretation of Real American Life? It is absurd to cast British blacks in films that detail inside baseball on american culture and history.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not really no. For one thing they don't even know what irony is.

[HonkyTonkMan]

They are actors. Paid to pretend.

[x_plus_one]

The same goes for white film parts - who wants to see a brit playing abraham lincoln or george patton?

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

How this guy keeps his job flogging credit cards is beyond me. He is thoroughly unlikable.

Because white cucks think he's "cool and badass."

[SaveFerris]

Oh no!

[Hiro Protaginast]

To quote Sammy himself “Mutha F###a Please”

[vetvetdoug]

The spokesperson for the race of professional victims, Samuel L. Jackson.

[Tired of Taxes]

Not sure why everyone else is critical of his comments.
All he seems to be saying is, “Hire American.”

[DennisR]

Hey, Samuel, what’s in your head today? Nothing? Just as I thought.

[kearnyirish2]

Like Spain & Portugal, England kept its slaves at a distance - oceans away from the homeland. IIRC, all 13 colonies had slaves - and 75 years after independence those that outlawed it fought a war that outlawed it in the rest.

[NoLibZone]

LMAO.

A 1%er upset that immigrants are taking work.

[doorgunner69]

That argument could just as well apply to Mr. Obama.

The irony!!

[BBell]

The British actors are amongst the best in the world.

[Ready4Freddy]

almost-half-black man

With a name like Barack Hussein there is bound to have been an Arab in the wood pile.

[Bryanw92]

>>With a name like Barack Hussein there is bound to have been an Arab in the wood pile.

It’s a Muslim name. Muslim isn’t a race. I have an Irish first name and French middle name, but I’m neither Irish nor French.

[Seruzawa]

Well, Sammy, they’d be cheaper even if they got the same salaries because they show up on time, take direction, don’t abuse the grips or other crew.... You know, they behave like professionals not millionaire spoiled hoodrat jacka$$es.

[Oztrich Boy]

Also British black actors are articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guys with no Negro dialect, unless they want to have one.

[Rebelbase]

The brit blacks speak the King’s English.