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I would LMAO at the reactions of hypocritical the woke fools if a remake of the Jackie Robinson Story were done with, say Brad Pitt in the leading role. Or a remake of Lady Sings the Blues with Taylor not so Swift as Billie Holliday šŸ¤”šŸ˜ƒšŸ¤”šŸ¤”
1 posted on 04/08/2024 9:23:28 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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This sounds bogus to me. Who is bullying her? This sounds like an artificial “controversy” meant to bring publicity.


34 posted on 04/08/2024 9:45:00 AM PDT by marron
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HARD pass on ANOTHER remake.


35 posted on 04/08/2024 9:46:08 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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Oh so NOW its racist bullying. How about when a White actor plays a non White character?


36 posted on 04/08/2024 9:46:17 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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37 posted on 04/08/2024 9:47:52 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Actress Faces Racist Bullying for Starring as Juliet in "Romeo & Juliet"

That's why they picked her, isn't it? They did this deliberately to stir up a bunch of trouble. They certainly didn't pick her for her looks or for any desire to be true to the story.

38 posted on 04/08/2024 9:48:19 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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if the errors of my life dropped that into my life... i’d commit suicide as well.


39 posted on 04/08/2024 9:48:23 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Produced by Bialystock and Bloom.


43 posted on 04/08/2024 9:55:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It’s at Duke of York’s Theatre so who cares ,LOL


44 posted on 04/08/2024 9:56:00 AM PDT by butlerweave
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They need to get Whoopi Goldberg and Zach Roloff as “Romeo and Juliet”....


45 posted on 04/08/2024 9:57:29 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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You hit the nail on the head, FRiend.

Spot on.


46 posted on 04/08/2024 9:57:45 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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How did the woke Cleopatra movie do? I refused to watch it.


47 posted on 04/08/2024 10:00:27 AM PDT by jpsb
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They did this on purpose. Interracial cast. The ugliest Juliet they could find. (Sorry, not sorry) The marketing department uses their army of spam bots to post ā€œracistā€ comments. Free publicity for the movie. They do not care about the feelings of the actress, who does not deserve the criticism. But they donā€™t care.


49 posted on 04/08/2024 10:02:08 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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Youā€™d have to find a fictional character thatā€™s black and have a white actor post it. So far blacks are playing white fictional characters.


54 posted on 04/08/2024 10:09:30 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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Ok just doing a shallow dive I can’t find any racist comments, just the REPORTS of racist comments.

Is this in the “Things That Never Happened” category? Because it kinda feels like it is.

The woman is not very attractive and the guy playing Romeo looks like a pure dweeb. Not a very likely star crossed couple. I will wonder if her family will be all black and if his family objects on those grounds.

All that said - big deal if Juliet is played by a woman with darker skin pigments? It takes place in Italy - you should see some of my relatives.


57 posted on 04/08/2024 10:11:47 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( Bring back insane asylums)
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RE: Actress Faces Racist Bullying for Starring as Juliet in “Romeo & Juliet”

What if she starred as “Romeo” instead? :)


64 posted on 04/08/2024 10:33:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I have a suspicion the comments are troll accounts by the producers to get free exposure.


65 posted on 04/08/2024 10:33:52 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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What will happen with descriptions:

“the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars” (II,ii,20), or “yet so fair” and “crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks” (V,iii,95).”


67 posted on 04/08/2024 10:36:02 AM PDT by odawg
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Interesting.

They chose a sub saharan black woman who is not considered particularlly attractive within her own sub sahara cohort.

Sort. Of like casting Lena Dunham or Barbara Streisand as juliiet.


71 posted on 04/08/2024 10:48:40 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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They couldn’t find a lovely black actress? They didn’t even try to find one.


75 posted on 04/08/2024 10:55:54 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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I doubt she’s really being bullied or racially attacked. You’d have to be a moron to do that. Shakespeare took the Italian story and wrote an English play that was performed by English actors, until it was translated into various other languages and performed by other casts. Bernstein, Sondheim and Company turned it into a love story between a Puerto Rican girl and a white boy (Polish?).

Since it’s about lovers from two warring houses or families or backgrounds, a white/black mix shouldn’t be any problem. Nobody really thinks it’s a historical representation of what life in Renaissance Verona or Elizabethan England was really like. The play is bigger and different from that. It’s not like they’re making Anne Boleyn black in a supposed historical drama. It’s not like non-Italian and non-British actors haven’t been putting on the play for years and years.


81 posted on 04/08/2024 11:25:29 AM PDT by x
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