Posted on 12/06/2016 9:08:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Hollywood actor Matt Damon on Tuesday defended his starring role in upcoming Hollywood film "The Great Wall", saying that accusations of "whitewashing", or the use Caucasian stars over actors of other ethnicities, were unfounded.
“Zhang Yimou called me and asked me to be in his movie," Damon said in Beijing, referring to the film's director who joined him on a panel.
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"When I think of 'whitewashing' I think Chuck Connors playing Geronimo, that’s whitewashing and that’s unacceptable," he said, referring to a Caucasian actor who played the Native American chief Geronimo in a 1962 Western.
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Why not forget about Damon and instead explore some of Zhang Yimou’s films? I recommend HAPPY TIMES and NOT ONE LESS.
Take the music out of the Bourne movies and they are garbage.
Good enough! Besides, Moby is a big lib himself, but he lives on my iPod.
So whites can’t play nonwhites, but nonwhites can play whites? Like blacks playing Santa Claus?
They can just appropriate all our culture and thats cool with you huh Matt?
Matt Damon's mouth is so big it wraps around his head. Chuck would have to round house slap him 360 degrees to get him to shut up. Same with the rest of his buddies - Affleck, Clooney, Penn, etc...
I thought his most memorable role was in Team America: World Police (2004)
Ah yes, the limousine scene..;O
“I assume, then, that Damon will be playing a white character? In China, during the time of the Mongol invasions?”
Yes.
Liberals sacks of shit like Matt Damon always keep their hypocrite credentials well validated.
Chuck did it in pre-game warmup, not in a game only because the rim was missing a reinforcement piece and wasn’t due to a slam dunk. Still a good trivia bit.
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The Rifleman was one of my favorite childhood TV shows.
And I had no idea of the NBA connection.
who cares what ethnicity, race or nationality an actor is when he plays a role... it’s ACTING! why shouldn’t Chuck Connor play Geronimo? why must a homosexual play the gay role? In any case, Matt Damon plays an English mercenary... it’s not like he stole a role from an Asian actor...
Is Santa Claus white? Some people don’t consider Turkish white.
He lived 800 years before the Turks showed up
When I think of ‘whitewashing’ I think other people doing the deed, never me. That’s whitewashing and that’s unacceptable,” he said,
He played baseball for the Dogers and had the grand total of one hit.
I assume you mean Chuck Conners. Thanks for the information, although the tone seems to be derogatory.
None of us have even one “hit” for the Dodgers, so he still is the man.
Matt Damon is a total fag compared to even Chuck Connor’s faggiest cousin.
Oh, is the poor dear getting eaten by the crocodile already?
You’d think the neo-marxist SJWs would leave their fellow traveling Chomskylander for last.
There’s a reason that Stalin called his useful idiots idiots. They were the first up against the wall once they were done being useful.
Damon could have referenced a more contemporary example. He might have noted that the cast of the Broadway play Hamilton was white, er, blackwashed.
the left’s hypocrisy yet again on display.
The sad part is that they honestly do not see their own hypocrisy. It’s like CNN saying they are not biased.
They have surrounded themselves with like minded people that they just can’t see what they do is hypocritical, and yet they pat themselves on the backs, and tell each other how smart they are while others are just stupid and dumb.
Doesn’t he realize that Connors was homosexual? He must be homophobic....and racist against Whites.
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