Posted on 05/08/2018 6:11:17 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A theatre agent has apologised for a comment she made in a private forum that criticised a casting call for only black, Asian or minority ethnic actors and claiming the decision put “talented white performers out of work”.
Gemma Hamilton, who runs Lowy Hamilton Artists, made the remarks in a forum on Facebook, in which she said she was “bored of breakdowns asking for BAME actors” because it “adds that va-va-voom to the cast list”.
“And now I see a breakdown for BAME-only that are actor/musos. It’s putting talented ‘white’ performers out of work. I think it stinks,” she wrote.
Her remarks were met with heavy criticism from the theatre community, including actor Shobna Gulati, formerly in Coronation Street and soon to be in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, who said the casting breakdown was about “opening up the playing field that historically is mostly non-inclusive”.
“Now I welcome initiatives where actors like me, of colour, are also considered, I am disappointed that you can’t see the value of opportunity for all,” she wrote.
Actor Alexia Khadime said she was “saddened and offended that this would come from an agent who I can only assume has many different races on their books”, while writer Jonathan Harvey added he was “sick of seeing all-white casts on screen or stage”.
“It doesn’t match the world I live in. And yet it’s ubiquitous. The world on screen or stage should surely match ours,” he said.
Hamilton responded to the criticisms claiming she was “devastated” and that her comments had been taken out of context.
“I was actually trying to express how all actors should be considered equal regardless of their ethnicity. We have a plethora of talented actors of all ethnicities and want them to have the same opportunities,” she said.
She added: “I absolutely do apologise for the wording used and [it was] entirely not how I meant it to sound but I was posting to a private group who know my character. I agree we have a long way to go and actors should always be cast on their talent as opposed to their appearance.”
Go back and read Ian Fleming’s books...It will make things clear...
When I was casting for a major network, we had to drop “Caucasian Only.” So stupid. Waste of time and money for the actors and agents when there was no intention to cast anything but white for certain roles.
I’ve said it before, if a Martian landed here and started watching TV ads (especially sports), “it” would think the US is well over 50% black.
When you see it, boycott it.
Why even waste the energy talking about it?
Those aliens would also think all criminals are White, Most Doctors, especially the really good ones, are Black. Same for every other respected profession.
Every White cop has to have a no nonsense Black boss to keep him in line.
In fact all people in charge are Black or if there are Whites, the Blacks are over the Whites. and I have seen this one several times: The White Doctor and Black Doctor disagree on treatment. The White patient chooses the White Dr. which turns out to be really wrong.
There was one show, I actually liked but it got funny it was so ridiculous. Every Psychiatrist at least the good ones were Black. Almost every scientist was Black, again the top ones usually Black.
The show is Smallville and Superman’s best friend is Pete Ross who is Black. Well he was White in the comic books. Unfortunately the actor playing Pete Ross got caught selling drugs and went to prison so they had to write him out.
They do throw in a few Chinese or Japanese just to show they are not prejudiced, at least against them.
All this in a state, Kansas, which is 2% Black.
It IS that bad, in commercials...if not worse! And then there are all of the ones where the couples are mixed and the kid looks VERY black, but the mom is very light skinned and the father is white.
The next time "THE GREAT WHITE HOPE" is revived, the Jack Johnson character MUST therefor be a white man! ;^)
And yes, don't get ME started on the now DISGUSTINGLY HORRIBLE Doctor Who! Which I shan't EVER watch again and I began watching that series long, long, long, LONG ago.
Imagine an all-white production of Raisin in the Sun.
Oh LOVELY and an all white “PORGY AND BESS”, “CARMEN JONES”, and a lily white, blonde actor portraying Obama! hehehehehehe
“Theatre agent Gemma Hamilton has been attacked for saying actors should be hired based on talent and not race.”
I’d love to see a mass boycott of talent agencies that traffic in this crap, then productions using all white casts with really good scripts.
The other thing they are clearly pushing is inter racial couples.
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Yes, I have been noticing that, too. One commercial after another, almost as if that is the most common type of marriage.
“The other clear thing is they will never put a black in a position of inferiority, particularly if a commercial is meant to be funny. They will never be the butt of the joke.”
The Butt of the joke role is reserved for white males.
LOL!
You know why they are pushing interracial couples, yes?
I know why.
Should be obvious enough what aim is, of the promotion - to whites only - of homosexuality and other sexual deviancies, feminism, divorce, interracial sex that invariably always involves a white female and a nonwhite male, and various forms of anti-reproduction advocacy.
The goal is to eliminate white people. And it’s working.
Yes. YES.
So having Idris Alba as Bond would be just as good. Or even a female Bond. Remember that there have been 20+ Bond films, they need to change this to keep the next installment exciting.
As for chess - it's a musical
if they made a historical movie or a documentary where the characters were not of the correct ethnicity that would be bad - oh wait, blonde blue-eyed Charlton Heston played Moses and also a Jew during the Roman era.
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