Posted on 09/27/2020 3:30:25 PM PDT by EdnaMode
You know Yara Shahidi. Black-ish actor, fashion icon, passionate activist, and inspiration to us all.
Well now, the 20-year-old is out here changing the game. Yara Shahidi was just cast as the first Black Tinkerbell ever!!
The film, called Peter Pan and Wendy, will star Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson as the titular characters. And Jude Law will be playing Captain Hook!
In a recent Instagram post, she made the announcement by sharing some gorgeous artwork (by @alexcollectsofficial) portraying her as Tinkerbell.
"Thank you for all of the love," the Grown-ish actor said in the caption. "It truly means so much to me. I’m excited for this next adventure!"
Blessing us with Yara as Tinkerbell is Disney's latest move to increase diversity in live-action films. You might remember that Halle Bailey was cast as Ariel in an upcoming remake of The Little Mermaid. Let's hope this trend continues!
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
They DO realize most Americans, including smart black Americans, are just laughing at this obvious, ridiculous pandering, don’t they?
Tinkerbell got fired as one of the official Disney princesses a few years ago (replaced by Mulan? Moana? I’m not sure).
So maybe she’ll get rehired.
BLACK MOM TO BLACK KID: See, now you can be Tinkerbell, too!
BLACK KID TO BLACK MOM: Who the hell wants to be Tinkerbell?
Next up...
new WWII movie about Hitler with a black actor...
Helter Skelter with a black actor playing Charles Manson...
Remake of Silence of the Lambs with a black actor...
Remake of Uncle Tom’s Cabin with a black actor as Simon Legree and a white actor as Tom (just for diversity’s sake...)
A Juneteenth movie with all white actors playing the happy ex-slaves...black Lincoln of course !
and so on....
such fun !!!!!
Not cultural appropriation.
When will have have the first white MLK or Ali?
Let’s not forget...
- the majority of award winners being blacks... by decree.
No she jacks you with a crowbar and takes your wallet.
Wasn’t the original Disney Tinkerbell based on Marilyn Monroe? A beautiful woman? This muslim woman is pretty I guess... not gorgeous like Marilyn.
“....inspiration to us all.”
Are you quite sure of that, Morgan?
Screw these ppl.
Yeah.
If you are going to go woke, at least be decent enough to pick am actress who really is black, not latte light brown. They certainly are available and, frankly, they need the work:
The story of Peter Pan is an Anglo-Saxon one based on their folk lore.
So.... isn't this cultural appropriation?
Isn't that a bad thing?
Or was that last week.
I was thinking Stacey Abrams would have been a better fit.
Well I was wrong, Not MM, but Margaret Kerry -
https://www.waltdisney.org/education/talks/tales-tinker-bell-margaret-kerry
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449905/?ref_=nmmi_mi_nm
If they truly want diversity, why don’t they stop rewriting Caucasian fairytales and create tales from African stories?
It is ridiculous to have to swallow beloved characters from childhood suddenly becoming other than what they were written as all because others cannot come up with something original.
*Like everything else in Hollywood. Reboot this...
And we will all be branded racists once again when it dies at the box office.
Get back to me when a good decent black author can write a story that captures the imagination of millions like white authors have for millennia.
Until then, stop with the cultural appropriation hypocrites.
Do these whackadoodles still fuss about white actors playing “minority” characters? Of course they do ... to be a progressive is to be a hypocrite.
If putting a sexy black woman in a skimpy outfit (instead of a sexy white woman) is progress, go for it, I guess.
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