Well, he did smash Lake Town, after taking an arrow to the breast.
Posted on 11/28/2010 5:57:06 PM PST by naturalman1975
PETER Jackson's troubled Hobbit project has become embroiled in a race row after a would-be extra was told she was too dark to play one of the pint-sized Tolkien creatures, reports said.
Briton Naz Humphreys, who has Pakistani heritage, attended a casting session in the New Zealand city of Hamilton last week, queueing for three hours only to be told her skin tone was not suitable, the Waikato Times reported.
"It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin," Humphreys told the newspaper.
"The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned."
The newspaper said video footage showed the casting manager telling people at the audition: "We are looking for light-skinned people. I'm not trying to be - whatever. It's just the brief. You've got to look like a hobbit."
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LOL. These PC casting decisions make movies unintentionally hilarious. Remember the plot contortions that were necessary to get Morgan Freeman into Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood?
Besides, I’d love to see a Muslim Hobbit. Think of the plot possibilities.
Were there any decisions based on color of skin when they were Filming Malcom X?
Did they consider an Asian woman for the role of Malcom X?
Curse you, Proofreader!
I'd discriminate against you because you're a frickin' idiot.
Naz Humphreys makes a good point. I mean Whoopie Goldberg would make a great Snow White.
Meanwhile, I was told I was too old for a modeling gig even though I played the same age (25) for a movie during the same time period. It happens. It is how the director envisions things. Not a personal insult.
thanks for the chuckle. dang, am I sick of this stuff.
Plotting to hijack Smaug then to crash him into the Two Towers I suppose...
THEN we would have Muslim Hobbits!!!
PC moron. Hey! Can you imagine a white person whining because they don’t get to play... I dunno, Al Sharpton in a biopic?
There’s a certain point where liberals should just start having DUMB ASS rubber stamped on their foreheads, just to warn anyone around to ignore them whenever they speak.
From the LOTR Prologue, Concerning Hobbits:
‘The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless...
Ah, these are the illegal alien hobbits that provide all the lawn services.
Samwise Gonzalez
Nuthin a little makeup can’t fix
Midget martyrs?
I bet no white, or Pakastani, or Japanese women were considered for Angela Bassett’s role in “What’s Love Got to do With It”. Than again, Yule Brenner played the king of Siam...
The race card is played to death.
Well, he did smash Lake Town, after taking an arrow to the breast.
And hobbitual liers.
You say Naz girl, I say Nazgul lets call the whole thing off.
Every ethnic restaurant I’ve been to hires mexicans. Chinese, mediteranian, korean, japanese...whatever. they all hire mexicans. Sometimes even the mexican restaurants hire mexicans.
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