{"id":93331,"date":"2017-03-09T23:58:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T04:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93331"},"modified":"2017-03-09T23:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T04:58:33","slug":"samuel-jackson-comments-about-black-brit-actors-not-a-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/09\/samuel-jackson-comments-about-black-brit-actors-not-a-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Jackson: Comments about black Brit actors not a slam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samuel Jackson said Wednesday he wasn’t trying to slam black British actors when he criticized their casting in American films such as the horror hit \u201cGet Out\u201d and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drama \u201cSelma.\u201d (Photo by Gage Skidmore – https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/14800273414\/, CC BY-SA 2.0,<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Samuel Jackson said Wednesday he wasn’t trying to slam black British actors when he criticized their casting in American films such as the horror hit \u201cGet Out\u201d and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drama \u201cSelma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson told The Associated Press that his comments Monday on the radio station Hot 97 weren’t necessarily misunderstood, but his criticism was not of the performers but rather of the system that allows black actors from overseas take prominent roles in American films.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not a slam against them, but it was just a comment about how Hollywood works in an interesting sort of way sometimes,\u201d Jackson said at the premiere of his new film \u201cKong: Skull Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson noted on Monday that a lot of roles are going to British actors. He said he wondered what \u201cGet Out\u201d would have been like \u201cwith an American brother who really feels that.\u201d Jordan Peele’s film is about an African-American photographer, played by the British actor Daniel Kaluuya, whose white girlfriend brings him home to her parents’ house.<\/p>\n

Jackson also pointed to Ava DuVernay’s \u201cSelma,\u201d which starred David Oyelowo as King.<\/p>\n

His comments drew criticism from John Boyega, the British \u201cStar Wars\u201d star, who on Twitter called the debate a \u201cstupid\u201d conflict \u201cwe don’t have time for.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Jackson was complimentary of the skills and hard work black British performers put in to take on American roles, but he said that was a one-way street.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re not afforded that same luxury, but that’s fine, we have plenty of opportunities to work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy their work,\u201d Jackson said of his British counterparts. \u201cI enjoy working with them when I have the opportunity to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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