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| ‘Eternals' Actor Said Hollywood Won't ‘Cast Non-White People As Bad Guys' Despite His Desire To Play A Villain |
| 2023-01-13 |
| [Daily Wire] "Eternals" actor Kumail Nanjiani said he’d like to star in more villain roles but was told studios refuse to cast non-white actors into those parts. "I think that Hollywood now — even though they’re trying to be more diverse — is still weird," the 44-year-old star told Esquire U.K. during a recent interview. Nanjiani went on to express his belief that restricting certain races from playing these parts, even if well-intentioned, is at the same time hindering those actors who Hollywood studios claim to be trying to help. "And that’s just as limiting as anything else," the "Silicon Valley" actor said. "I want to play more bad guys." He mentioned Sebastian Stan, best known for playing the Marvel superhero Bucky Barnes/Winter Solider. Stan also plays a cannibal in the 2022 horror movie "Fresh." "He does these big Marvel movies, and then he’ll play a psychopath," Nanjiani observed. "I was told that’s going to be hard because people don’t want to cast non-white people as bad guys." Meanwhile, the actor said he doesn’t believe he would have been cast as Somen "Steve" Banerjee in the new Hulu limited series "Welcome to Chippendales" if it hadn’t been based on a true story. He told Esquire that he believes the part, based on an immigrant from India, would have gone to a white actor instead. Nanjiani previously discussed the role more in-depth with The Hollywood Reporter, also expressing at that time his desire to depict a villain. "I’ve never gotten the opportunity to play a character like this, who has such a big arc and a descent into darkness. I’ve always [wanted to play] the bad guy — I don’t mean just guys who were kind of sh**y; I mean a bad bad guy," he said. "The story itself was so exciting and unexpected," he said of the Chippendales retrospective. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Somebody has found out he is not a person, but an object. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-01-13 13:04 |
| #9 Asshole: Anyone who is certain their time is more valuable than anyone else's. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-13 12:13 |
| #8 I pushed buggies at Walmart for a while. I've watched people walk PAST the cart corrals to put a cart on a grass divider. It took 30 mins to clear all 6 cart corrals in the parking lot. To clear the stray buggies took over an hour. People will put far more effort into being a jerk than being nice. Forget laziness, people would rather work to be mean than to be nice. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-01-13 11:48 |
| #7 Remember when these same arseholes complained about the bad guys wearing black hats was racist? Moving the goal posts to the 40 yard line was always the game - gay marriage anyone? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-01-13 10:46 |
| #6 ...I give dispensation to moms with feral knee high tikes, the kind I refer to as MIRVs (multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-01-13 08:59 |
| #5 Also, re #3, society depends on people "doing the right thing" without threat of punishment nor promise of reward. Most of the people who screech about society, community and civilization are the last to grasp this. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-13 08:31 |
| #4 Florida is the "how many parking spaces can one shopping cart block" olympics. Handicapped spaces are magnetic for them. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-13 08:27 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-01-13 08:24 |
| #2 Given even the FBI Crimes Stats show higher crime rates, we are to turn a blind eye to facts to appease WOKE & BLM & Social Justice narratives. I thought the LSD's were the Champions of follows the FACT's and SCIENCE |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-01-13 07:13 |
| #1 Wrong narrative. Evil only comes in one color. [sarc off] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-13 06:23 |