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In reply to the discussion: actress tells minorities to stop stealing white super hero roles [View all]JustAnotherGen
(38,043 posts)72. I've read two articles on this
Not at DU - and not at TMZ.
And I'm in a discussion elsewhere on this same topic with other writers.
Thanks for the explanation but I'll take my explanations from the woman who wrote the script for Juno instead thank you very much!
ETA - this didn't post
While a simple writer does not have power, I doubt she has much power & don't believe she has much history if any as a screen writer so I don't see if she could do all that you suggest. She is one of the most typecast actors out there. She could certainly speak her opinion, turning down a role (if it was offered) & giving an opinion has an impact but she isn't a major player out there.
She could if she wanted to. Her being typecast is what it is. Once upon a time- Robert Redford was considered 'just another california blonde'. 20 years later he had founded Sundance and won an Oscar for Directing.
If she doesn't like the system - change from within.
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actress tells minorities to stop stealing white super hero roles [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Mar 2015
OP
Most of the 'hero' franchises are from comics that are many decades old.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Mar 2015
#1
Guardians of the Galaxy in their current form was from the 2008 but the characters go back
el_bryanto
Mar 2015
#2
omg -- i'd never heard of it so looked it up -- 2 or the 3 creators are dead, both under 50,
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#26
What about having a white guy play Green Lantern, when the most famous version of that
el_bryanto
Mar 2015
#18
Not exactly there is Kyle Katern and another major one and an old school Lantern
TheKentuckian
Mar 2015
#31
Stewart is meh, he was strong because he is a Green Lantern not because he was that great a GL
TheKentuckian
Mar 2015
#88
Because Marvel actually decided to model Fury after Jackson to troll him into playing Fury
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Mar 2015
#49
I think Rodriguez was misinterpreted: she understands the need for superheroes in all races
Wella
Mar 2015
#6
I don't know enough about the superhero world to know which ones are popular and which ones are not
Wella
Mar 2015
#15
When you're saying things on the fly, they often come out a little different than you intend
Wella
Mar 2015
#16
I guess it is true, but really, there are agents out there who can moderate views in such
CTyankee
Mar 2015
#19
Yes, but agents can't cover 100%. That's why they have PR people to smooth things over
Wella
Mar 2015
#20
I don't know but I think they can advise...if they are intuitive they know what to say to
CTyankee
Mar 2015
#21
Yes, they can advise, but they can't be everywhere at once and public figures say things on the fly
Wella
Mar 2015
#22
And shame on Zoe Saldana for stealing roles from green and blue people!
Baitball Blogger
Mar 2015
#13
Honey, get Hollywood to actually DO something with the black superheroes that already exist
Number23
Mar 2015
#40
She put the onus on minority creators who might not even be interested in writing the script
JustAnotherGen
Mar 2015
#62
Eh, it's done in comics all the time. Miss Marvel is currently a teenage Muslim girl.
Marr
Mar 2015
#41
Maybe some of us minorities are sick of the myth of the white superhero
taught_me_patience
Mar 2015
#81