She seems to have a lot of interracial roles on the screen.
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hmmmandyouare — 12 years ago(January 22, 2014 02:44 PM)
With roles in movies/tv, directors 1. have a person or persons in mind 2. after having auditions see that a person can play a role easier 3. have to choose someone based on availability
I'm about to say something controversialbut if you close your eyes and listen to Zoe talk or Tika Sumpteryou don't assume they are "urban" (major motion pictures tend to shy away from urban. They don't sound street. That's something that a white/black/latino can sound. Zoe has soft features as well. Once she played opposite Ashton Kutcher in Guess Whodirectors may have gonehmmmm, she can play those roles well. Also, those female roles she is playing (not Zahura) but the others were likely intended for white women. Obviously, the actresses desired when the scripts were written either couldn't play the role or Zoe impressed them OR they wrote the character for herit happens. I think because she can look exoticit attracts people to her and she's a pretty good actress AND she was a part of one of the biggest grossing films EVER. That doesn't hurt. lol -
Zorina-xo — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 06:36 PM)
I agree with you. One or two roles, I'll let her slide. But every single movie she is doing is with a white guy, and not only that it's very in your face roles and very intimate, and she's taking roles that should be given to black women, not hispanic women.
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girl1015 — 12 years ago(February 06, 2014 06:59 PM)
Zoe Saldana has to be cast in a movie opposite white men because if her love interest would be black it would turn into a black movie. Studios are aware of what kind of demographic they are looking for as well as the type of audience they want in the theater so having her be opposite a white male means that more white people will see the movie simple as that.
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MrSuave56 — 11 years ago(October 03, 2014 08:00 PM)
Good points there,hmmmandy,isn't that what we want from our actors to be believable with white or black actors.Zoe being a black Latina,has crossed-over in the movies.She also won't do Tyler Perry type movies.Hollywood is a white dominated place,not racist.It's because of Halle and Zoe that the doors have opened for other black actresses.
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Obeah1 — 11 years ago(October 05, 2014 12:17 PM)
Your point is not racist. Zoe has only had white male love interests in her movies (except for 2: Drumline and Nina (biopic of Nina S2000imone). There are a mixture of reasons, some of which have been mentioned already.
- She's a crossover actress, taking roles meant for white actresses.
On the other hand, she even has white love interests in "black" movies (Death at a Funeral). There was no need for her love interest in that movie to be white. There is also "Colombiana" where she had a white love interest (no need, really, since the love interest appeared for 10 minutes in the movie, and does not play a crucial role). - I think Saldana prefers white men (in real life) but also purposely goes after roles that cast her opposite white men. This is also combined with point #1.
Even Halle Berry, who, it can be argued, was, at her peak, more established than Saldana (Halle has Oscar, Golden Globes and Emmy, carried movies on her own and was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood), has had black male love interests in her movies. She didn't just star opposite white men, and she dated black men in real life, too.
As I said. 1. Zoe gets roles meant for white females, and 2. Zoe has a preference for white men (in real life and on screen).
Beauty will save the worldDostoevsky. [wink]
- She's a crossover actress, taking roles meant for white actresses.
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activista — 11 years ago(January 08, 2015 01:11 PM)
@Kebrazza
How do you figure she's taking roles "meant" for white actresses, as if she dosen't deserves those same roles, no matter how hard she works? She's just as talented an actress as anyone out therethat's why she's getting the good roles she's getting. She was also in one of the biggest-ever box office hits in the last decadeAVATARso that's another reason she's getting roles. I do question why she supposedly seems to have a preference for white boys,thoughthat is questionable,though, even though she's now married to one. I mean,hell, even in her ROSEMARY'S BABY TV specialwhich she producedher love interest was white. I was like, "WTF!? She couldn't have gotten someone besides a white boy to play the part? I mean,c'mon!" Hell, even in the remake of the Brit comedy DEATH AT A FUNERAL, both her character's husband and her ex were played by white dudesin an all-black cast filmthat was pretty strange in itself. -
MariMcCabe — 11 years ago(January 12, 2015 10:49 PM)
I think what they meant to say was (but worded poorly) she can play roles that aren't race specified / would normally go to a white actress.
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Fusion72 — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 10:08 PM)
Firstly, nothing you said sounded racist. But you heavily prefacing it made me suspicious.
Sadly, its a result of Hollywood standards. They don't want to promote Black & Black relationships. Mixed relations, kind of has an additional benefit that says 'they're okay with it'. But to be honest, I don't think Zoldana counts; She's mixed and it's not hard to see.
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enterthejoker — 11 years ago(December 26, 2014 02:15 PM)
I've said this here before, but it's not just about race, it's about money. The studios are out to make money, and the highest demographic of movie goers happens to be white males. Sex sells, so females that are attractive to the largest demographic of movie goers are going to get roles (how have the Megan Fox and Jessica Alba types built careers otherwise?). Zoe Saldana is considered sexy and highly attractive by white males, despite not being white herself. It also helps that she is considered a good actress and can thus be more than just eye candy.
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MariMcCabe — 10 years ago(November 11, 2015 08:48 PM)
Actors don't really have much of a say on the race of their love interest.
she comes off as a card carrying bed wench.
A "bed wench" was a slave woman who was raped by her slave owners. This new phenomenon of trying to equate consensual relationships between black women and white men to freaking slavery is creepy. And hypocritical. -
ScrystaLz — 10 years ago(November 17, 2015 07:00 AM)
wow you sound so bitter, take a chill pill, what has Zoe ever done to you? It's so sad that some people have so much hate in them for a person they don't even know personally.
And FYI, Zoe has paired up with black actors on-screen before, several times actually, so it's not like she would only pair up with white guysand has it ever crossed your mind that she chooses roles that she wants and likes to play, and not what color skin her co-stars have? Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe it's just coincidence that most of the actors she pairs up with are white? FYI sometimes actors don't even meet each other until they start shooting for a movie or TV series, so sometimes they won't even know who their co-stars are until they meet on the set when filming starts. I believe Zoe mainly just chooses roles that interests her and ones that she personally wants to playalot of the times she probably wouldn't know who her co-stars are until she meets them.
And she has Hispanic heritage, she's Latina afterall and has lived in the Dominican Republic for many years, so of course she has a Spanish accent, I have some Spanish friends and they all say her accent is authentic. Are you Spanish or Latino? If not then how would you know her accent is "fake"? You might not like her voice but that doesn't mean her accent is fake.
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groovlife — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 03:18 PM)
she did black face while playing nina. and shes a bed wench. that's what she did
what a dumb remark, you are posting the SAME crazy stupid things this board is full of, and YOU are dangerous and racist. Educate yourself about what BLACKFACE REALLY IS. -
ThoseLittleRabbits — 9 years ago(August 13, 2016 08:25 AM)
black face is making your skin darker in order to look like someone else this fool not only darken her skin but had a fake nose put on her. shouldnt you be on chimpout anyway
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners
http://melanoidnation.org/white-man-warns-all-black -
MariMcCabe — 9 years ago(August 13, 2016 05:06 PM)
A black person cannot do blackface. Blackface was when white performers would wear black (literal black) face paint with red lips. A black person wearing a darker shade of brown foundation is NOT blackface in any sense.
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ThoseLittleRabbits — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 04:14 PM)
a shade of brown? she put coats of black make up to make herself darker and put on a fake nose, instead of getting an actual dark skin actress to play nina. black people have said it was black face and colorism, so it's black face!!
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners
http://melanoidnation.org/white-man-warns-all-black