livenews.com.au - 9/29/2008
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Acclaimed Australian director Rowan Woods had to fight to keep Oscar winner Forest Whitaker in his new film Winged Creatures after a film company executive dismissed the actor as "ugly, black and unbankable." Despite having "the hottest ensemble cast in town", including Guy Pearce, Kate ...
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Is Forest Whitaker “Ugly, Black and Unbankable”?
The Movie Blog —
... Turns out the film almost got sunk and that Whitaker was almost removed from the movie because one of the film studio’s originally behind the film thought that Whitaker was “ugly, black and unbankable”. This comes to us from the folks over at LiveNews: ...
FOREST WHITAKER REJECTED FOR BEING 'TOO BLACK...UGLY'
D.C.GIRL@THEMOVIES —
You think I'm playing? That I'm about to link to an article from The Onion? Think again. You know, I can understand racism. Fear and willful ignorance breeds hate, but the stupidity of allowing that to effect the quality of your product? That I just don't get. Green is color you'd think they'd be most concerned about. ...
“Diva” Dakota: Yay or Nay?
TheBadandUgly.com —
Alas, Dakota Fanning, I knew her not at all. In fact, the sweet charms of this little girl have never invaded my heart whether it be War of the Worlds, Uptown Girls or That Film Where She Gets Raped and Says the N-Word That Got No Distribution Because It Was All Hype and No Real Content. But Defamer caught word that Rowan Woods, director of Winged Creatures, was rather annoyed with the plucky starlet:
Woods said his high profile cast was a pleasure to work with except for teenage ...
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