Theatres need more plus-sized black actors, says Broadway and West End star
Marisha Wallace wants to inspire young girls and call out lack of diversity as she takes on role in Oklahoma!
Solid black bird who is actress says there should be more work for actresses who are solid black birds.
Never saw that one coming, did we? Despite her being difficult to miss……
as she takes on role in Oklahoma!
I’m not saying she’s fat, but she’s playing Oklahoma.
” I’m just a girl who an’t say no…”
I guess to doughnuts in her case.
I’m all for diversity.
Let’s get Shaft remade with a Frank Cannon lookalike as the lead.
/applause for Steve!
People will say we’re in love (with ourselves).
rarely saw people who looked like her on stage
Funny that,
Someone must generate more roles (rolls?) for fat birds, otherwise ‘snot fair!
Hattie Jacques and Dawn French were successful because they were/are talented, not because they were given a ‘fat pass’.
She can take on the Darlene Cates role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
Sorry, I misread that as Who’s.
Which does give an idea for a late night – very late night perhaps – TV show. Find someone called Gilbert, obvs. Then have masked contestants eat him – in that sexual sense – and the audience has to guess, live, who the contestant is. Phone in lines, charge for the texts etc. Make a fortune.
They’ll never guess Rudi Giuliani after all…
“I’m not saying she’s fat, but she’s playing Oklahoma.”
* Doffs cap *
Now that the zeitgeist insists that adverts be packed with black actresses a problem has emerged. There aren’t enough good-looking black actresses to go round. So they are using the plain, the homely, and the downright ugly.
Someone who watches more telly than me might be able to tell me whether there are signs of discrimination in casting between light-skinned “blacks” and “Ace of Spades” blacks. In the old days in the US that distinction was a big deal, enforced socially and even by at least one black-dominated trade union, and by lots of black showbiz impresarios.
I did once see a quotation from one black footballer that he couldn’t stand “lighties”. Mind you the problem could be solved by imposing strict race quotas on professional football – and amateur too, if needs be. Rugby could also impose race quotas on Pacific Islanders and South Africans. Why not?
David Mamet became a Republican years ago because of this kind of nonsense. He can easily continue to stage productions with “normal” casts and not go down with the ship. Next thing you know, Mamet dominates the Tony Awards.
And no, I’m not a bender. Just know things about Broadway.
Like Julia and BoM4 said.
Reminds me of a fuss that was once made about Gal Gadot playing Cleopatra. Evidently the Gyppos felt she should be portrayed by an Egyptian.
Boganboy,
I thought Cleopatra was Greek born. However, according to Carry on Cleo, she sounded as if she came from North London.
“rarely saw people who looked like her on stage“
Try looking underneath; they’ve probably crashed though it.
Penseivat
I think, in the good old days, the Greeks would have been outraged at being deemed the equivalent of a Macedonian barbarian.
But I agree that the bikinis made ‘Carry on Cleo’ the best.
She could presumably play the lead in “Madame Big-Butt-erfly”
(A bit late I know and shamelessly copied from todays Takimag).
Gal Gadot is at least efnickly the nearest thing to an Egyptian without being one. You could even argue her getting the part is some form of slavery reparations.
BiFR,
“I found out Natalie Portman is acting on Broadway. That’s the first time I ever jerked off to a production of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank.’”
—Gilbert Gottfried