Is Zoe Saldana bitter about her Nina Simone biopic being put on the back burner due to backlash from back community?
Zoe Saldana joins the multitude of ‘Black Latina’ women who once at the top after playing ‘ethnic roles’ their entire career no longer seem to identify as being black. Aw poor baby is confused. A ‘ real woman’ as she calls herself because she’s about to become a parent, the actress became a fav for movie goers as one of the first Latina’s to close the ethnicity gap between Dominicans and Puerto Rican culture for she is both.
However, what made her stand out was that she had brown skin with ‘ethnic’ features. Now she wants to dismiss the word forever, so that no other women with her composition makeup can enter her domain at the top of Hollywood? The word ethnic has been a plus for Zoe who has been cast in many more roles than her black counterparts who cannot list any ethnic ties during their auditions.
Ethnicity is something you just can’t fake. On the other hand, Zoe may be actually helping black woman to cast for more diverse roles with elimination of the word ethnic which would force hand producers to be much more direct on what kind of actress they are looking for roles.
Zoe’s angst the word ‘ethnic’ became evident after her most recent interview with Queen Latifah. Never once did Zoe refer to herself as a black woman, quite possibly pissing off her black fans, but she cleverly still got her message across about not wanting to be identified as a black woman by substituting the word ‘ethnic’ for black so it seems.
Zoe Saldana once said she was a proud black woman and was cast for the role of Nina Simone. Then the black community rejected her as being too light skin and surprisingly not fitting the image of Nina Simone even with excellent makeup. Now the film is being shopped at Cannes for distribution, but there is only one huge problem. Black ethnic culture is a big supporter of ethnic type characters and films at the Box Office. There is no getting around this fact, and so does Zoe want to throw away her black fan base who came out in droves to support her role in The Avengers as an action hero?
If the actress now wants to be identified as a Latina woman that is her choice, but what black actresses understand is that their popularity often stems from black people supporting their work initially before global success, and if that ever happens? The Alma Awards embraced Zoe Saldana as a Latina actress of which she attended and won awards, but Zoe has yet to win any Black Award nominations.
Despite the rejection of the black community she went on to star in other action flicks soon after without reference to any race and now an expected mom using her interviews to do what she calls educating others. Let’s just be clear what her black fans are thinking and that is, this chick got over pretending to be pro black or pro ethnic and now at the top with a lead voice over in The Book of Life, her ethnicity and blackness does not count and if it does we didn’t get the memo.
Regardless, good luck Zoe with the twins and ‘real womanhood.’ Zoe looks glowing, happy, successful, rich and very black on the Queen Latifah Show. Someone needs to tell Zoe there is nothing wrong with being a Black Latina.
Source:
http://ift.tt/1tMtjI8