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Black male actors with white female actresses
Will Smith was quoted in this article to say that Hollywood is still sqimish having the black male having a love scene with a white female. That ol' mandingo complex....
Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 8:36:17 PM by freedom44
Will Smith claims he was forbidden from kissing Cameron Diaz on screen because of American racism.
The actor said Hollywood panders to the nation's problem of seeing a black man and white woman getting intimate and stopped the co-stars kissing in new movie 'Hitch'. To avoid controversy, Smith says he smooched Latin beauty Eva Mendes instead. The 36-year-old 'Men in Black' star said: "How are you not going to consider Cameron Diaz? ..............
As I look back in movies with interracial love themes, most seem to shy away from black male/white female.....but have no problem with white male/ black female.
Have anyone ever scene A-Listers like Jolie, Johansen, Theron, Julia Roberts or Fox ever do a full out sex scene with a black man? (A-Lister not necessarily meaning in talent. But in appeal) If there is a relationship, it's kinda "hinted" at. But no real "full out" expression of it.
Conversely, the black A-List females have more love or sex scenes with white men.....
Does Will Smith have a point?? Is there still some squimishness of behalf of Hollywood on this?
There are taboos in another area of entertainment, the threesome. It's been perfectly acceptable to show on screen a one male, two female scenario. But, it's a big no no to show the one female, two male scenario. I think nip/tuck and grey's anatomy were the only two to explore this, but they were shown in the context of a daydream rather than "real life". But perhaps that's a topic for another discussion.
There are taboos in another area of entertainment, the threesome. It's been perfectly acceptable to show on screen a one male, two female scenario. But, it's a big no no to show the one female, two male scenario. I think nip/tuck and grey's anatomy were the only two to explore this, but they were shown in the context of a daydream rather than "real life". But perhaps that's a topic for another discussion.
But even in Grey's , Isaiah Washington's character was with the Asian woman.
Will Smith claims he was forbidden from kissing Cameron Diaz on screen because of American racism.
The actor said Hollywood panders to the nation's problem of seeing a black man and white woman getting intimate and stopped the co-stars kissing in new movie 'Hitch'. To avoid controversy, Smith says he smooched Latin beauty Eva Mendes instead. The 36-year-old 'Men in Black' star said: "How are you not going to consider Cameron Diaz? ..............
Cameron Diaz is half Cuban, hence also "Latin beauty". Let's face it: if you are half-black, you are called 'black', so I guess half-Latins are also 'Latin'. Eva Mendez was born in Miami to Cuban parents (both Cuban).
Is white-latin couple considered interracial? How about black-latin?
Cameron Diaz is half Cuban, hence also "Latin beauty". Let's face it: if you are half-black, you are called 'black', so I guess half-Latins are also 'Latin'. Eva Mendez was born in Miami to Cuban parents (both Cuban).
Is white-latin couple considered interracial? How about black-latin?
An Obama is half white. But we call him the fitrst black President.
Diaz loks caucasian and has always being considered a such. Which is why
Smith had this issue.
Do you see a slight tilt to one side on these on-screen relationships?
On the flip side of the coin,...some black women are still to this day upset with Will Smith and other black male actors for having love scenes or romantic relationships on screen with non-black female actors. Him and Wesley Snipes are two of the main ones they mentioned. I'll try to find the article.
https://wbai.org/index.php?option=co...=5628&Itemid=2
In a recent New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof asks when Hollywood will release a major motion picture in which a Black man and white woman fall in love. Kristof raises an interesting point, but we feel his complaint misses the real problem, which is that Hollywood has shown a frustrating reluctance toward depicting romance between Black men and Black women.
Kristof’s citing of Denzel Washington by way of example is particularly illustrative.
In his last twelve movies dating back to the year 1998, Denzel -– the most popular Black film actor in American history -– has been romantically paired with a Black woman lead exactly once. In "The Manchurian Candidate," "Man on Fire," "Antwone Fisher," "Remember the Titans," "The Hurricane," "The Bone Collector," "The Siege," and "Fallen" Denzel has no major romantic partner at all. Likewise the films "Courage Under Fire," "Virtuosity," "Crimson Tide," "The Pelican Brief," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Ricochet," "Heart Condition," "Glory," "Power," "A Soldier’s Story," and "Carbon Copy."
In "Bone Collector" and "Pelican Brief" Denzel is paired with a white female lead (Angelina Jolie and Julia Roberts, respectively) who, though single, attractive, and facing classic Hollywood ‘woman-in-peril-looking-for-knight-in-shining-armor’ scenarios, managed not to "hook up" with the handsome Washington throughout their respective films.
In "John Q," his character is married to a Black woman played by Kimberly Elise, with whom he shares little in the way of romance throughout the suspense/drama. In "Manchurian Candidate," Elise plays a strange friend-like character who invites Denzel to stay in her apartment for an indefinite period. It is never even alluded to in the movie whether she has "relations" with him.
In "Training Day," Denzel’s girlfriend is played by Latina actress Eva Mendes (also cited by Kristof in his column for being paired with Will Smith in this year’s "Hitch"). Note how far Hollywood had to go to pull this pairing off: Mendes’s character is the only person in her entire neighborhood who is not Black. Where in the world they imported her from to drop her into this film’s Black ghetto is beyond us.
In "MississippiMasala" Denzel falls for an Indian woman.
In the thriller "Out of Time" Denzel has a romantic affair with a married character played by Black actress Sanaa Lathan. By the end of the film, Lathan has double-crossed Denzel, who begins to show rekindled interest in his colleague and ex-wife, played by…Eva Mendes.
In "He Got Game," his character falls for a white prostitute. You have to go to "The Preacher’s Wife" -– nine years and 13 movies ago –- to find Denzel in a traditional Hollywood romantic pairing with a Black lead actress (Whitney Houston).
There was some sex/love scenes in Love & Basketball...The Wood...the Best Man...Brown Sugar...I think I love my wife...Baby Boy...Boomerang (although that's pretty old) Disappearing Acts...Soul Food...The Brothers...all of those were black leads.
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