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Why is he always cast in roles portraying dark skin men like there aren’t tons of black actors that would make more sense for the role?

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Deadline Hollywood

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Mar 4, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Will Smith is poised to play Richard Williams, father of tennis icons Serena and Venus Williams deadline.com/2019/03/will-s

12:42 AM · Mar 5, 2019

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Not to mention but he does not have the fucking range...

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@transplant_mind

Mar 5, 2019

He's not black enough for them now, lol.

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Ladies and Gentlemen we've hit peak wokeness. Black actors can't play black people now 🤣

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I think Idris is proof it wouldn’t matter cause if y’all want authenticity, Richard was never as fine as Idris.

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I would say Don Cheadle then but that would now be me calling Don ugly and I ain't doing that. Will is a great actor and the complaints of him not being dark enough feel incredibly reaching to me.

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Because he is a top box office draw and Hollywood is a business--or is that too obvious?

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Denzel. Obviously.

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You use colorist (a real concept) in exactly the opposite way. Colorism is hiring lighter black people instead of darker black people. Don Cheadle, Michael K Williams, and Idris Elba are darker and better actors.