Christian Bale is tired of 'white dudes' calling the shots

[Mark Antony]

I get some people feel that way but it really doesn't make sense. Things start with discussions, whether the topic is obvious to you or not.



And asking someone to give up their job is unreasonable, especially given he doesn't control the casting.

 

[IATT]

If only he felt this way when filming exodus..

 

[DCAllAfrican]

I get some people feel that way but it really doesn't make sense. Things start with discussions, whether the topic is obvious to you or not.



And asking someone to give up their job is unreasonable, especially given he doesn't control the casting.

You say it starts with a discussion, what have we been doing already for the last 500 years?

 

[Mark Antony]

You say it starts with a discussion, what have we been doing already for the last 500 years?

A whole lot of the same "it doesn't matter" actually. Start implies the beginning, clearly you want to rollover to action at that point but we're conditioned to be hopeless and tune out at that stage while simultaneously still doing nothing to effect that 'obvious' point silent or loud. Social media gives us a platform now to keep the conversation going or even hold folks like Christian to task instead of just saying "whatever".

 

[RustyShackleford]

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[stuntman mike]

DO something about it.

did you vote in the 2016 presidential election?

 

[shogun]

Homie played Moses in that exodus movie lol

moses was a hebrew in egypt. So yeah, I guess he did play an african.

Bale ain’t turning down any roles so a person of color can get that role though.

Why should he turn down a role? The casting director should do their job.

 

[Top Boy]

Yeah it's a bit tricky. Reminds me of Leo speaking out against global warming but dude owns Yachts the size of football fields and privately flies in Brazilian models to smash in the US.

Few men on this planet i'd rather be than myself...

Leo is one of them, mans is a God and has knocked off more bad **** than Zeus

Not a metric exist in which Leo is not winning.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

did you vote in the 2016 presidential election?

No, I didn't.

I don't trust the process, at all

 

[Master Zik]

Nice to hear a white guy call for non-white bosses.

Lets see if he ever puts that desire in to action.

@ the lot of you not knowing Bale is British.

 

[kdslittlebro]

did you vote BEFORE the 2016 presidential election?

 

[kdawg]

Idris Elba blew my mind. I really thought dude was from Brooklyn or something.
Eleven from Stranger Things.
I found out Gary Oldman was a Brit about 2 years ago.

The one that got me recently was the kid from Spider-Man - it was only when I saw him give an interview in his natural English accent that I realised.

 

[Grine]

who else got accents
u didnt expect to have one

I didn’t know this..
Found out Hugh Jackman was Australian last month

Dominic West from the Wire.

 

[Mark Antony]

Funny I found out Dominic had an accent back when I used to work in a call center and he called in.

 

[4one5]

The one that really blew my mind was Rick from TWD.

 

[fluid hips]

I remember the outrage when the casting for the Exodus movie was revealed

 

[whatscomplex]

There have been white actors (or at least one instance that I know of) who've given up their role after backlash. Ed Skrein gave up a role in Hellboy after getting some backlash.