I guess so. I really did think this is how casting always went though.
Racist casting call for "Straight Outta Compton" movie
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I guess so. I really did think this is how casting always went though.
Our company made its reputation by finding background actors that others could not.
- When Steven Spielberg wanted Hasidic Jews who played soccer, we found them in a day.
- When Gore Verbinski needed each and every pirate to look unique for Pirates of the Carribean, we scoured islands by schooner, canoe and Jet-ski to book them.
- When David Fincher has to nail down a time period in his films, we go through thousands of pictures to achieve his vision.
- When Gary Gray needed poor, out of shape black women we fucked up.
*sigh* This casting call is racist and and practically encourage the fact that skinny women are better than non skinny women.
Really damaging if you ask me.
It's clearly a ranking system.
Really damaging if you ask me.
It's clearly a ranking system.
Devolution
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What
Wendel Clark
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life aint nothin but bitches and money
……forgetit
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They're just being blunt with it, every casting call does this with female extras, just with more coded wording, fucked up, but it's Hollywood.
don't act like you're surprised
Gordon Shumway
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I'm sure these actors will be used for different scenes with different crowds. They probably want hot model-types for club scenes, hot video hoes for music vid scenes, and then the fat ugly ones for other shit.
I'm sorry they didn't have one giant casting call with no requirements.
Devolution
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You shitting me? This is the NWA movie, right? So you think when they're hanging out with models, that includes the uggos?
The Technomancer
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Ohhh my head this thread
so by "uggos", you mean dark-skinned women?
because if you haven't actually read the OP, that's part of how they're sorting women.
by skin color.
TelluricTokoro
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My beautiful black women deserve more love than this.
Seeing these kinds of things makes my heart hurt. This mentality is real, and causes tons of issues within the black community.
Seeing these kinds of things makes my heart hurt. This mentality is real, and causes tons of issues within the black community.
Devolution
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And according to this casting call the uggos are defined by skin color.
Why read when you can devil's advocate all over the place I guess.
……forgetit
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I'll once again add, the racial component is majorly fucked up, and the rating system is equally so, but they would have divided them into these groups after casting anyway if it was open. Hollywood is fucked up people, think of the last movie you say that even had overweight extras, there aren't many. Ship's fucked up and needs to change, but I'm not gonna act remotely surprised by this casting call.
Yeah, I did read it. Perhaps it racist but it's ground in reality, and it's not as if David Duke wrote up the fucking thing.
Half the songs I hear talk about preferring light skinned women.
you sure you dont mean something else when you say uggos
EscoBlades
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PhoenixDark
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The ironic thing is that this is how many films and music videos are cast. Dark skinned women are considered ugly or undesirable while lighter skinned women are put on a pedestal. This is also prevalent in rap lyrics and among many black people. I can't even imagine the mental anguish a lot of dark skinned women go through growing up. The self hate that can develop is pretty sad. Not to mention the self hate about natural black hair and the ridiculous weave movement.
When Kendrick Lamar was on set to do his video for Poetic Justice, the line of "video vixens" was 99% light skinned black chicks. He said fuck it and selected a random darker black chick who was on set to be the main female in the video instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyr2gEouEMM
When Kendrick Lamar was on set to do his video for Poetic Justice, the line of "video vixens" was 99% light skinned black chicks. He said fuck it and selected a random darker black chick who was on set to be the main female in the video instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyr2gEouEMM
almost all of those models are cute/pretty though. I guess ugly just means alternative or punk.
edit: oh wait, they have them in rankings of 1-4, and "specials" lol.
Pretty sure.
clearacell
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Seems like they are casting for a certain look. I would not cast Brad Pitt in the babe Ruth biopic. Seems like typical Hollywood to me.
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This was going to be my big break. Thanks a lot, PC America.
Nealand Liquor
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Yeah, that's not right. Sure there is nothing wrong with wanting to cast all types of people from fit and hot to fat and ugly, but that's not how you go about it. When we've wanted a solid cross section of actors we usually place an open casting call fot all races, ages and fitness levels. Shit even when you place an ad for in shape actors you still get a good 20% of obese applicants.
It's not who they want to cast that is the issue (except that apparently only very dark people can be ugly) it is how they went about it that is most of the issue.
I'm sure there was a line around the block for "Precious" auditions. Imagine how that casting call read, lol. I imagine if you're an actor/actress this type of bluntness in what they are looking for isn't that unusual.
triplestation
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Uhh
Blood Red Sky
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Weird, isn't it?
Hahaha.
This casting call was meant to make their lives easier, letting the actors do the sorting before the casting agents manually put them in the A B C D Z categories behind closed doors. We're just seeing the normally hidden attitude displayed for all to see. The image machine works in such a bubble.
speculawyer
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Oh come on. Film is a visual medium and the artists are looking for specific things to fulfill their artistic vision.
You can't hire a bunch of Chinese people to film 'Straight Outta Compton"
You can't hire a bunch of Chinese people to film 'Straight Outta Compton"
clearacell
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What if they didn't assign "grades" to them? 4 separate casting calls but with basically the same outcome? I remember the game of thrones episode with all the *ugly* daughters...how was that casting call?
There are also fat, ugly light skin chicks, why decide that the only type of black woman capable of being fat and ugly are dark skin?
That's the problem with this casting.
Phat Michael
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Man... That's fucked. Imagine someone stopping you in the street saying you should be a model and they'd like to represent you... Then you get THAT Business card.
CarpeDeezNutz
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I thought the same thing looking at the 1 tier girls, until I saw what else was up, their height lol that's the "ugly" factor I guess.
hahaha
It really does have to fuck with your self esteem.
or could you...
Phat Michael
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I wonder if they cast cb4 this way.
I don't see how this casting call is racist at all. The 'A' tier girls includes 'black', which is of course African American. The C and D girls would be reflective of Compton itself. How is this racist? I don't see it at all.
I studied Performing Arts, and it's true that some casting calls are racist as fuck, but this is definitely not one of them. It's just a movie with a lot of poor black people in it.
There are talent agencies that specialize in it, they have a pool of ugly/weird actors.
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