Someone on the birls community. Because I said that Beyonce was a little too sunkissed to play pasty Victorian showgirl in the remake of Tipping the Velvet.
Goodness - what part was she supposed to be playing ?(because I suppose she could just about get away with the Keeley Hawes role if you are going for historical veracity - but not the other part really, she being a winkle picker from Kent or something.)
I am researching Victorian music hall performers for this novel thing I am writing and I can't remember her name, but there was one famous black female music hall artist at the turn of the century. And a few Americans. So I suppose it's sort of feasible.
Race aside I can't see either of those being particularly convincing in any sort of period movie (I can just about picture them in the 20s or 30s - but anything before that is going to be one hell of a stretch) - they are both entirely too shiny and modern-seeming.
Racist is Angelina Jolie playing the part of a mixed race woman in her new film, when there are plenty of talented mixed race actresses who wouldn't need to be blacked up for the part. Hollywood is crazy, I tell you! Crazy!
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on 2006-11-12 05:24 pm (UTC)I am researching Victorian music hall performers for this novel thing I am writing and I can't remember her name, but there was one famous black female music hall artist at the turn of the century. And a few Americans. So I suppose it's sort of feasible.
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on 2006-11-12 05:25 pm (UTC)And being directed by Sofia Coppola. O_o
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on 2006-11-12 04:25 pm (UTC)Lesbians: some of them just want to find prejudice in everything.
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