Ridley Scott’s Reason For Whitewashing
The new Moses movie, Exodus: Gods and Kings has gotten a lot of criticism for casting white actors Aaron Paul, Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, and John Turturro in a movie set in Egypt. The biggest complaints regard the make-up applied to Edgarton, Turturro, and Weaver, claiming Ridley Scott was participating in a version of black face.
During press for the movie this week, Scott responded to criticism explaining to a writer for Variety:
“I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.”
An interesting example of very public political incorrectness from Scott, who seems more like a racist old man down the street than A List Hollywood director. But you have to wonder, who told Scott, Joel Edgarton was a big money name?
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