re: Samuel L. Jackson: Black British Actors Are Stealing All of Our Roles

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British Actors Are Stealing All of Our Roles

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Fixed it.

And they are. I don't know what is going on? Are they cheaper - not part of a union - is Hollywood filming most movies in London?

Because from the Star Wars reboots to everything on TV and Netflix originals.

It's all fricking Brits.

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A serious backlash has started in America, with film-making heavyweights such as the actor and producer Michael Douglas and the director Spike Lee calling for an urgent rethink in the industry.

The resistance movement has been growing since January when Richard Hicks, president of the Casting Society of America, pointed out that a search for new faces had become an epidemic.

“I went to see a movie,” he told Entertainment Weekly “and four casting directors were sitting around talking about, ‘What’s up with all the Brits and Australian actors snagging all the leads?

In the American magazine the Atlantic last week the film critic Terrence Rafferty argued that homegrown young men had lost the ability to take acting seriously. “Crisis or not, this is getting embarrassing,” he wrote.’”

There had been an earlier suggestion that perhaps British actors came cheaper than their US counterparts, but this was shot down when it emerged that Laurie was paid $18m (£11.5m) for his stint in the medical drama House.

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