Samuel L Jackson beef with black British actors over Get Out

Does Samuel L Jackson have beef with black British actors? The comments came during a Hot 97 interview with Ebro about british actor Daniel Kaluuya playing an American man in an interracial relationship in the movie Get Out.

[@breea07]

No one said that black brits don't experience racism, HOWEVER the black British and black American experience is not the same experience and that matters. Just as the experience of black Brazilians and black Panamanians is not the same. Just because we all have black skin, does not mean that we inherently relate to one another. Culture is important. Sam Jackson never said Brits can't play Americans. What he said was that there seems to be an overall awe with black brits in hollywood. That isn't a lie, see literally any mainstream movie about the black AMERICAN experience made in the last five years. The main character is very rarely, if ever an American black man. Key and Peele did a great sketch about this very thing years ago and no one was mad at them for it, but somehow Sam Jackson is in the wrong?

[@breea07]

BigboiFCN GWOP this has nothing to do with the overall experience of being black. We know racism is everywhere and he didn't say otherwise. He was pondering on the lack of African Americans chosen to act in roles that depict the African American experience. Black Brits can not inherently connect with the experience on more than a superficial level just as the same is true for black American playing British parts. You see white people mad all the time about Meryl Streep playing Thatcher or Angelina Jolie having an accent that is foreign to her etc. This is the same principle. In the particular movie SJ was talking about, the director himself said that he did not want to cast a British actor for the role at all, but only decided to after having a long conversation with him to make sure he understood everything that went into it from an African American perspective.

[@TENINCHLUVABOY]

African Americans are protecting their street cred to showcase the "struggle" of being with a white woman .Lol

[@eon001]

breea07 You're right. All black people around the world have a different black experience. But this is a movie, not a real life personal account. It's just acting. Something Sam Jackson should know about considering he is an actor. Did he have a problem with Morgan Freeman playing Nelson Mandela, Or Forrest Whitaker playing Idid Amin?

[@sonja0707]

BRUCE LEEROY THE REAL McCOY I don't know what you call different but black Americans and black English or black Patricia whatever you want to call us at the end of the day we're still black and we do get the same treatment let me tell you something Black Britons are more suppressed and black Americans because what you will find in America you will not find in Britain Britain has got a longer history than America so therefore they are prepared to protect that and they do that by underhanded unseen racism institutionalised racism so don't you ever think for once that we don't suffer as much as you lot in America because we do the Education is not built for Blacks the job opportunities are not built for Blacks working in the city even if you are educated and talented and skilled doesn't mean that you get a full fill and happy joy working because you're still facing rancorous people who won on black racism is a rampant in Britain just some people choose to try and go above it or deal with it in their own way maybe by playing a certain game are pretending that it's just not there but don't think for once that we don't face racism yes and we get killed by cops 2 obviously black Americans only know about their own they don't know about Britain they don't know what we Face they don't know what our parents place coming from the Caribbean or Africa so don't think for once that we are better off in England cuz we're not name any charge or police officer the top leaders that you have in England there white the government do councils they are all white white people in this country do not allow blacks to get high positions unless we are licking their ass

[@jasminepearls1047]

most black Brits are recent immigrants thats a huge difference.

[@onecoolben7]

Sound engineer needed.....

[@yoshidadaimyo3507]

It's weird but I've watched several videos where Black Brits are comparing racism in the UK with racism in the US and they are almost always saying (seems like they are bragging really) that they are so happy to be living in the UK because racism there is so much less and they rarely ever have to think about the fact that they are Black. And I've also seen Africans and Brits in America say the opposite that in America racism is so pervasive that you are never given a chance to forget you're Black here. Yet when someone suggest that an actor from Britain may not be well equipped to play a role dealing with American racism you get all offended.

[@Monaedeezy]

George Grier true story. On this topic and so many others.

[@riccorich]

the echoes over shadow the convo

[@Kilamanjaro009]

It's just a movie, black british actors have played in american roles before, and it's not just black actors.

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

But is ok for Samuel Jackson to wear a kilt and play a Scot in the film the 51st State?

[@godessmaat9227]

Forrest Whittaker played an English soldier and black Brits complained.

[@Smitty753]

you guys blowing this way out of proportion. all Samuel Jackson said that he want to see a American black actor play Little League in this movie. in some ways he gives you guys more credit because you're up has been way more Progressive in interracial dating then the US has been. yes is racism all around the world but American racism is really different from English racism. in my opinion all the other stuff about American saying that were better than y'all is not relevant to the topic that's just a whole nother conversation.

[@WatchHeadsRoll]

The problem is, he didn't need to add all of that disrespectful fluff about Black British actors being cheap, and making dismissive assumptions about race relations in the UK. He could've simply said that an African American actor would give a more authentic portrayal of an African American character. It's as simply as that. I do not see how his comments are defendable to some people. Black British actors are cheaper? Then the problem lies with the American actors who do not accept the roles. You have to work your way up from the bottom.

[@darylsledge8896]

Heads Will Roll ok! As an African American, I can respect your comment.

[@MissMeMe343]

We kinda been working our way up for the past 100 years. Why do think foreign blacks are able to come there at all?

[@xxlaumic]

@@MissMeMe343 When Obama got elected, you didn't have that energy knowing he was the son of an AFRICAN IMMIGRANT. How convenient

[@callumelcombe4543]

You guys should upload the audio as a podcast

[@jakefabian]

This is why snips is my guy, large up the Griselda Boys

[@fishnet-lv4tz]

I tend to wonder how the role would have been portrait by an American Actor. An the point is being missed that a certain type of marginalization was waged upon people brought to America for slavery, because I personally have no idea of being black in Britain. Slavery and the trauma it left behind is the point.

[@xxlaumic]

OK but you have no problem playing OUR Heores. Such as Mandela, Steven Biko... When Cheadle played in Hotel Rwanda it sat well with you right? Hypocrisy

[@SabeloMathe]

Don't get how bkchat gets more views than this, bkchats full of dumb people talking about nonsense but here we have people talking sense on serious topics, these videos need way more support

[@yesiamajamaican6868]

I get annoyed if I see Africans playing West Indians

[@xxlaumic]

But there's no problem when Black American actors play African Heores right? Fuck outta here

[@andrewvill3591]

Wirdo

[@ybuzz]

Accurate af

[@sugexxx1179]

Samuel L Jackson made an ignorant divisive comment. It's acting btw.

[@TheNoviceOAO]

coach carter was good sam j film

[@jklhjkhjl]

england had slaves yes but they were the irish not the blacks we sent the vast majority to south america and the Caribbean and america

[@mmichels3662]

Stop your nonsense. No Irish were enslaved period. Some Irish were sent to the new world as indebted servants, this means that they were sentenced to work for an amount of time and after that time regained their full freedom!

[@icilmaa]

How was Britain able to industrialise itself? Through slavery. Kidnapping Africans and forcing them into slave labour. Britain would be nothing without their involvement of people trafficking.

[@2damecuteUK]

ozza lowes I think you need to re-read a British history book because the British empire was built by slavery. Please don't be ignorant and Make non-factual statements.

[@2damecuteUK]

Son those same Irish/Scottish workers were still treated better then black slaves, because they didn't even treat black people as human beings. There treatment was justified through dehumanisation and claimed as property. Taken from there homeland Chained together on boats to be sold. Children were sold and raped. That is the history of the Britain empire.

[@Adwoa_Agyei]

The blacks is such a disrespectful term. Racist

[@Smitty753]

the guy in the red is wrong most of the black activist artist musicians did not come from the Caribbean there are people from the Caribbean that has contribute to Black American culture and yes there's a lot of them but not most of them and I know Marcus Garvey is Jamaican and DJ Kool herc and also Jamaican who created hip hop but there's a lotta other black people from the mainland Americans that have created a lot and black culture.