{"id":187077,"date":"2019-08-20T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/david-oyelowo-backs-black-british-actress-playing-harriet-tubman"},"modified":"2019-08-20T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:11:26","slug":"david-oyelowo-backs-black-british-actress-playing-harriet-tubman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/david-oyelowo-backs-black-british-actress-playing-harriet-tubman","title":{"rendered":"David Oyelowo Backs Black British Actress Playing Harriet Tubman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-110329\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">        \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n        \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"28.4425256341\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"60.7430555556\">\n<section id=\"cb-41e578a5f16bf51f95f91f54fc757611\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"w-100\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive-item\">\n<div id=\"video-player-103fc8d7-6400-50e0-aa2c-2248ee714ef3-2117745887-image-holder\" class=\"video-block-image-holder vilynx_enabled vilynx_audiopolicycta vilynx_hidectaicon\" data-vilynx-id=\"www.tmz.com\/videos\/082019-david-oyelowo-4617125-0-w2qvjxfc\">\n              <button class=\"embed-responsive-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-103fc8d7-6400-50e0-aa2c-2248ee714ef3-2117745887-play-btn\"><br \/><span class=\"sr-only\">Play video content<\/span><br \/><\/button><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/David-Oyelowo-Backs-Black-British-Actress-Playing-Harriet-Tubman.jpg\"\/><span class=\"media-swipe video-block__media-swipe\">Exclusive<\/span>\n                                        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>              <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">Red Pill Podcast<\/span>\n          <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-5256cf906c17a51593718a147ff66688\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"33\">\n<p><strong>David Oyelowo<\/strong> has no issue with a black, British actress playing an iconic African-American like <strong>Harriet Tubman<\/strong> \u2014 despite lacking roots to American slavery \u2014 because acting is acting.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-845d1df55219bd84bb745875689fdb67\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"41.5460526316\">\n<p>Yes, you could say the British actor was just defending the home team, but the discussion about <strong>Cynthia Erivo<\/strong>\u2018s casting as Tubman has some personal relevance for David. Remember, he played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/martin-luther-king-jr\/\"><strong>MLK<\/strong><\/a> in the Oscar-winning film, \u201cSelma\u201d \u2014 so he tackled the Tubman issue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/van-lathan\/\"><strong>Van Lathan<\/strong><\/a> on \u2018The Red Pill Podcast.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-eb4c0b919b4f90ef0f6b4d101bcd23e4\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"36\">\n<p>David said he doesn\u2019t understand the controversy, and in the most gracious way possible (it\u2019s that British accent) added \u2026 an actor\u2019s background shouldn\u2019t matter, if he or she gets the job done.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-50d84452956a260fc8d5c4883fa4f603\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"31\">\n<p>The debate around the Tubman movie is that critics think it\u2019s an insult a slap in the face to not have an African-American woman in a role that has so much cultural significance.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-20521481b527d1d8288a1acb0260a93b\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink \"\/>\n<section id=\"cb-d55b7c14d602a9582210e53fe2a3e3e0\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"31.6789667897\">\n<p>David did raise an interesting counterpoint \u2014 about Americans playing Brits \u2014 and also white British actors playing American roles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/daniel-day-lewis\/\"><strong>Daniel Day-Lewis<\/strong><\/a> as <strong>Abraham Lincoln<\/strong>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/christian-bale\/\"><strong>Christian Bale<\/strong><\/a> as <strong>Dick Cheney<\/strong>. David wondered where was the outrage when those movies were cast??<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-edbdd8d12676bc2ef2c3d05dfd7ee5b2\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"31\">\n<p>He suggests there\u2019s a \u201cfight for the scraps\u201d mentality in the black community that divides fellow actors instead of bringing them together. Watch the clip \u2026 thought provoking for sure.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-17ef8e0a99fd0fc4d093fd0d54c72283\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \" readability=\"26.0588235294\">\n<p>And, check out Van and David\u2019s full convo on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/redpillpodcast\"><strong>T<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/redpillpodcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>he Red Pill<\/strong><\/a>\u2018 podcast.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/08\/20\/david-oyelowo-supports-british-black-actress-harriet-tubman-role\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/david-oyelowo-backs-black-british-actress-playing-harriet-tubman\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play video contentExclusive Red Pill Podcast David Oyelowo has no issue with a black, British actress playing an iconic African-American like Harriet Tubman \u2014 despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}