Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has inked to star in the movie about a true-life tale of a teacher from Nevada, USA who ran for Congress after being challenged by her pupils to do so. Berry will play Tierney Cahill, a teacher from Reno, Nevada, who ran for office on the condition that her students would help her with the campaign. The movie, Class Act, is set to begin filming in the summer of 2007.
In an unusual casting protocol, the film's production team cast Berry in the part of Cahill, who is a white woman. An inside source reports that they felt it was important to find the right actress to play the role, rather than the right white actress.
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White women have been cast in roles for people of color since the conception of Hollywood and they have been the ONLY women cast in mostly all the roles in the history of TV and film. Balance and change is refreshing.
You know not what you speak about! Look at "Gone With the Wind" .. That was 1939. Mammy, played by Hattie McDaniel, is a beautiful black woman and fantastic actress. She worked alot, consistently, in many films tv till the 50s. "people of color? all people have color!
Besides, the point here is NOT about what races are working. and you just illustrated the point and attitude that is short-sighted. The point is that this is a TRUE STORY and the woman was white. I have no porblem with it but you bet there's protest if the opposite ever happened.
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It's fine for a "oerson of color" to play white...but NOT for a white to play a person of color. THAT makes me uncomfortable...and I'M a person of color!!
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The whole thing is a little weird, because it isn’t like the world is devoid of talented actresses who are the right physical type to play Mariane Pearl. /
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Duh and it's not like it's devoid of actresses to play the teacher in Class Act either !!
I'm all for color blind rolls..EXCEPT WHEN IT"S A BIO! If it were fiction GREAT. But not when you are portraying a real life person. That is just downright dumb. We are so intent on being politically correct we end up making the dumbest compromises.