The star of Selma has slammed the Oscars for rewarding only 'subservient' roles for black cast members in films.
David Oyelowo, 38, plays Martin Luther King Jr in the film which charts the American civil rights leader's three month campaign in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to persuade President Lyndon B Johnson to introduce the Voting Rights Act, protecting African-Americans' right to vote.
Oyelowo spoke out at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival after he was snubbed for an Oscar nomination for his role despite being lauded by critics.
'Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings or being in the center of our own narrative, driving it forward,' he said.
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6 comments:
BUY SHE DIDN'T MIND THE PAY CK,
HYPOCRISY AT ITS BEST.
Like anything else they are never satisfied. They bitch about something get and still bitch about it
What more do they want, they got a clown in the Whitehouse!
She will get an award from the BET award show so quit complaining.
The movie wasn't good or accurate so shove that in your untalented race-hole.
What I read into this article is, that critics are liberals.
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