For some reason when I watched her on Enterprise, I always thought of her as being black. My husband said he always thought of her as being white. I have no idea now. The movie hints that the character she is playing is bi-racial, so I wondered about her in real life. Not that it matters, just curious is all.
shareI agree...... Just like in the movie, they say that in certain light, she will look black, and in certain light she would look white.
Can someone end this mystery and say if she's black or white.
One think I do know. She is SEXXXY.
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I was not convinced of at least two of them, and didn't think any were relevant to the storyI agree with that. I thought the focus on racial issues came off as a failed attempt at making this a "message film", and it just didn't fit the complicated plotting, which didn't need anything else. If they would have gotten rid of the attempts at the racial messages and made this a bit less "tell don't show", this film could have easily been two or three points higher in my book.
Jolene Blalock is white. The storyline was that she was a white woman who basically faked being "bi-racial" to get ahead in her career. While listening to the commentary, the director stated that he thought it was best to cast a white actress who could "pass" for a bi-racial woman. I wasn't fooled, though when I saw her character wearing braids in her hair, I thought she looked like Whoopi Goldburg. Ha! Sarcasm folks.
shareYour husband is right: Jolene is white, maybe she looks a bit black because she raised at the beach, she and her family are surfers.i even read Jolene goes to Palm Springs and others sunny places.
sharethe whole time i was watching this film i was thinking trick of light my ass, thats a white woman
"I hate everything that comes between your body and mine, even the air"
I'm a black woman and when they said she was black in the movie I was like "huh? she is???" lol. They over did it with the braids. Not only did those go out in like 1995, black women all wear their hair straight now. I don't really care if she was black or white because she did a terrible acting job. I mean TERRIBLE. I was like man is she on crack? They put way too much makeup on her and gave her these horrible angles and shots that showed off her worst features. Poor chick. I hope that wasn't her major movie acting debut!
shareMSU braids (and other African hairstyles) never "go out". It's not just a style in some parts of the world you know. Anyways, Jolene is hot to death, don't get me wrong. I loved her as T-Pol on Star Trek : Enterprise. I love petite women with curves in the right place and he is just that. But those hairstyles just did not work for her. I liked her hair better short (when she was on Star Trek), that works for her. Still she was as sexy as always, and she doesn't even have to try.
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Actually, not all braided hair is an african hairstyle. And styles of braiding do go out. You don't know what parts of the world I know, so it's best not to assume you know anything about me. But let's keep it in perspective. The part of the world she was in is what's relevant and in that part of the world different styles of braids and ways of wearing braids go out of style like any other hair style. In the 90s, it was that style (which my mom had), now it's zillions and cornrows down the back, etc. That said, they tried too hard to make her look black, period. Acting was terrible, period.
shareI am willing to bet you never step foot out of Michigan State, and just about everything originated in Africa (including people).
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I agree, the suggestion that she was bi-racial wasn't credible. This entirely blew the suspension of disbelief for me. The actress herself is of Scottish ancestry and her facial structure makes this blatantly apparent. There are so many more actresses who would have pulled off the role with more conviction.
shareI have been trying to find out whether she was or not myself, but I'd like to say that she could very well be all black and you wouldn't know it. My grandfather was a black man, but if you didn't know that and you saw him on the street you'd think he was white (which has a big part in his death unfortunately). He had light skin and blue eyes. I never met him but I've seen many pictures and his brother, my great uncle, is still around and looks the same way. In his old age he even reminds me of Santa Claus. Granted, if I were to trace the family tree (but I don't really have that luxury) I'd probably find many instances of attempts to "bleach out the line" which would account for the paleness of skin and blue eyes, but that doesn't change the fact that both of their parents were what we'd consider African American and not "Mulatto" or anything.
shareher father is half black. so i guess she is black because of the "one drop rule". either way, i just could not find her character sexy at all in this movie. the braids did absolutely nothing for her face.
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