f having them play themselves...
The Hollywood business is purely northerner, or liberal....
And they always screw over the southerners...
How spiteful.
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Actually, Ashley Judd is originally from Kentucky and the actor playing Jack is from Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
shareAre you kidding me? This was filmed about 40 minutes from where I live and the locals were very involved in playing extras in this film so stop assuming that 'we' southerners got the shaft. You have a leading lady who's from the south as well as the writer who is the director from the south as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-09OhQPiIg#t=85
Yeah extras....
And the main actors were born in NY, Massachussets, NY, Chicago, OK, Tobolowsky may have been born in the south but he's as jewish as can be, Washington DC, NY....
See? Not one of them is southern....
So you lied.
My point stands :)
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Ashley Judd is from the south...so no I didn't lie...and what does being Jewish have to do with not being southern? lol You're pretty ignorant. You're also totally ignorant if you thought casting southerners as extras 'doesn't count'....you also dislike being wrong which shows a strong weakness of character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-09OhQPiIg#t=85
She's from California....2 out of 20 of the main actors are from the south...you gotta be kidding me...
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Ashley may have been born in California, but she was raised in the South by a Southern Family. Where you are born and where you are raised are two separate things!
shareYou're a looney.
shareI grew up in Wise County and I know these people. As portrayed in "Big Stone Gap" these are NOT the people from around there. The language coach must have been from Idaho,the costumes were the rejects from an old Beatles movie, and poor Whoopie... the one black in town...a reject from the Broadway version of "Hair". The blacks did NOT mingle with the rest of the townspeople in the way she is portrayed to do...as an equal. Even the Trailer Set were removed from the folks with position in town. And then there are the problems with the coal mines and the miners. An explosion was a VERY serious affair and usually involved people dying or being trapped for days.
I read this as a book when it came out and it was a light-hearted little romance. But this is all a Disney Cartoon version of Appalachia,despite a renowned cast, and not the real, hard-core kind of life that it is in fact. The people of Big Stone Gap deserve better...
much better.