My recomendations for the film Mary Magdalene are:
Jesus: Luke Evans or Edgar Ramirez or Tom Hiddleston
Pontius Pilate: Mark Strong or Kenneth Branagh
Caiaphas: Geoffrey Rush
Herod Antiphas: Irfan Khan
Mary (Jesus' mother): Susan Sarandon
Peter: Djimon Hounsou
Judas: Oded Fehr
Jesus was not white. Mary was not white.
shareYou know the Bible is fiction, right?
shareYou know the majority of people mentioned in the bible were real people, who lived in real places regardless of the events/stories that were told about them, right? most confirmed by actual archaeological evidence and others that a majority of scholars agree were real people.
Even if Jesus was indeed a complete fabrication (again, most scholars contend he was a real person, the fantastical stories about him are irrelevant). This is still about a very specific place and time. Jesus and Mary were born in what most people today would call Palestine.
Are you really going to argue that western, white actors should play Middle Eastern people from Palestine, really?
It's a movie.
And even if it matters, in China, the Holy Virgin has Asian features.
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No it doesn't matter, because there's no historical precedent for Asian people erasing the identity (whether culturally, religiously, or physically) of others on a mass scale like white westerners have done in Europe and the Americas.
also "it's a movie" is not an excuse. Would you accept Anthony Hopkins playing Martin Luther King Jr. ? no, you wouldn't.
To answer your question, Anthony Hopkins has already played a Black man and did a wonderful job at it. And no one had a problem with it either.
shareI'm curious. Can you please tell which movie, if at all you're not trolling.
shareReplying to post by pruthvishrathod: I too would like to know when Anthony Hopkins played a black man.
shareI think the film is The Human Stain based on Philip Roth's book. I haven't seen the film or read the book so cannot say for sure
shareThat is the one. Hopkins plays an African American who has been passing as white almost his entire life so it made sense to cast someone white in order for it to be believable that he had successfully pretended to be white. The colir of my he character's skin was the crux of the story.
shareYes, that is the one. Hopkins played an African-American man who had been passing as white for almost his entire life. For that reason, it made sense to cast a white actor to make the story of a man pretending to be white believable. The color of the character's skin is the crux of the story.
shareJesus was not white. Mary was not white.You have something wrong with you. share
wanting people to be represented accurately instead of whitewashing everything means I have something wrong with me? well okay then....
shareIn case your comment means that you disagree that Jesus and Mary were not white, they were not Caucasian or WASPs - I know , there were no Protestants at the time, maybe not even Anglo-Saxons - but people from that part of the world generally do have darker complexions than what we think of as white , the portrayals of the skin color of biblical figures and in artworks and in films, and if they lived in this country today, possibly would consider themselves people of color.
Today, there are many more "White " people in the Middle East, particularly in Israel, because of the large number of European immigrants.
I suspect that the makers of the movie , fearing a backlash or boycott from white American Christians, didn't quite have the courage to go with darker skinned actors.
You are right. I hadn't thought of that because Biblical figures are always portrayed as white in artworks and movies. I imagine there would have been a great uproar if people of color had been cast and possibly a "Christian" boycott when the movie is released .
shareI would love to play her. I am very close to this story:
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