It’s not like the show’s producers called up a giant lizard to play Prince, then I can see an issue.

Jake Gyllenhaal has as much right to play Prince as does some guy from Tehran. We’ll go with whoever the hell answers our phone calls.” I guess Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor who plays Prince, wasn’t busy.Īnd another thing, and it’s the reverse of what Dar is saying: why can’t a white person portray an Iranian? Can the audience, which is watching a FAKE SHOW, not handle an actor who doesn’t look like what they think he or she should look like? And why does skin color even matter? Why can’t an actor act? Didn’t men play woman in the time of Shakespeare? What if I, a nerd of Puerto Rican descent (even though I know absolutely nothing about Puerto Rico-I know more about the cultures of World of Warcraft than I do anything about Puerto Rico), wanted to play George Washington in a community theater production of “George Washington Does Some Stuff”? Would the audience not be able to handle that? I’m a great actor, I’ll have you know! Quick, intern, go through this list of actors and see who’s available for two months sometime in the next six months. I’m sure the film’s producers were merely thinking, “We need to find a male actor who’s reasonably well-known to the American movie-goer. They also note this weekends release of 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,' a live-action adaptation of a video game that stars white actor Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role instead of an actor with a Middle Eastern background. It’s saying white people can’t enjoy movies unless the protagonist is white.ĭar’s way over-thinking this. It’s not only insulting to Persians, it’s also insulting to white people.

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