Elba, Makolo, and the Nigerian Casting Dilemma ( Must Ethnically Grounded Films Have Lead Actors from those Ethnicities?)

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

https://dailytrust.com/elba-makolo-and-the-nigerian-casting-dilemma/ 

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

A superb article but has global filmmaking not long gone beyond this stage of debate over ethnicity of lead actors?

The iconic figures of Biblical films, for example, such as Moses in Cecil D. Mill's The Ten Commandments are not Hebrews or even Jews, to the best of my knowledge.

I expect we have even had Black people acting Shakespearean plays in films and on stage, cross-ethnic carry overs common in theater world-wide as plays and books are adapted by various audiences.

Is the ethnic profiling at play in connection with the films you mentioned not evidence of cultural immaturity on the part of Nigerians?

Thanks 

Toyin

https://dailytrust.com/elba-makolo-and-the-nigerian-casting-dilemma/ 

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 11:50 AM Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovde...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://dailytrust.com/elba-makolo-and-the-nigerian-casting-dilemma/ 

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