Jamie Foxx: Leonardo DiCaprio Cut 'Django Unchained' Short Over N-Word
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Jamie Foxx says Leonardo DiCaprio did not want to say the N-word so much while reading "Django Unchained," but Samuel L Jackson told him otherwise.

Jamie Foxx says Leonardo DiCaprio did not want to say the N-word so much while reading “Django Unchained,” but Samuel L Jackson told him otherwise.

  • aberrate_junior_beatnikEnglish
    274·
    8 days ago

    F.d. signifier talks about this in one of his videos. Don’t remember which and can’t find it. But as I recall his take was that it’s weird to be OK with playing a hyper-racist slaver right up until you have to say the n-word. Not to say DiCaprio is a bad person or whatever, but it’s a good point.

    • Soulg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      36·
      8 days ago

      I don’t think it’s that weird. Acting is just playing a character. But then even when doing that, looking at your black friends/ colleagues and calling them that, if you’re a normal person, would still be difficult.

    • shoulderoforion@fedia.ioOP
      103·
      8 days ago

      what point it that exactly, people have a limit to what things they can force themselves to be comfortable with while play acting? this is faux intellectualism and buffoonery writ large lol

      • aberrate_junior_beatnikEnglish
        61·
        7 days ago

        what point it that exactly

        That it’s a mirror for the way white liberals behave. Obsess over language while ignoring structural racism & denying material benefits to black people.

        This reply is not for the person I’m replying to; I thought someone else stumbling on this might want clarification but I’m not continuing a discussion with someone who throws insults at me.

          • aberrate_junior_beatnikEnglish
            4·
            7 days ago

            I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

            From Letter from Birmingham Jail

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          7 days ago

          the way white liberals behave. Obsess over language

          Spot on. Don’t fucking start me.