Movies with BM/WW Couples

Blake Lively mentioned her pre-baby body and how she misses it. Good photo to show off, I say.

 

Those abs are luscious.

 

Wish that dude was substantially darker

Just kidding

 

You may or may not have meant it as a joke but I'm for one am tired of seeing an over representation of one type of skin tone for black actors. So I'm happy to see Justice Smith getting work.

 

You think dark-skinned actors are overrepresented? Would your position change if we didn't count Black Panther lol?

 

No mention of this supernatural horror film "Fantasy Island" opening this weekend?:








Looks like Maggie Q's character has a BM love interest in the film.

 

Lol they turned Fantasy Island into horror?

Fun fact: the Q stands for Quigley.

 

Sterling K Brown
Denzel Washington
Chadwick Boseman
Samuel L Jackson
Jamie Foxx
Daniel Kaluuya
Idris Elba
Mahershala Ali
Brian Tyree Henry
LaKeith Stanfield
Yahya Abdul Mateen
Gary Carr
David Oyelowo
Don Cheadle
Trevante Rhodes
Anhony mackie
John Boyega
Forest Whitaker
Mike Colter
Aldis Hodge
Rob Morgan
Jason Mitchell
Shameik Moore
Damson Idris
Y'lan Noel
Willam Jackson harper
Courtney B Vance
Kevin Hart
Tyrese
Derek Luke
Taye Diggs
Michael Kenneth Williams'

This was easy to put together and I left off some name. I also tried not to include guys who were still too new and haven't done anything substantial enough to be noticed by the mainstream and I also didn't include guys like Wesley Snipes who haven't gotten much work over the last five years. But the guys I did list represent the vast majority of leading or co-leading roles by black men on western TV and in western movies (Check IMDB if you see names you don't recognize). If you try to come up with a list of lighter skin black males you won't come close to matching the numbers. But, hey, someone here can always give it an attempt. Hell, I didn't even thrown in Michael B Jordan's name.

Don't get me wrong. I do believe that darker skin black men should make up the majority of the talent because in terms of skin complexion they make up the majority of black males in general across the globe. But in terms of TV/Movie representation dark skinned black men are in a great position. This ain't the 19302 or 1940s. There is no under representation going on with them nor is there and undervaluing of them on that front, which is exactly the opposite of black actresses. The Hollywood and UK media industry act too often as if dark skin black women and light skin black men don't exist, relatively speaking of course. Suggesting, even in a joke, that there is some shortage of dark skin black actors if you take away a particular comic book film, is as disingenuous as the ADOS crowd's belief that black British actors are getting all the roles. Numbers tell otherwise.

 

1 - That looks awful. No wonder they buried it.

2- Pena can't keeping being the lone American born Latino male representation in Hollywood. Just as with Chips he is miscast because he reminds you nothing of original Latino actors who filled those iconic TV roles.

3-Not certain Maggie Q has a black love interest. What she may have are memories of a dead black husband and a dead daughter.

 

God bless this woman for having the guts to do this. Other white actresses in that rare position probably would have never drawn attention to being in bed with a black actor for a scene.

 

1. I disagree that the media treat light skinned black men as if they don't exist as compared to darker skinned men. Maybe that's one of my blindspots, I'm willing to be proven wrong. But I haven't yet seen anything convincing on that front.

2. No one claimed there was a shortage of dark skinned black actors.

3. The presence or absence of Black Panther isn't determinative of whether or not there are sufficient roles for black actors of any shade.

4. Boris Kodjoe
Chris Williams
Jussie Smollett
Drake
Michael Ealy
Will Smith
Eric Benet
Christopher B. Duncan
Ice-T
Sinbad
Jeffrey Wright
Evan Ross
Shemar Moore
Jesse Williams
Terrence Howard
Allen Payne
Lenny Kravitz
Rick Fox
LL Cool J
Mario Van Peebles
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Robert Ri'chard
Omari Hardwick
Gary Dourdan
Common
Henry Simmons

 

Can't wait to see that flick.

 

Probably because she's Asian.

 

I saw it. Enjoyable.

 

Hope you be able to see that flick.

 

Going to see it later tonight!

 

How did you feel about the scenes with Blake and Sterling; was there any other kissing or snuggling? The hallway scene I hope isn't a few seconds long!!

 

Majority of those actors aren't relevant.

 

To be fair I wasn't the one to bring up Black Panther, just responding to someone who did.


As for your list....not that impressive. Of the guys you mentioned only a handful (Jeffrey Wright, Will, Terrence Howard, Ealy, O'Shea Jackson, Common and Omari Hardwick) are getting regular substantial work or have a single project that is generating any buzz for them (Jessie Williams is a mere supporting player on a large TV ensemble that has been going on for near two decades). Go deeper and you'll see that Hardwick has yet to translate his star role in the awful "Power" into anything else of interest in Hollywood; T. Howard is on a downswing and is no longer the leading man in motion pictures that he appeared on the cusp of being a decade ago; Ealy should have been a movie star and still tries but right now he gets very little to do outside of broadcast network television. Wright, Will Snith and Common are doing well though. But there were much better options out there for you to use such as Kelvin Harrison Jr, Justice Smith, Andre Holland, Daveed Diggs, Harry Lennix, etc. But even when you include them its NOTHING compared to dark skinned actors of African descent. And that was my point. The situation for dark skin black men is pretty damn good in western TV and Film in comparison to light skin black men. That should have not been a controversial statement.

 

Okay so no one is talking about "Bad Boys For Life?"

Never had any intention of seeing this film but was convinced to check it out with a friend. I really, really liked it a lot. Easily my favorite Bad Boys movie, at the very least far superior to #2. But that what happens when you have real filmmakers behind the camera instead of Michael Bay.

But the reason for why I'm talking about the movie in this thread is because of who Smith's love interest is. Or are.

Spoilers Alert

Spoiler

When I saw the casting for this film my question was what lady would be the woman Smith's character was to hook up with considering Gabrielle Union was not in the plans. There were three new names that stood out in terms of where they fell on the cast list of the IMDB page: Vanessa Hudgens, Paola Nunez and Kate del Castillo.

Obviously Hudgens was going to be out of the question as she should be. She's too far younger. So my curiosity was directed exclusively at Nunez and del Castillo. But I could get no information regarding their roles. In retrospect that made a lot of sense when it came to del Castillo's character. Her past was the big reveal. But as for Nunez? I don't get why the marketing was hiding her. She was the primary "love interest" of Mike (Smith) in the movie. Although we come into a time after they had broken up as a couple, there are still feelings between them and those feelings flow to the surface as the film progresses. By the time the film ends they appear to be a couple once more. But there is no love scene between them nor is there even a shared kiss. I'm 75% sure there would have at least been a kiss if a white actor was playing Smith's role but I digress.

Let me point out one more thing. There are enough moments in which the two of them are standing in close proximity and a couple of scenes in which Smith is ogling her. They used none of these moments in trailers. If you study trailers carefully you'll see that there is always editing of white male leads getting all close to their female counterparts in a way to suggest something romantic or sexual occurs between those characters, even if NOTHING actually happens between them in the film. Hollywood is always selling the image of the virile white male getting pussy. Hollywood does not do that when it comes to black men. So even if a black male does have sex scenes or kissing scenes with a woman (even a black woman), more often than not none of that will be hinted at in a trailer. It shows how uncomfortable the industry and this nation still is when it comes to black (hetero) male sexuality.


Okay, now the bonus and the true reveal. Turns out the one woman Smith's character ever loved, the one he alluded to earlier in the film in a passing remark, is del Castillo's character. She is the true bad guy in the movie, the one who sets her son off on a killing spree in revenge against all the key players who sent her and her now dead husband off to jail. Again....here comes spoilers. Well, it turns out that baby daddy of that son is Smith's character. When he was deep undercover he had an affair with her against his better judgment. She was the one who made him into an effective undercover policeman; she taught him how to carry himself, how to dress, etc. But she was too ruthless for Smith's character to see any future with her so he ended up choosing his badge over his heart. The major plot is all set in her motion in her attempt to take down Mike because of his betrayal of her.

So Will Smith's character has a romantic storyline with two different females (one being the love of his life) and neither of them is black. And damn does that make the film better as far as I'm concerned. I can only imagine the disgust some black female viewers had seeing all of this play out. The lone black man of any desirability, the fucking star of the film, is not chained to some damn romantic relationship with a black woman. Thank God. If they had brought in black directors for this movie you know that would not be the case.