Fictional IR Couples

Courtney Vance & Kerry Fox...



asTravis Holloway & Maggie Leyland in THE AFFAIR

A bitter sweet IR love story set in England during WWII shortly before the D Day Invasion.

 

Other Movies

There are others I had mentioned in the past:
White Lie
Los Locos
Full Eclipse
Valentine's Day
Hurricane Smith
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

 

Passion and Prejudice
Raw Nerve

 

CBQ, Keith Hamilton Cobb did another IR with Michelle Stafford on the Young and the Restless.

 

Keith Hamilton Cobb & Michelle Stafford

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Noel Clarke & Scarlett Alice Johnson

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I can't believe you forgot several of Blair Underwood's roles where he was involved with a white women. I see his role on Sex and the City was covered, but you forgot his characters on Dirty Sexy Money and In Treatment where he was involved in an IR.

In addition, there was Don Cheadle's character sleeping with Jennifer Esposito in Crash and Markie Post (of Night Court fame) and Keith David as a married couple in There's Something About Mary. And I remember Jim Carrey's gf/wife left him for a black man in Me, Myself and Irene.

 

Blair Underwood and Julia Louis Dreyfus ...



as Daniel Harris and Christine Campbell inThe New Adventures of Old Christine

 

:smt029Yeah our bro Blair does seem to be the "go-to" guy for the IR action but don't forget about him in Full Frontal with Julia Roberts...
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Plus you know Don Cheadle had another IR role in Boogie Nights next to Melora Walters as porn stars who fall in love & get married.

 

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The late Gregory Hines was in at least 2 movies. One was White Nights, in which he was playing an American living in Russia, I think he defected to Russia or whatever, married a Russian woman. It centered around him and Mikhail Baryshnikov (sp?), who wanted to stay in the US but ended up being back in Russia.

The other movie Hines was in, I forgot what the title was, but his character fell in love with a white Southern woman (Annette O'Toole play the part).

 

Isabella Rossellini (sp?) played his wife.

Right. I believe that was a TV movie from the late 80s or early 90s.

He also had a short stint on "Will and Grace" in which he played the boss and love interest for the lead white female character.

 

Thanks for that link, noble. I had never seen that interview (actually no surprise since I basically stopped watching ET ten years ago). It was during this movie that Blair had an awakening in which he became aware how black actors are put in a box and denied the opportunity to even be romantic interests for white women. He even improvised lines about that. He understood wanting to fight that limitation did not make him a sellout and ever since he has been involved in numerous IR on screen relationships.

 

Noble and Jamal, y'all are like the National Archives or some shit. You guys know where to find everything.:smt023

 

I had mentioned that flick on my list. ND, that was Sylvia Penny not Michelle Stafford. Stafford has red hair. Full Frontal was just talk and is one of the crappiest IR movie which ranks with The Long Kiss Goodbye,The Mighty Quinn,and The Pelican Brief.

 

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One of the reasons those are all crappy IR movies is because NONE of them are actually IR films.

The JR/BU storyline of Full Frontal is just one small element of that movie and its not even a true romance between them (and I think Blair's character may be involved with another ww in the movie).

The Long Kiss Goodbye doesn't even suggest a real hint of romance between Sam Jackson and Geena Davis so I don't know why people keep bringing it up?

The Mighty Quinn? Come on. It was a murder mystery yarn and a buddy picture between Denzel and Robert Townsend. Denzel had a black (Jamaican) wife and has a couple of scenes with a married, white temptress. Nothing happens with that temptress and she disappears halfway through the movie. How then would you consider that an IR movie? Its not even trying to be one.

The Pelican Brief is not supposed to be an IR film either. Its not even trying to be a romance. I read the book. It was a pure thriller. In the last few pages the two main characters did hold hands as they walked down a beach indicating a romance had blossomed after the jump ahead in the story. Now the movie did keep that part out mostly because John Grisham didn't want it once they cast Denzel and to be fair Denzel, in his typical cowardly way, didn't want any part of it either. But even if that scene had been done it still would not qualify as an IR movie. Three minutes of hand-holding and smooching would not make an IR film and it would not make a film a romance movie. All it would mean was that there was an example or a presentation of an IR couple in the film. The film was to its core a thriller. If Denzel and Julia had been a couple on the run or if the movie had dealt largely with the clear development of strong feelings between the two then I could see your point. But the movie never tried to do anything like that

 

Actually its Sydney Penny. But you got it basically right. Michelle Stafford was Keith Hamilton Cobb's love interest on Young and the Restless. Sydney was his on All My Children. Cobb is the only black dude to ever be given numerous white love interests on soaps. Shemar Moore can't say that. Moore didn't even have one.

 

You got that right JS. Shemar Moore never had a IR love interest on the Young and the Restless. I give Cobb lots of props on IR scenes on both soaps.

 

I remember others like Black and White starring Bijou Phillips and He Got Game where Denzel Washington had his rare IR scene. On Full Frontal the IR scene between Blair Underwood and Catherine Keener has been blurred.