Kojo Anim On Why Black UK Actors Get American Roles: "We Study Hard" 

Hilarious 😂

Lollll I'm like did he mean "BLESSED¿" 🤔🙃

😂🤣 JESUS BE A FENCE!!

DAMN 💀💀💀💀💀💀 ETHERED

This boy said Hammond 🤦🏾

Colonialism Imperialism

😂😂😂😂😂 y’all will never stop. If its not white privilege its foreign privilege…good one

When are you African Americans going to admit you guys are not as good. Just compare Idris Elba’s performance as Mandela with Will Smith in Concussion and those two performances show you why British Black actors get parts over African Americans. Idris not only did perfect South African accent, he sounded Identical to Mandela. Will Smith’s African accent was awful, it neither sounded Nigerian nor African and he is meant to be one of the best black American actors. African Americans actors are paying the price for being American, because American culture is so insular, it has made Black Americans the least worldly and cultured black people in the world so it is harder for American actors to play non-Americans. Now African Americans have lost their Hollywood protection when Hollywood thought only Black Americans could sell movies and you Denzil Washington and Forrest Whittaker in British movies playing black British people but couldn’t even do the accents. British actors have always been better than American actors of every colour. But there is a bigger gap in quality between Black British and Black Americans because you are comparing actors who have trained for years and done movies, theatre and TV with people where models, rappers, stand up comedians and wrestlers doing it for the money and fame.

100 percent agree it's like when I see a black British person of African descent talking for black English even tho they came over in the 80s or 90s when the Caribbeans have been there since the 40s

They love using that word hard. If its not study hard its work hard. If you work so hard or study hard why your homeland shit? Whey come to our homeland talking down on the people you want to play so bad.

@the44118 Shut up. You have a lot of black folks that study HARDER in the U.S. and they still don't get the role they want

@@bonifidehustla because this is where the biggest industries.

I heard it’s bec they take Less money

Well it's not "So what" ! "We study hard" is exactly the reason!! They come here and play roles and we think they're American until we find out later. There's not 1 black actor playing an English role with a seamless accent in the UK not one, not ever. People thought Idris was from New York until after "The Wire" was over. Why? Cause he studied The role and the accent superbly!

That is Africans claim to fame! F.uck them pepper smelling feces logs.

It's called acting.... make belief 😄

@@teej70 ah yes thank you for your basic explanation of acting in a conversation about economics and industry.

⁠@@teej70 *make believe 😅

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He was just born there he grew up in atl like I never got the joke u from somewhere just bc u was born there but if he grew up in atl that’s all he knows lol

Sir Savage the 21st 😂

21 be like, "Pip pip! Cheerio, n*gga"

Bruh I caught that in the beginning I was like nah u didn’t study hard enough

@@simplynea333 straight facts and the interview Jonathan SMFH he doesn't challenge a damn thing neither that why I don't like when they interview the likes of Amanda seales who ran all over him

Those black American directors are usually products of black America's affinity for Pan-Africanism. Because, for the most part, most black Americans simply want to live in harmony with our brothers and sisters abroad. And that desire is even more intense the higher up the social ladder a black American climbs, to positions like Hollywood movie directors, producers, and casting directors.

Thank you! ❤️ Brilliant observation

DAMN...the fact train ran early today🚂💯

What an ignorant & divisive statement..

@@fo4141 Nah, this situation has been brewing for a while. One time for National Security Memorandum 46.

Nobody hates Black Americans mote than Black non-Americans.

Your a hater cry more

For the love God stop yapping. Bringing up age in this convo is just ridiculous. Yall dont care about anybody that is not FBA, so stopping act like yall would of done anything for us. Compare to us yall have more representation then we do , only time we shine is sports now days uk music have been popular in the rest of europe recently.Anytime anybody think black it always FBA. SO trying cry wolf.

American movies have Americans in them with American accents that the only way I could understand his logic

STAY MAD

but then you can argue that black american people shouldnt play african characters/cultral figures. I'm black british (ghanaian) and whilst I love Chadwick Boseman as black panther (may he rest in peace), if we go with the logic that a particular black group can only play characters they have a cultural connection to, then someone of direct african hertiage should have played T'Challa instead. I think AAs can't handle the fact that there are other black people in the world and black is not a monolith and we are starting to see a shift in whose getting the big roles in hollywood. Just my two cents, not hating

@rockb922 Probably the one that's required.

It's the same as when Americans say a 'British accent'. There's no such thing as just one accent.

@@godofthisshit that's a lie. Keep caping tho

@@misterrightuk but Americans aren't acting like we can do British accents so easily.

@@rockb922 Capping for what? You think their acting coaches don't focus on American accents when America has the most lucrative film industry?

The point is to diversify your skill set. An actors job is to fit a role and the more roles you can fit the more jobs you can book. Black Americans, especially the men, tend to limit their creativity and range in order to maintain a hood fan base but this mentality is counterproductive. If all you can play is specific roles because you but yourself in a box you’ll only get those types of roles. You need to broaden your world view to be good actor and black Americans are notoriously closed minded.

Because that's true. You guys don't even know what country you originate from.

@@Adwoa_Agyei I come from US. And my people from the South. That's all I know so far

They don't wanna talk about that part they cheap as hell n their acting resume holds no weight in negotiating more pay in their contracts.This why I'm glad black folks are distinguishing ourselves from foreign background blacks cuz they really be on some nonsense

Exactly!

Facts!!

That's what samuel L. jackson said, not in so many words.

Exactly 💯 If American actors are complaining about fair wages, I know they aren't getting paid fair either. But they're so busy trying to look better than Americans that they end up being under paid and don't even realize it.

Stop finding excuses, AA actors are just not as good. You seriously think Sterling K Brown is a more expensive actor than Idris Elba? Watch the movies Queen and Country, Concussion, Crying Game and Oceans 11. These movies star Denzil Washington, Will Smith, Forrest Whittaker and Don Cheadle the best AA actors and all of them are playing non-Americans and their accents are appalling. No British black actor would dare do such terrible foreign accents and shows the limitations of AA actors compared to British actors.

Wow, he practically spoke POSITIVELY for 5 minutes about the impact of Black American movies,TV shows, music, the culture & u chose to focus on a 20 second blurb about 'studying' for a role... He's absolutely right in that once entilement creeps in, then u are taking talent away. It's such an absurd blanket statement to hear complaints that Black British actors are taking all the 'American' roles. From my relocation, Black American actors are still getting roles. Whoever is best for the role should get it. The entitlement needs to be checked.

@@fo4141 STFU they love to give back handed compliments all he did was talk about how a tether tethers then turns and disrespects those who made it possible for him to come here and pretend to be us. I wonder how many american actor is the Uk or africa they put on?

@@fo4141 That wasn't positive,he was just explaining how black american culture has influence in the UK and how it made them multicultural. Then after that threw shade.

@@fo4141yes, we are entitled when it's our country and the subject matter is of us. How dare you think we should not feel entitled.

@darylsledge1456 & who do u think u are to think u can question or police my thoughts? Go argue with a rock...

No American can do a British accent well do you know how many accents we have over here

And yet they are doing a great job. We should take that anger and get better.

Does he?I have never heard of him saying shit.

Well, now u just making up nonsense. Please site your sources.. It would be career suicide for him to speak negatively on Black Americans.

​@@elliot2177 Exactly! I was thinking the same thing.

@@fo4141 exactly, just venting for the sake of venting.

I refuse to support any of these projects that cast foreigners to play and star as American melanites. That is my silent protest. If it ain't hip with us then the world follows.

then black americans shouldnt play african characters/people then if we are going by that logic. keep the same energy

@@Kaesar24 that equates to less than five movies in the past 20 years.

We don't really have any stories apart from Windrush

​@@Kaesar24DO IT BRITTYWOOD NOT HOLLYWOOD

There’s more. They just tether themselves to us. 🤷🏾‍♂️

You never seen Get Out? The lead actor just won an Oscar.

@@dfwproductions7832 You just proved both of our points. She probably didn’t know he was from the UK. Because he tethered himself to us so people will assume he’s a Black American. 🤦🏾‍♂️

MLK FRED HAMPTON HARRIET TUBMAN Movies all English Actors and theres more but you wouldn't know becouse they are good Actors

What shows how much you know about the business.

Oh lawd 😂

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Interesting you say that they are ghanaian

never going to happen..goodluck

Proper. Same here.

You won't affect a thing

UK blacks have contributed nothing as far as culture goes to the world. They're just an amalgamation of someone else's culture. They're just a mash up of Caribbean, Nigerian and Whyte UK culture. They have no actual identity of thier own. So they have to steal ours.

Stop whining then

You gotta look at the bigger picture, its more of that the US dominate, Movie industries . The Europe used dominate untill WW 1 and 2 fucked all up.

Wrong. UK actors in the US are paid the SAME. Everyone has to be a member of the union SAG, so they’ll get paid the same as any other actor in the US - at the entry level. Of course, higher up, there is room for negotiations. UK rates are different - sometimes lower, sometimes actually higher. If the project is being made in the UK/Europe and actors are being employed locally then sure, sometimes, the cost of talent could end up being cheaper, but remember that the majority of the budget of ANY project goes towards the equipment, the locations, post-production and publicity. Most people outside the business don’t realise that actor fees are nothing in comparison to other costs. And technically, most US Tv shows and movies are shot in the US. Yes, US actors should NEVER be discouraged. The fact is, getting quality work in Hollywood is dang HARD. The majority of actors take years and sometimes HUNDREDS (yes!!) of auditions, before they book anything worthwhile or that can create any real momentum, but often those who do not work in the industry don’t factor this in. Being British or American is not enough to book any project. The actor has to DELIVER. And unfortunately, many actors who try out for these roles are either not ready, or not right for what producers are looking for. If you were given $70 - $100 million to make a project, I promise any sane person will look for the BIGGEST or most accomplished talent for their projects, unless someone unknown walks in and blows all the competition out of the water, or they’ve decided the project needs to have an unknown lead it. This conversation about UK vs US Black actors is so general and often not backed up with facts. If you count role for role, there are infinitely more black (and white) US actors working in US projects, than British or non-American actors; but it is so easy to make it about the most successful or most visible ones; and the fact is, black US actors are killing the game. By the time UK actors come to work in the US, they come off the back of big projects, or huge success in the UK. So they are either already stars, or they’re on their way. Otherwise, they have to do the time, just like Idris Elba did and any other person will have to do. He was in the US for YEARS before he got The Wire. I think the title of the video was deliberately provocative and designed to be click bait. Any other part of Kojo’s nuanced answer could have been used in the title but they knew this will get clicks and provoke debate.

There’s always a guy talking about how we need to do what one guy did, as if it wasn’t a one in a million shot.

@@telluhwatboy but it's always one person who thinks it's lightning striking twice

...and Tessa Thompson in Thor: Ragnarok

Most British people don't want to move to the states it's what happens when you own 90% of English speaking media but I do agree that there needs to be more Black Americans in Black American rolls tho we don't take up that much I can see why you would be angry at it

Bro white English people have been playing Americans for years it’s no different

that is true...They have no power back home so they ride our coattails.

They need to fight for their spot over there the same way we fought for ours over here

They"work hard", but don't want to work hard for opportunities in the UK. OK.

​@@elliot2177we're like 2% of the population

​@@thechocolatedelegate9830black is only 2% in the uk

I stopped reading when you said the British invented acting 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣. If you're referring to Shakespeare, no he wasn't the first to write plays. Lawd, y'all dumb

@@flyleelee5351 wow. Looks like you're the ignorant one because if you weren't you'd realize their influence as one of the foremost contributors to world theatre and performing arts for hundreds of years and how they eventually influenced film in the 20th Century more than any other country. It has nothing to do with Shakespeare you dumb mooncalf! Shakespeare was a playwright. I'm talking about the British impact on ACTING as we know it today! The first actor to turn film into an art was Charlie Chaplin A BRITISH comedian! It wasn't Tyler Perry lol

So true!! 💯

Tyler Perry produces new shows every year on BET plus. What are you lying for?

@@thejazzmusician wtf you talking about? I'm talking about the low quality and bad acting of his terrible product... Go away!

Or Nigerian market as well with a population of 220 million they see growth deltas and $$$$$$

Wtf did you say???

they don't wanna hear that tho'. They wanna create DRAMA which is ironic...

Speak for yourself. Just because you didn't study don't mean the rest of us didn't.

I am not sure who the "majority of us" are, but FBAs' are some of the most educated people. Oh, you missed a factor. #systemicwhitesupremacy

Who the hell is "we"!? Speak for yourself and those who are in your circle.

You not even FBA, stop it

Exactly... Somebody's brainwashed.....

@@jermainec2462 People study Americans more than Americans study other people.

Did u watch the clip?

@@adriannemarie19 NOPE..RESPONDING TO THAT CLICK BAIT TITLE, NO NEED TO..