Angelina as Mariane Pearl | The Real Mariane | Angelina and Mariane and their kids in NYC
Above is the first picture of Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl. Daniel was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan while doing an article for The Wall Street Journal. The film is being shot in India and is titled A Mighty Heart.
A lot of people e-mailed me (Jaycen in particular), saying how outraged they were that Angelina is playing a woman of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent. In some extreme cases, people have said this is a form of modern day blackface. I don’t know if I would go that far, but… How do you feel about Angelina playing this part?
The woman is a great actress but there are many talented Black actresses that don’t get shots at movies like this and I think would do a great job. But that’s hollywood for yah.
I’M PROUD TO BE A BLACK WOMAN AND ANYONE GONNA GET ALL UP IN MA FACE N TELL ME I CAN’T SAY I’M A PROUD BLACK WOMAN IS A SHAME OF THEM SELF.I GET UP ANY DAY AN SAY NO WHITE WOMAN SHOULD PLAY THE ROLE OF A WOMAN OF COLOR. THIS IS A SERIOUS INSULT TO BLACK PEOPLE EVERY WHERE AND WE SHOULD MAKE A BIG STINK ABOUT IT. THEY R ONCE AGAIN SWEEPING US UNDER THE CARPET. WE SHOULD STAND UP AND MAKE THEM HEAR OUR VOICES IF U SHUT UP ABOUT THINGS LIKE THIS IMAGINE WHAT ELSE THEY WILL DO. BE PROUD THAT U R BLACK OR COLOR MAKE EM HEAR UR VOICE.PEACE
The day when a BLACK AMERICAN woman can play Marilyn Monroe or Marie Curry or Anne Frank then we’ve got nothing to complain about. I don’t care for Angelia. Actually I think that Daniel Pearle should have kept his butt in France WITH HIS WIFE and he wouldn’t have gotten killed.
I don’t think how Marianne LOOKED had anything to do with casting this movie!!! Brad Pitt bought the rights so he could cast his grandma as Marianne if he wanted to. I say stay home. Wait for it to come out on HBO.
Why does race & ethnic backgrounds have to be in question in regards to this movie. Angelina is trying to emphasis the cruelity against humanity. As a Registered Nurse, race or accent is not taking into consideration of a patient in cardiac arrest. We treat the human being that is in distress. My God…..at some point people must move above race issues. So what if Angelina is potraying someone other than a caucasian women. She did a great job of getting the message across.
why does it matter? this woman is no more black than she is white she is multiracial and therefore could be played by many different acctresses.
I think it would have been only fair and right for somebody else of African American or mixed descent to play the role. People if you are half or part something does not make you African American as a whole. Not everybody look alike. You can look like your Chinese, but doesn’t make you that. Idiots, get a clue. Mariane Pearl is of Afro Cuban and Dutch descent. Dutch and Cuban are ethnicities not races, and French is a nationality Idiots. That means that she is multi-enthnicities not multi-racial, so basically she is African American, Hispanic, and maybe a little Caucasian;etc. I think it would have been a little more appropriate for somebody of color or Hispanic to play the role. There are tons of great actresses in Hollywood that isn’t Black. I can’t think of the names, but there are many ppl that resemble Mariane Pearl. I don’t think that Mariane isn’t in touch with her African roots; although I never hear about it. You can look like something and not be that. If you are have black or part black, that doesn’t make you Black. You are just half Black or part Black;etc. Somebody made a comment about J.Lo she is Puerto Rican full. Both of her parents are Puerto Rican just look it up. She played a Mexican American star Selena, but both of them are Latinas. If Halle Berry is playing a Caucasian woman in a world, she is half Caucasian, so that is something different from this. Angelina’s mother is Native American. Her mother is French Canadian(ethnicity&nationality) & Native American(race). It was wrong for Jessica Alba to portray an African American character, and she is Mexican American(Her mother is French&Dutch & father is Mexican). I know acting is a part of portraying different people but still. People make some sense. I am African American and is of Puerto Rican & Indian(yes, the correct term) descent. I don’t consider myself and know that I am not full African American. I know that I am multi, but basically, you can call yourself whatever. Mariah Carey is mult-racial. Her mother is Irish American(ethnicity&nationality) & her father is African American & Venezuelan. She is African American and Hispanic. She knows and will tell you that she is multi-racial, but she can call herself whatever. I don’t think she considers herself African American. It is her right and only true. Like whatever that Mariane Pear considers herself. It is what it is! It is only true! Mariane Pearl did pick Angelina, and I think that she is wrong for that regardless of much of a great actress Angelina is and how famous she is. She should have thought about people in the future that looks back to this. I hate that fact. Mariane Pearl is wrong, and there is no other way to put it. People would have still got through to the story if somebody less famous than Angelina would have played. I don’t think it is that serious to call it modern day Black face, but it is still a major and big issue. Caucasians just need to shut up b/c African Americans been through so much & limited and they aren’t. I am not being racist b/c I am not like that but still. I am being honest and telling it like it is. I am waiting for comments directed at me; too.
Marianne Pearl is a mixed race woman. This role isnt entitled to black women first despite all trials and tribulations they might face to get roles. Stop whining. Also Brad Pitt her husband, was in charge of that movie in someway right? So you knew she would probably get first priority for the role. Why are you guys claiming something that doesnt belong to you? you dont see the french or the latino community in an uproar because an actress from their party didnt portay Mariiane.