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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's called aging out. He is a Gen X actor who had a prime in the 2000s.

He's also made a ton of really, reallllllllly bad movies. [/quote]

That's the whole point -- he's made a bunch of terrible movies because he wants to work and those are the only jobs he gets offered. And it's not about aging out -- he's been having this problem for 20 years even when he was fresh off of Amistad or Blood Diamond, high profile prestige movies where his work was extremely well reviewed.

The PP who said he gets typecast is correct and let's be even more clear -- he gets typecast as a slave because of his appearance. He's played a slave in multiple movies. How many white actors have played a slave multiple times? How is that NOT systemic racism. It is so weird to me people are even arguing this.[/quote]

Italian actors get typecast too. But, acting is a choice. it pays well if you're good at it but nobody said it would be easy. There's a reason a lot of them are "struggling actors".[/quote]

Yet Leonardo DiCaprio, an Italian actor who was nominated for his first Golden Globe the same year as Hounsou (in arguably a less challenging role -- DiCaprio was nominated for Titanic, Hounsou for Amistad) has not been typecast and has enjoyed a varied and highly successful career. Hounsou is as talented an actor as DiCaprio. But there are a lot more roles for someone with DiCaprio's looks because Hollywood tells way more stories about white men than it does about black men, especially dark-skinned black men from West Africa.

That is literally systemic racism at work.[/quote]

He's half Italian. DeNiro and Pacino spent a long time as mobsters. Many other lesser knowns are always gangsters. Also ask any woman over 40 how fair all this is. [/quote]

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