Three months before “Gods of Egypt” has premiere, yesterday both film company and manufacturer of the sensational step to regret the film they have made.
The reason is the homogeneous ethnic composition of actors. For the most part, the white Europeans and Americans who have had the role in a movie where there is a focus on Egypt’s mythological history. It reports Dagbladet, citing The Independent.
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Danish Nikolaj Coster-Walday, Scottish Gerard Butler and Australian Brenton Thwaites is among the high-profile actors who have key roles in the film.
– We recognize that it is our responsibility to ensure that the casting reflects the diversity and culture of the time period we portray. In this case we have failed to live up to our own standards, and we are sincerely sorry for, writes production company Lions Gate said in a statement.
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Director Alex Proyas says also that he subsequently realize that casting should have been more culturally diverse.
Ava Duvernay, director of Selma, commented on Twitter that this is an unusual grip, and she after this has even greater respect for director JJ Abrams, whose principal cast a black storm trooper in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
Also star director Ridley Scott got like; criticism for the 2014 movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings”, where Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton played the roles of Moses and Pharaoh Ramesses II. Scott defended their selections that this was necessary to finance the movie.
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