Explaining the HATE on Aaron Pierre as Green Lanterns John Stewart
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- James Gunn's DCU has recently announced the casting for Hal Jordan and John Stewart as Green Lanterns. In this video we discuss how people seem to have an issue with the casting news due to Aaron Pierre's skin complexion and more.
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#aaronpierre #greenlantern #dcu #johnstewart #colorist #dcuniverse
He's black. That's how the world will see him. He represents. I'm wishing him. The best
Legit
most (or at least half) of the world is very colourist
So you think its ok just to put a man of color. I don't he need to be my skin color. Blk. Not brown or mixed race. White ppl would be pissed
Aaron Pierre is actually the exact same color as some of those images of John Stewart. But as a light skinned black guy myself, I’ve also received a lot of “not black enough” comments throughout my life. It definitely gets to you until you stop worrying about what ppl say about you. And Aaron is darker than me
Those are images of him next to something bright like his ring. This comment is wrong.
@@LouisLitt369 how is my comment wrong, I’m pointing out his color compared to some of the images in the video
@@DemiseHarp I take that comment back, even in the argument I made it still validates your comment to some extent.
@@LouisLitt369 Respect
Well, the #Colorism to which they are referring is because of his lack of resemblance to John Stewart from the comics, who is noticeably DARKER.
Rebel Ridge was great. He's in great shape and I think he will do a good job.
I'm 50/50 on this. I'm not going to invalidate people that have an issue with this. Not just colorism, but visual comic accuracy. Nerds take this thing seriously. It's not a deal breaker, but it's something that isn't beyond scrutiny.
Rebel Ridge showed he can be a strong military presence. He showed he can play that role.
Aaron is just better and people who cry colorism would rather settle for lesser talent for the sake of "color". That's dumb.
THANK YOU!!!
Thank you for covering these important subjects!
Most iconic dark skinned Superhero characters(including Latino dark skinned characters)have been played by lighter skinned actors. I think AP is getting heat that's been building for a long time. I don't blame him for taking the role. I'd play Fred Flintstone if I was getting millions of dollars and I'm dark skinned.
Hollywood definitely needs to do better. It would've been nice to see the creator's intentions for the character to be considered. But to say Aaron Peirre should've declined the opportunity to play a fictional character is ridiculous. If he was given the opportunity to play James Bond, we would all be in support and arguing with white folks who had an issue with it.
He will do a great job, we should support him and that’s that.
Great point. We argue for a black James Bond, a black Superman, a black such and such. So if we complain about his colour, then white people would be within their rights to complain about a black actor taking a white role...💁🏾♂️
Your comment makes no sense he is not James Bond it's never been a black James Bond so you using this as a stepping stool when black James Bond doesn't f****** exist makes no f****** sense whatsoever you get one chance to do a black Green Lantern and you get a light skin dude to play a dark-skinned dude you don't see the problem in that
@@tsheporabekane4172what grade point I've never seen a black Superman and I've never seen a black James Bond so what point is she making you're pulling straws out of your own ass play never been a black James Bond or a black Superman that's all talk and that's all rumors but you get the very first black green Lantern and you can't make him a black man it's got to be some light-skinned mixed race to get the f*** out of here with that nonsense I don't care about Who's acting or who's not acting going to be upset when a how Jordan turns out to be a Mexican guy then we can all have the same conversation don't tell me a black man with dark skin should feel that you're replacing a dark-skinned superhero with a light-skinned man it's f****** rude
Telling someone whose mixed they aren’t black enough is wrong but I understand . But telling someone whose full black they ain’t black enough for a role is just strange and not to be taken seriously .it’s the opposite side of the little mermaid controversy it’s dumb and it’s okay to say that .
@@Anthonycheesman33 it's dumb to think it's this simple, especially when there's a history of lighter skinned actors playing roles of darker skinned characters and why that happens and happens so often. Wanting proper representation doesn't discredit anyone's blackness.
I've been following him since 2018 DC's KRYPTON.
So glad you did a video on this! Congratulations to Aaron!
Happy with both casting.
I'm grateful and Contempt with Both casting Choices , hell it's been long Overdue for a Live Action John Stewart in the aftermath of the passing of the Late great Chadwick Bozeman , John Stewart and Black panther are my 2 favorite Characters of color !
He's Perfect
Thank you for covering this topic. However, the issue isn't that Aaron Pierre's not "Black enough". It's that the character was specifically designed in the comics to be a dark-skinned Black man, and Aaron is a light-skinned Black man with green eyes. Because there is a history of this (e.g. the two Storms, Sunspot, Stagecoach Mary, etc.), his casting has hit a nerve with some folks. Then there's the whole British vs. American actor angle too. But to say Aaron isn't "Black enough" I think mischaracterizes what the actual pain point is.
Also, Amandla Stenberg turned down the role of Shuri because she understood that Wakandans were dark-skinned people and that Shuri was a dark-skinned character. So in my opinion, I think it is incumbent on Black actors of whatever shade to understand the impacts of colorism and how they may unintentional engage with it. It's similar to how Halle Berry was chosen to play a trans woman for a project, then stepped down after backlash because she wasn't the right fit as a cisgender woman.
I like Aaron Pierre and I hope he does well in the role. But at a certain point, we as Black people need to make these studios understand that we are not interchangeable. Because when they do change up Black characters - especially heroes (they seem to always get the skin tone right on the villains...) - they want to try to lighten us up.
Well said.
4:08 I believe it's the same scenario when choosing a black Canadian actor. There's less money that has to go out from the studio. The studio doesn't have to pay a black U.k actor or Canadian actor like they would a black actor who is from, The U.S.6:32 I think the Latino conversation is still a black conversation. In the Americas alone 5 out of 10 countries with the highest black populations, are Latin countries six if you count Haiti. But tv shows & movies don't reflect it. I think black panther 2 was awesome because it highlighted actors who otherwise would not be seen. I remember conservations of why they didn't get a light skin mexican to play the role who looks more European coming from actual Mexicans. Oftentimes Hollywood will use Latinos, west Asians, South Asians interchangeably to play roles forgetting not just dark skinned people but actual brown people as well and I believe that's why it matters. 6:45 I think all shades of brown should be celebrated. I definitely think when someone says someone isn't black enough it's definitely people's own ignorance & colorist views. I remember when people said that about some actors in the first black panther movie having no idea that certain tribes in Africa have lighter skin people as well having nothing to do with colonialism. 7:21 outside of two people 95% of the voice actors were dark skinned who voiced John Stewart. I agree they should find the best actor for the job. What's crazy is that in 2024 they couldn't find one dark skinned actor for the role. He's a good actor I'm still going to watch. Because I'm sure if he's got a lot of screen time the R's will hate on him regardless. Just look at what happened to Amandla Stenberg in
The Acolyte. Before the show aired and released people had R comments on a lot of the trailer videos and promotional photos. A lot of black comic book characters are dark skinned I just hope that people don't continue to use these same arguments or talking points. Because 7:26. When people keep saying they just chose the best actor for the job they feed into colorism because every time a dark skinned actor doesn't get the role that's the talking point. Zoe Saldana, Halle Berry, Terrance howard all cast in roles for dark skinned people. The only reason Zoe got more hate is because people didn't see her as black even though she's Afro- Latino. I just wish black people would be just as upset about colorism as they are about racism.
kamaru usman told daniel cormier that seeing him make let him know that he could do it... usman went on to be one of the best ever... representation is really important
I worry that there'll be some backlash and then they'll decide just to scrap the character and say well. We don't want to cause controversy so we're just not going to use this character to be safe. We don't want to hurt anybody so we just won't have him in the films
he will be great Chadwick his not Africa
Gotta wonder if the same people upset about this were upset about the recent trend of Hollywood race swapping roles and characters?
Yeah and how many people have played how Jordan how many skin color tones has Hal Jordan been stop with the f****** nonsense you guys go outside the box to make a stupid point no character in any history that's been changed to put the black Narrative of a black man false live in hypocrisy you tell me one character in comic book that was changed to fit the black man's role black man that's a number one best seller comic book that's like changing Batman to be a black man you give me one instant you can even say the Riddler have they even changed regular to be a black man and won All-Star comic from Marvel or DC that they changed to be a black man and if you say Deadshot I'm going to slap you silly could you clearly don't know what a a point comic book character is
@@Rubrick23. whether it be in comics or movies, race swapped characters don’t do very well. Characters with an overemphasis on an identity group don’t do well long term because they become tokenized and aren’t allowed to grow past that particular character identity.
It's not that he's not black enough if just a disdain for Hollywood's colourist hiring practices, tbh I'm not too bothered about this but I know when they cast storm in the mcu we'll probably get a lightskin african princess
Just get the Daily Show guy with the same name and he can swap it too Trevor...see how they like that.
I always wanted John David Washington to be John Stewart I think he’s perfect
Except he can't act.
@@anothervictory2595 bugging
Internet casting directors. Wow.
Gaytification of the BM image.
Not even that much hate
Yo im over that.... denzel is dormamu in dr strange 3 #LFG #Wooh !
My problem is we don’t wanna make our own hero’s plus all these hero’s are ripoffs of African mythologies.
I think he's cool, but I wish darker skin men+women got more opportunities. I see that as a yt Hollywood problem where they feel more comfy with POC that look closer to them. Hate how yt ppl comfort is used to devide POC
@@GrandHoopla darker skinned women seem to get snubbed at times but darker skinned men have been offered a lot of opportunities
@@DemiseHarp Very true with hollywood in general with darker Black women. However, within the context of these marvel & dc cinematic universes, darker Black women have finally gotten some time to shine: all the women in Black Panther, Teyonah Parris as Photon, Lashana Lynch as her mom/Binary, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, and Danielle Brooks as her daughter.
I really wish we had a viable american alternative to white hollywood instead of begging them for table scraps.
What are you talking about everyone has their story I'm so sick of these one minded narrative that you get on your UA-cam channel and you just start painting black and white scenarios and then whenever you feel like it you put a daughter yellow and say well that's how everything works know it's not this character was built for a black dark skin man that is in literature when you want to describe something you either put it as a pair of white man or you talked about a granite black man stop the f****** cat