The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!

FANTI

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Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Samuel L. Jackson once mused what an African American actor would have done with Daniel Kaluuya's role in Get Out, sparking a heated debate about casting Black British Actors for quintessentially American roles. Although that controversy raged years ago, it continued to simmer. With Cynthia Erivo's Oscar nod for playing Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and her upcoming portrayal of Aretha Franklin in Genius, this debate has erupted again, giving this conversation more urgency. On this week's FANTI, Tre'Vell and Jarrett break down why this is such a thorny issue, and also why it matters.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fan Side of the Podcast for all those complex and complicated conversations
0:07.1	about the gray areas in our lives.
0:08.6	I am politics and pop culture journalist Jared Hill.
0:11.1	And I am your favorite entertainment journalist and film critic Trevel the Anderson, but you can call me
0:16.5	Beyoncé.
0:17.5	That's totally acceptable.
0:18.5	For a few lies there, but go on.
0:20.4	Coming up on today's show, this week's show, we're finally getting to those British blackters we mentioned during episode one.
0:28.0	We know it's been a minute, but y'all been acting up in these streets and so we have to take a little detour.
0:33.0	Couple of things, number one, this is probably something that you don't think about very
0:36.1	often and you're probably like, why is this even a conversation?
0:39.6	We'll get into why that matters.
0:40.8	Yes.
0:41.8	Also, for the white people that are listening, you probably shouldn't be using the phrase
0:44.3	blackter.
0:45.3	Just want to put that out there.
0:46.8	Love ya, that's not yours.
0:49.0	But yes, that's coming up on the show today.
0:50.5	And as always, we will have our dishonorable and honorable mentions
0:53.2	Jared's giving one away to a spicy white woman this week so stay tuned. Let me tell you she just
0:59.2	she made my whole heart open up and I was like I need to know more. We're gonna get
1:03.2	I love it. But before we get into all of that we're passing the popcorn.
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