black british actors
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Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock Authentically Captures the Joyful Resilience of the Black Diaspora
When I went to London for the first time, I thought it was Jamaica. As a nine-year-old born and raised on the Caribbean island, I thought of the UK in terms of what I’d seen on TV and read in the literature books set in Britain that were part of my primary school curriculum—as a…
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Exclusive: Regina King Explains Why She Chose Kingsley Ben-Adir to Portray Malcolm X for One Night in Miami
Regina King’s feature directorial debut may chronicle one epic night, but she has many prominent days and nights to follow as the buzz mushrooms into a cloud of pressure, anticipation and attention. Recently premiering at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, One Night in Miami made history as being the first-ever film helmed by a Black…
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BAFTAs: No Nominations for You Cynthia Erivo (or Any Non-White Actors), but Can You Sing at Our Ceremony?
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has quite the audacity and the unmitigated gall. Following a PR nightmare with its all-white acting nomination list for the EE British Academy Films Awards (known as the BAFTAs), it looks like the academy’s nerve went even further than you can imagine. According to Variety, the…
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She’s Gotta Have It Writer Responds to John Boyega Regarding ‘Trash’ Black Brits Scene
In the fifth episode of She’s Gotta Have It’s second season, titled, “SuperCaliFragiSexy,” Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) and her new lust interest Olumide “Olu” Owoye (Michael Luwoye) are chillin’ on the couch discussing Black British actors’ impact on Hollywood. “Black British actors are better suited than black American actors because they don’t carry the burden…
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2019 BAFTAs: Nominations Are Out and The 'Rising Star' Category is Particularly Black AF
It’s that time again: the film industry across the pond is staking their claim within awards season with The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards nominees for 2019. Fun fact: some awards prediction experts also use what happens at the BAFTAs to determine what will happen at the Academy Awards because the…
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British Vogue’s Edward Enninful Threw Spike Lee a Blacktastic Party, and Our Invite Got Lost in the Mail
Clearly, we need to remind Edward Enninful of our address. On Saturday, Oct. 20, the editor-in-chief of British Vogue hosted a dinner for filmmaker Spike Lee in London, in honor of the BlacKkKlansman director “who has given so much to the creative industry over the three-and-a-half decades he has been working within it,” as written…
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Fashion and Fascinators: The High Style of Britain’s Blackest Royal Wedding (to Date)
It was a day seemingly made for happily ever after. On Saturday, Meghan Markle’s fairy tale came true when, at last, she married her Prince Charming Harry. The traditionally drizzly English skies gave way to dazzling sunshine, and as many anticipated, the ceremony was as refreshingly unexpected as the pairing of the biracial American actress…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw Gracing This Glorious Cover of British Vogue Is the Red-Velvet Magnificence We Need
A minor confession: Although Beauty and the Beast was my favorite Disney movie when I was growing up (bookish, socially awkward little girls, ftw!), I hesitated about, and ultimately didn’t watch, the live-action reboot. I stayed away because I simply couldn’t get over the fact that my perfect Belle, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, a woman so…
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Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya on Samuel L. Jackson’s Comments: ‘I Resent That I Have to Prove I’m Black’
Daniel Kaluuya has a few words for Samuel L. Jackson about being black. Last week Jackson questioned why Kaluuya, a British actor, was cast in Get Out, a movie that tackles race in the U.S., instead of an African-American actor, and said the role would have resonated more with an African-American actor. “Here’s the thing…
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Samuel L. Jackson Wonders What Get Out Would Have Been Like With ‘an American Brother’ as Lead
Samuel L. Jackson has some thoughts about black British actors securing American roles instead of African Americans, suggesting that perhaps black Americans could add some authenticity, especially when dealing with culturally specific things like America’s struggles with interracial relationships. During an interview Monday with Hot 97 while promoting his newest film, Kong: Skull Island, Jackson…