Ne-Yo declines 'MLK' Movie starring role

GFunk said:
I thought Timberlake did a decent job in Alpha Dog during the more serious scenes. 50 was decent in Home of the Brave.
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i didnt see it until like 6 months ago on Netflix

as i wrote before, I think he did a good job too

if people havent watched it..look at it..even if its only because Jessica Biel is in it :smt049
 
I'm unclear why people think if you are a singer you can't possibly act. Most actors were waiters before they were actors........does that make you more supremely qualified??!

If you find Denzel's early movies I bet he sucks in them too. You gotta pay your dues and get better at your craft.
 
pettyofficerj said:
i didnt see it until like 6 months ago on Netflix

as i wrote before, I think he did a good job too

if people havent watched it..look at it..even if its only because Jessica Biel is in it :smt049
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Jessica Biel was the reason I watched it in the first place too. :D
 
GFunk said:
I thought Timberlake did a decent job in Alpha Dog during the more serious scenes. 50 was decent in Home of the Brave.
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For someone to play MLK I would you want more than decent fam. For iconic roles I like to see actual actors. I'm not against Neyo acting he was "decent" in Stomp The Yard but he ain't no James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman. Just wish we could go back to when people did just one fricking thing. Or be really interesting and go from acting to physics or from rapping to designing furniture. These people just seem like there's never enough attention
 
JordanC said:
I'm unclear why people think if you are a singer you can't possibly act. Most actors were waiters before they were actors........does that make you more supremely qualified??!

If you find Denzel's early movies I bet he sucks in them too. You gotta pay your dues and get better at your craft.
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All I can say is eh. True but eh.
Like I said it would be nice to see a well established or very talented up and comer portray such an iconic role. To be honest Neyo is too young to play MLK in my opinion anyway
 
IMO there is nothing foolish about Ne-Yo making his music a priority over acting. I think being true to oneself is always more admirable than being an opportunist. I have much respect for his decision.

His decision also leaves an opening for a real actor whose priority and passion is acting, which makes his choice even more respectable IMO.

As for the Will Smith comparison, he's much better at acting than he's ever been at music. Many rappers and musicians who try their hands at acting need to stick to music and leave the stage and big screen to real actors.
 
JordanC said:
I'm unclear why people think if you are a singer you can't possibly act. Most actors were waiters before they were actors........does that make you more supremely qualified??!

If you find Denzel's early movies I bet he sucks in them too. You gotta pay your dues and get better at your craft.
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Singers, especially rappers n shit, have a history of being shit actors, probably because they usually try to let their own personality mix with or take over the character rather than become the character 100 percent. Snoop is a perfect example. Every movie he's in is Snoop, not much of an actual character.
 
Ne Yo a homosexual
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pettyofficerj said:
lol

all bullshit aside snoop is the man

if u go anywhere around the world and say 'Snoop', people automatically know who u talking about
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Most definitely, you don't even have to say Dogg, he's on that one name status. His style, not just rapping, is one of those ones you can't duplicate just like that(although, he did model his rapping style after Richie Rich, but that's another story)
 
Tamstrong said:
IMO there is nothing foolish about Ne-Yo making his music a priority over acting. I think being true to oneself is always more admirable than being an opportunist. I have much respect for his decision.

His decision also leaves an opening for a real actor whose priority and passion is acting, which makes his choice even more respectable IMO.

As for the Will Smith comparison, he's much better at acting than he's ever been at music. Many rappers and musicians who try their hands at acting need to stick to music and leave the stage and big screen to real actors.
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In fact, Samuel Jackson and Anthony Mackie agree with you....;)

'Anthony Mackie Sounds Off on Rappers-Turned-Actors' --

http://www.bvonmovies.com/2010/08/19/anthony-mackie-sounds-off-on-rappers-turned-actors/
 
pettyofficerj said:
WILL

SMITH

THE

END

that rapper turned actor will fill more seats and sell more shit than Anthony Mackie (who?) will ever do
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LOL...but as Tam pointed out...

"As for the Will Smith comparison, he's much better at acting than he's ever been at music."

But forget Mackie, what about Samuel Jackson feeling the same way?

The highly talented and critically acclaimed Samuel L. Jackson says he will NOT work with rapper turned actors. He says that we will not even read a script that features a rapper in a starring role. Many will be quick to point out that he has done just that will LL Cool J in Deep Blue Sea. Which was a wretched, wretched movie by the way.

"To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility and weight that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker that's like an aberration to me," Jackson told the Sacramento Bee. It's not my job to lend credibility to so-and-so rapper who's just coming into the business. I know there's some young actor sitting in New York or LA who's spent half of his life learning how to act and sacrificing to learn his craft but isn't going to get his opportunity ... because of some actor who's been created."
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Ok, he did say this in 2002 and may have changed his mind since then. :eek:
 
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