'Hancock': Will & Charlize Movie (update)

[kenny_g]

How does the wife feel about that? (if she is still alive.)
If she isn't how in the hell are they getting away with that? Because this girl is full blooded hispanic
http://www.daniaramirez.net/news.html

Sorry to give a lecture but there is no such thing as full blooded Hispanic. Hispanic is not a race. Perhaps you meant full blooded natives (which for better of worse is the term I will use for the indigenous people of those lands). Most Latino stars though are either white or mestizo (mixture of white and indeginous people). Also a very large number of them are black or a mixture of black and something else.

Daniara Ramirez is a mix and in her case she has some African blood in her. She was the original choice to play the wife when the film was about to shoot two plus years ago (back then it was called "True Blue" and was to be directed by Antoine Fuqua). But when Ridley Scott picked up the film a couple of years later most of the cast (outside Denzel) had been changed. Ramirez is not playing the wife in the film but some websites still have yet to update their information and still list her. That's just sloppiness and laziness on the websites' part but trust me she is not playing that role.

And IMDB is not trying to cover up anything. IMDB, unlike the other sites, updated its information.

Heads up on the hispanic thing lecture you learn things everyday :lol:

But IMDB did had her listed on there, they had to change it about a month ago, Im seeing it now that lymari nadal is listed on there but it is still does not say that is his wife, I agree IMDB do update but somethings they leave as is and they left that as is.

 

[kenny_g]

I don't know about that. In real life Franck Lucas' wife, as she is in the movie, was a former Ms Puerto Rico. Now there's a chance she could have been white (Spaniard/Spanish) but I think from what I once heard she was actually mestizo. In fact in the film though the actress is apparently mestizo her character's father is played by Joe Morton, an African American actor. So for all we know in reality the Puerto Rican wife may have been a Latina of African (or partially African) descent like so many of the folks from that island. When Antoine Fuqua was directing the film he indeed cast a black Hispanic actress to play the part of the wife. Of course that whole thing fell apart and the film was put on the shelf for about two years. So who knows. I have never seen a picture of the wife or heard a description of her. In the New York magazine which the movie was based on it was mentioned she was a former Miss Puerto Rico but did not describe her in any way. She may have been mestizo, black, white or a combo. I'll try to look into it.

JS,

My bad -- you're right...Frank Lucas' wife was Puerto Rican. I saw her pic somewhere, and I thought she was white cause she was a light-skinned Puerto Rican.

Here's Denzel with the actress, Lymari Nadal (she's married to Edward James Olmos in real life), who plays his wifey:

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0765...jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Nadal, Lymari

The Kid Rasta 8)

Yeah because I was about to say how in the hell would they get away with a true story on bm, ww interracial and make the woman other. I knew something didn't sound right.

 

[Obsidian71]

Even if they had more autonomy its the success part that woud still be a bit difficult since non-black people tend to not support films with a majority black cast. And its even worse, on that front, outside of America where black films do horrible business.[/quote]

I agree. The black community has lost control of the "black dollar". I know I haven't supported black films enough myself and I hope to change that. There's just a sense of apathy that is hard to shake out of people.