The New Black Face? Celebrities In Trouble Over Skin Color
- By
Meg Butler
Zoe Saldana And Cynthia Mort
Can a black woman put on black face?
Many Nina Simone fans were upset with director Cynthia Mort’s decision to cast Zoe Saldana — a light-skinned Afro-Latina woman — as Nina Simone in her biopic. Simone was a dark-skinned African-American woman from the South whose skin color and experiences helped to shape her music, her activism and her career. It also didn’t help that Saldana had to wear a prosthetic nose and dark makeup to look like the music legend.
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