shymexx:
I know - but she had other commitments. However, is there any other naija actress on Thandie's level in Hollywood? Bear in mind that people sponsored the movie and they're looking to make profits as well - hence why they went for the big names.

Sophie isn't Tutsi but Rwandans never complained about her role in Hotel Rwanda.

manny4life:

Haba, you never give up.. Btw, Robin Hood was a good movie.

That it's an Igbo story doesn't mean she wanted the cast to be Igbo, all she was saying like you reiterated robin hood and Russell crowe, the both of them could have at least tried to portray a Nigerian accent.

As for "African Accent", I don't know about you, but African have their own accent. Ghanians speak totally different from Nigerians, and Sierra Leone speak differently from Cameroonians. Even me sef can identify who a Ghanian and Cameroonian is from their accent.

I believe her argument was simply that they just tried to speak anything African as supposed to something Nigerian.

coogar:

i never said she wanted them to be igbo but she wanted them to speak the igbo accent as the story was set in igbo.

coogar:
is there a language called "african"? if there's none then how can you have an african accent?

coogar: if that's what she meant then she did a horrible job getting her message across. she didn't need the "robin hood" example then as it's the wrong analogy.

shymexx:

I know - but she had other commitments. However, is there any other naija actress on Thandie's level in Hollywood? Bear in mind that people sponsored the movie and they're looking to make profits as well - hence why they went for the big names.

Sophie isn't Tutsi but Rwandans never complained about her role in Hotel Rwanda.

coogar:
i made mention of this earlier. the nigerians complaining will not even go to the cinemas and watch neither will they buy the original copies in DVD.

tayo eleshin is another good british-nigerian actress & oyinka yussuf isn't far behind....

Afam4eva:
I liked Sophie in Hotel Rwanda but the bolded is wrong. There's no American movie set in Africa that has been made that people from that country did not complain. The world world thought Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo killed it but Rwandans thought otherwise cos they know their accent better than anyone else.

shymexx:
It's business and the people who put their money down want something back in return. It's not for charity.

Both aren't on Thandie's level - they don't have that celebrity effect yet. What movies have they done? Just a few soaps and probably low budget movies.

Afam4eva:
I liked Sophie in Hotel Rwanda but the bolded is wrong. There's no American movie set in Africa that has been made that people from that country did not complain. The world world thought Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo killed it but Rwandans thought otherwise cos they know their accent better than anyone else.

coogar:

did nigerians complain with tears of the sun? did somalians complain when black hawk down was made? nigerians complain too much.....if imo actors were used, anambra people would complain. if nnewi actors were used, awka people would complain.

hell, if the first daughter in a house won the role, the last born would shout discrimination.

coogar:

did nigerians complain with tears of the sun? did somalians complain when black hawk down was made? nigerians complain too much.....if imo actors were used, anambra people would complain. if nnewi actors were used, awka people would complain.

hell, if the first daughter in a house won the role, the last born would shout discrimination.

shymexx:
Lmao at the bolded!

Someone already asked if they shot the movie on Nnewi street, on this thread.

Afam4eva:
I complained about "tears of the Sun" and a lot of people that i know did even though the movie wasn't really big in Nigeria even though being about Nigeria. There's no movie that produced on the surface of the earth that will not be critiqued. People will critique movies based on what they know and how they felt those movies should have been done. Of course a movie about Nnewi may be look alright to Enugu people but NNewi people themselves may see a flaw in it because they're Nnewi people and they know Nnewi more than everybody else. That's what it is. At the end of the day, you can't please everyone. The producers of the movie just have to do what they can and leave the rest.

shymexx:

Lmao at the bolded!

Someone already asked if they shot the movie on Nnewi street, on this thread.

coogar:

i didn't even see that comment when i wrote that - it just goes to show the mentality of an average nigerian - we are a very difficult people to satisfy.

Afam4eva:
I think you meant Nsukka street.

Humans beings are very hard to satisfy and it's normal cause nothing can be perfect. It's only when there's perfection that there won't be complaints.

Afam4eva:
I complained about "tears of the Sun" and a lot of people that i know did even though the movie wasn't really big in Nigeria even though being about Nigeria. There's no movie that produced on the surface of the earth that will not be critiqued. People will critique movies based on what they know and how they felt those movies should have been done. Of course a movie about Nnewi may be look alright to Enugu people but NNewi people themselves may see a flaw in it because they're Nnewi people and they know Nnewi more than everybody else. That's what it is. At the end of the day, you can't please everyone. The producers of the movie just have to do what they can and leave the rest.

shymexx:
Don't be surprised when they start saying some of the people there don't look Nigerian...

coogar:

thandie looks like an affluent calabar woman. chiwetel can pass for an abia state man. boyega had the peckham swag in the trailer - he's definitely got the aura of davido. who else??

coogar:

thandie looks like an affluent calabar woman. chiwetel can pass for an abia state man. boyega had the peckham swag in the trailer - he's definitely got the aura of davido. who else??

some-girl:


I have a major problem with the accents.
Good actors should learn accents and should be convincing. Non Africans like to believe we all speak the same, sound alike and look alike. Makes life easy for them especially foreign directors of African movies.
These same people would get offended when their accents are faked incorrectly.
Mel Gibson's and Russell Crowe's attempts at Scottish and Nottinghamshire accents respectively were criticized, although theirs were errors that would go unnoticed by those who aren't familiar with the accents.
Thandie and Noni Rose didn't even make any attempt to sound Nigerian. They seemed to have decided that any accent they could manage that sounded remotely African would suffice.

shymexx:
You know John Boyega the young Denzel is from peckham, right?

That's Pecknizzy right there reppin' for the mandem!

coogar:

i saw attack the block eons ago - he killed it! peckham produces more talents than any UK postcode. it's the equivalent of ajegunle for that alone.

shymexx:

I know - but she had other commitments. However, is there any other naija actress on Thandie's level in Hollywood? Bear in mind that people sponsored the movie and they're looking to make profits as well - hence why they went for the big names.

Sophie isn't Tutsi but Rwandans never complained about her role in Hotel Rwanda.

CFCfan:
Tonto Dikeh and Mercy Aigbe are slightly better than Thandie Newton.

shymexx:
These people need to start paying homage to Peckham... Pecknizzy!!!

We're the shining stars of black people in the UK and Africa!!

philfearon: Chai!! So now,Foreigners are now Acting our own History for us?
God Punish Backwardness!

CFCfan:

Tonto Dikeh and Mercy Aigbe are slightly better than Thandie Newton.

coogar:

isn't JJC from that end too?

shymexx:
Nah, they're from Lambeth.

Asher D from So Solid Crew is from Peckham, tho.

adaobi123: Hmmmmmm....at the end of the day as long as I dont waste my £6/7, I'm okay

shymexx: @Coogar
I forgot Chiwetel Ejiofor is from Camberwell as well..

Reppin' the same Southwark council - it's Peckham and Camberwell link up in this movie like we do everyday in real life!!

coogar:

read the book first before watching the movie....