Actor Harry Lennix was originally offered the script for Lee Daniels upcoming film The Butler. Actor Harry Lennix states that help felt Lee Daniels script was one that continued to perpetuate the negative images of African- Americans that Hollywood loves to see and the actor refuses to portray any roles like that. Check out the full article at http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/harry-lennixs-take-on-lee-daniels-the-butler-and-it-aint-pretty#.UglponwMY4E.email.
This is a tough topic for me because while I can agree with actor Harry Lennix views on continuing to churn out black films that continue to portray us a domestics. However as a fan of black film and black actors in film; I love to see a majority black cast make a large Hollywood showing. I do wish that black Hollywood will start getting creative and begin to make a diversity of stories in film and yet have the films become huge hits
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