India Arie recently met with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about why she thought casting Zoe Saldana to play Nina Simone in the upcoming biopic was such a mistake. Arie spoke about a few issues, including the fact that the team behind the film is predominantly White.
“…There’s also a part of me that’s naïve and thinks, even if it were 98 percent White people involved in the making of this movie, it still could have been done right if they cared enough to do it right. But obviously, that didn’t happen.”
What are your thoughts on the matter? Are you going to see the biopic when it is released?
