Well, maybe not all of South Africa, but at least a portion of it might. She's set to play Nelson Mandela's wife in a movie about his life, but South Africans are apparently morbidly against using anyone outside of the country in a movie. AFP reports:
South African actors want to stop Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson from playing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a new film on the ex-wife of the nation's first black president, reports said Monday.
The Creative Workers Union of South Africa said using foreign actors to tell the country's stories undermined efforts to develop the national film industry.
"It can't happen that we want to develop our own Hollywood and yet bring in imports," the union's president Mabutho Sithole said in The Citizen newspaper.
The Creative Workers Union of South Africa said using foreign actors to tell the country's stories undermined efforts to develop the national film industry.
"It can't happen that we want to develop our own Hollywood and yet bring in imports," the union's president Mabutho Sithole said in The Citizen newspaper.
First off, learn to speak English if you're going to talk about "developing your own Hollywood." And second, if the U.S. had this mentality, we wouldn't have any movies. Pretty much everyone is from England or Ireland or Australia or some other place. Hollywood hates Americans.
