{"id":1801357,"date":"2023-01-10T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801357"},"modified":"2023-01-10T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:19:19","slug":"eternals-actor-said-hollywood-wont-cast-non-white-people-as-bad-guys-despite-his-desire-to-play-a-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eternals-actor-said-hollywood-wont-cast-non-white-people-as-bad-guys-despite-his-desire-to-play-a-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eternals\u2019 Actor Said Hollywood Won\u2019t \u2018Cast Non-White People As Bad Guys\u2019 Despite His Desire To Play A Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feternals-actor-said-hollywood-wont-cast-non-white-people-as-bad-guys-despite-his-desire-to-play-a-villain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>\u201cEternals\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Actor<\/a> Kumail Nanjiani said he\u2019d like to star in more villain roles but was told studios refuse to cast non-white actors into those parts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\">Hollywood<\/a> now \u2014 even though they\u2019re trying to be more diverse \u2014 is still weird,\u201d The star, 44 years old, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/uk\/culture\/tv\/a42430017\/kumail-nanjiani-interview-chippendales\/\">Esquire U.K.<\/a> During a recent interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nanjiani then stated that while it was well-intentioned, restricting certain races playing these roles is hindering those actors Hollywood studios claim to want to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s just as limiting as anything else,\u201d The \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d Actor said. \u201cI want to play more bad guys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned Sebastian Stan who is most well-known for his role as Bucky Barnes\/Winter Solider in Marvel&#8217;s superhero Marvel. Stan is also a cannibal for the 2022 horror movie. \u201cFresh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe does these big Marvel movies, and then he\u2019ll play a psychopath,\u201d Nanjiani observed. \u201cI was told that\u2019s going to be hard because people don\u2019t want to cast non-white people as bad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the actor said he doesn\u2019t believe he would have been cast as Somen \u201cSteve\u201d Banerjee at the Hulu Limited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\">Series<\/a> \u201cWelcome to Chippendales\u201d if it hadn\u2019t been based on a true story. Esquire asked him if he believed the role, which was based on an Indian immigrant, would have been played by a white actor.<\/p>\n<p>Nanjiani previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/kumail-nanjiani-interview-welcome-to-chippendales-1235283319\/\">discussed<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter explains the role in greater detail. He also expressed his desire to portray a villain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never gotten the opportunity to play a character like this, who has such a big arc and a descent into darkness. I\u2019ve always [wanted to play] the bad guy \u2014 I don\u2019t mean just guys who were kind of sh**y; I mean a bad bad guy,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story itself was so exciting and unexpected,\u201d He spoke of the Chippendales&#8217; retrospective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are, like, 20 unbelievable things that happen in the course of our show, and that all happened in real life,\u201d He went on. \u201cAnd it had interesting stuff to say about the American dream and how accessible it is to different kinds of people, and to see that through the lens of an immigrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an immigrant, and I had a certain idea of the American dream before coming here. And now, obviously, that\u2019s evolved. To be able to explore that through the eyes of someone who, in some ways, had a similar experience to me is rare,\u201d The actor stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEternals\u201d actor Kumail Nanjiani said he\u2019d like to star in more villain roles but was told studios refuse to cast non-white actors into those parts.\u00a0 \u201cI think that Hollywood now \u2014 even though they\u2019re trying to be more diverse \u2014 is still weird,\u201d the 44-year-old star told Esquire U.K. during a recent interview.\u00a0 Nanjiani went &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1801360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[14275,6107,7086,11245,6202,6992,4535,4361,13648,4370,4599,11857,6195,4324],"class_list":["post-1801357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-eternals","tag-actor","tag-bad","tag-cast","tag-daily","tag-desire","tag-guys","tag-hollywood","tag-non-white","tag-people","tag-play","tag-villain","tag-wire","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}