it kind of sounds like he is just trying to hype himself or get attention for a project to me... I mean, I dont know, I cant imagine it would make much difference having amixed relationship in a movie like that,,,, I cant imagine wanting to watch a movie like Hitch whatever race any of the leads were... but I wouldnt even think about it in terms of going to see a movie... I suppose there may be a very small number of KKK/Ayrian Nations fruitcakes who might nit like it, but are these people teh target audience for Romcoms anyway?
Obviously, there is racism in the UK as well, but in terms of the few organised racist groups it is not really aimed that much at blacks, more at Southern Asian's/Islam & Sikh - and much more at "Asylum seekers" and illegal immigrants - who are mostly East European. I honestly cant imagine anyone in the UK caring about romcom's having two black leads (in fact, there have been some that have that I can think of)... I couldnt imagine anyone anywhere caring about it to be honest.
As for the "racism" in the oscars stuff... I think thats a bit silly. Jamie Foxxx won best actor this year, and Halle Berry won best actress a little while ago, lots of black actors have won awards, and lots of white actors, and so on...
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