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by Adam Chitwood Posted:August 26th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
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The cast of Ben Affleck’s next directorial project Argo continues to be awesome, as Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler is the latest to sign on. The Warner Bros. pic now boasts Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Scoot McNairy as part of its stellar cast. USA Today reports (via The Playlist) that Chandler’s role is a small one, but doesn’t add any further details. The film is based upon a 2007 Wired magazine article entitled “How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran.” The feature documents a rescue mission launched by the CIA for a group of diplomats in Tehran that involved a rouse to convince the Iranian government that the diplomats were actually a Hollywood film crew scouting locations.
Affleck is set in the lead role as the CIA exfiltration expert who develops the plan, with Arkin playing a Hollywood producer who’s also an O.S.S. veteran and is described as “equal parts bookie and rabbi,” Cranston onboard as an Irish CIA agent from Boston, and Goodman playing Oscar-winning Planet of the Apes makeup artist John Chambers who aids the CIA in their mission. George Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing under their Smokehouse banner. Argo is eyeing a 2012 release.
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Thank you but no, more movies pitching our country against others or makin fun of them.
I thought it was time for making friends.
Chitwood, this cast isn’t “awesome”.
Affleck is playing a role that could’ve given a big opportunity to a Latino actor and instead he took it for himself. This is a prime example of Hollywood’s discrimination against non-whites. Latino actors barely get 2% of lead roles in Hollywood.
This discrimination is blatantly staring you in the face and you are choosing to ignore it.
Politicaly correct aren’t we today? Tell me, when the hell we supposed to be “friends” with Iran? You try to be friends with their government officials and it will get you no where. Then there’s the cry for “opportunity”. Tell me, where will find an A-list and/or not been recycled over again in the past as a token latino? Big latino names seem only to be found in the directors chair.
It’s not easy to find an A-List Hollywood Latino actor because Hollywood doesn’t give them any chances to rise to the A-List.
This is common sense. A-List actors don’t grow on trees. They are given opportunities and they rise up the ranks. Hollywood doesn’t give those opportunities to nonwhite actors.