{"id":1542,"date":"2016-03-09T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T20:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2016-03-09T20:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T20:05:22","slug":"nina-simone-movie-trailer-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/nina-simone-movie-trailer-sparks-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina Simone Movie Trailer Sparks Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Author: Amy Nicole<\/p>\n

The first trailer for the Nina Simone movie that premiered last week has the internet going crazy but not in a good way.\u00a0 The movie titled \u201cNina\u201d stars actress Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone. \u00a0The film will cover the life of the singer and civil rights activist and it will chronicle her career demise and return to music.<\/p>\n

When it was first announced that Saldana would be portraying Nina Simone, producers were met with a lot of criticism particularly from black viewers who believed that an actress who better resembled Simone should have been cast for the role.\u00a0 Nina Simone had a very dark complexion and she was known for her strong ethnic features.\u00a0 I think the biggest issue with Saldana being cast for the role is that she does not identify as African American but as a Black Latino.<\/p>\n

Watching the trailer you can visibly see Saldana\u2019s heavy dark make-up and prosthetic nose. \u00a0Many have compared Saldana\u2019s appearance in the movie to a caricature. Singer India Arie is one of the many people who have spoken out against the film. She had the following to say about the casting choice:<\/p>\n

“I think the best way to say it is that they casted her against type and went too far to make her fit,” she explained. “It’s not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can’t say how anybody else perceives her either.”\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nina Simone\u2019s daughter, <\/em><\/strong>Simone Kelly says that she isn\u2019t upset with Zoe Saldana but is upset with the director Cynthia Mort for telling an inaccurate story of her mother. Kelly stated that the family wasn\u2019t consulted for the film.<\/p>\n

Honestly because of my age I wasn\u2019t too familiar with the life of Nina Simone.\u00a0 I knew she was a singer but I didn\u2019t realize how significant her legacy was until I recently watched the documentary \u201cWhat Happened Miss Simone\u201d<\/a> .\u00a0 I\u2019m interested in watching the movie and I\u2019m also a fan of Zoe Saldana so I will definitely be checking the film out.<\/p>\n

“Nina” is scheduled to be released on April 22, 2016.<\/p>\n

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Check out the trailer below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Atlanta Black Star<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author: Amy Nicole The first trailer for the Nina Simone movie that premiered last week has the internet going crazy but not in a good way.\u00a0 The movie titled \u201cNina\u201d stars actress Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone. \u00a0The film will cover the life of the singer and civil rights activist and it will chronicle her … Continue reading “Nina Simone Movie Trailer Sparks Outrage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[78,154,232,346,354,367,368,437,521],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-artist","tag-civil-rights-activist","tag-films","tag-movies","tag-musician","tag-nina-simone","tag-nina-simone-movie","tag-singer","tag-zoe-saldana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}