{"id":48472,"date":"2018-07-07T14:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T21:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=48472"},"modified":"2018-07-07T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T21:57:44","slug":"x-mens-alexandra-shipp-on-storm-casting-to-be-a-black-superhero-we-picture-them-looking-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=48472","title":{"rendered":"X-Men’s Alexandra Shipp on Storm casting: “…to be a black superhero, we picture them looking like us.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

DARK PHOENIX<\/a><\/strong> actress Alexandra Shipp<\/strong> isn’t apologizing for older comments she made while responding to criticism on social media of her being too light-skinned to portray Storm<\/strong>, X-Men’s mutant weather Goddess. \u201cThis conversation about Storm is so stupid, I\u2019m out,” she tweeted last year after a Twitter discussion erupted about colorism in Hollywood and her casting as the iconic mutant. “If I lose my job to another actress, I hope it\u2019s for her talent and grace, not her skin [color],\u201d she proudly stated.<\/p>\n

Speaking recently with Glamour Magazine<\/a>, she reflected on the discussion, saying: “[I tweeted back] at people who criticized me for not having dark enough skin for my role in X-Men because we\u2019re not going to have this conversation about a cartoon character. You\u2019re not going to tell me that my skin color doesn\u2019t match a Crayola from 1970. Growing up, when I was reading the comics, I pictured her looking like me. For any black girl, for there to be a black superhero, we picture them looking like us. So when I auditioned for the role, I wasn\u2019t like, ‘Oh man, I\u2019m not dark enough.’ I was like, ‘Finally, this is my moment.’ I\u2019m not playing Harriet Tubman with a prosthetic nose and darkening my skin tone. I would never do that.”<\/p>\n

Shipp made her debut as Storm in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse<\/a>. Being a X-Men<\/em> prequel (of sorts) set in 1983, director Bryan Singer has gone on record saying that he was explicit in casting directors finding an actress that resembled a young Halle Berry.<\/p>\n

Source: Glamour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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