Race Row Erupts Over 'Hobbit' Casting

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Race row erupts over 'Hobbit' casting

Peter Jackson's troubled The Hobbit project has been embroiled in a race row after a casting agent was sacked for telling a would-be extra she was too dark to play one of the pint-sized creatures.

The independent contractor who made the comments and placed an advertisement in a local newspaper specifying female hobbit extras "should have light skin tones" had been dismissed, a spokesman for Jackson's Wingnut Films said.

"No such instructions were given, the crew member in question took it upon themselves to do that and it's not something we instructed or condoned," he told AFP.

The row erupted after Briton Naz Humphreys, who has Pakistani heritage, attended a casting session in the New Zealand city of Hamilton last week, queuing for three hours only to be told her skin tone was not suitable.
"It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin," Humphreys told the <I has="2">Waikato Times[/I] newspaper.
"The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned."
Humphreys has started a Facebook group called "Hire hobbits of all colours! Say no to hobbit racism!"
The Waikato Times said video footage showed the casting agent telling people at the audition: "We are looking for light-skinned people. I'm not trying to be â€" whatever. It's just the brief. You've got to look like a hobbit."
The agent also placed a classified advertisement in the <I has="2">Bay of Plenty Times[/I] listing essential requirements for potential hobbits, including age, 16-80, and height â€" below 170 cm for men and 158cm for women.
The additional demand for light skin tones applied only to women.
Humphreys said she was a huge fan of Jackson's Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy and, at 1.5 metres, had hoped for a bit part in <I has="2">The Hobbit[/I], a two-part prequel to the original movies.
"I would love to be an extra," she said. "But it just seemed like a shame because obviously hobbits are not brown or black or any other colour.
"They all look kind of homogenised beige and all derived from the Caucasian gene pool."
In Lord of the Rings, Tolkien described three races of Hobbits inhabiting the Middle Earth fantasy world which is the setting for the movies, including harfoots, who "were browner of skin" than the others.
The Wingnut spokesman said anyone who met the height and age criteria was free to audition, regardless of skin colour.
"The crew member in question has been dismissed from the show," he said. "It's something we take very seriously." The spokesman did not say when the sacking occurred.

He said casting for the US$500m project, which has been dogged by problems, had been contracted out, adding "we obviously have a very large crew, it's a very large shoot".
A union dispute on the set of The Hobbit saw studios threaten to move it from New Zealand last month, until the government stepped in with generous tax breaks and changed industrial laws to prevent future unrest.
Previously, it had been stalled for years by wrangling over distribution rights, reported budget blowouts and financial woes at the MGM studio, prompting director Guillermo del Toro to quit earlier this year.
It is scheduled to begin filming in 3D next February with Jackson back in the director's chair and Martin Freeman from The Office starring in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins.
Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/8173071/race-row-erupts-over-hobbit-casting

Paki hobbits, eh? What's next? "Afro-Caribbean" Noldor elves?
 

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Can't wait for this movie. Hope this woman's attitude will impel the SWPL types to realize that no matter what they're looking forward to, and no matter how much their kids deserve it, the Jews and most of the blacks have only one goal: Take it away and urinate on it.
 
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Note how our jewish enemy refers to Whites as "homogenized." Pretty funny considering that White appearance spans the full spectrum of hair and eye colors. Meanwhile other races are almost completely uniform in appearance, but that's "diversity" in the sick mind of the nation-wreckers.

Hopefully this wakes up some more people. "How come Whites can't have anything for themselves but every other race can?"
 

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Why, I wonder if I would be allowed to play Nelson Mandela in a movie about his life? If they tell me im the wrong skin color, can I cry racism?
 

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Run Stuffing LB said:
Note how our jewish enemy refers to Whites as "homogenized." Pretty funny considering that White appearance spans the full spectrum of hair and eye colors. Meanwhile other races are almost completely uniform in appearance, but that's "diversity" in the sick mind of the nation-wreckers.

Hopefully this wakes up some more people. "How come Whites can't have anything for themselves but every other race can?"
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Skin color, like height or accent, is an acceptable attribute when casting actors. Or maybe not. Why should short people be given an advantage when it comes to casting hobbit extras? Surely there are tall people who would like to earn $20 a day standing around enduring the boredom of movie making.

'Hire hobbits of all heights! Say no to hobbit heightism!'

"...It's 2010 and I still can't believe..."

Thank you Ms. Humphreys. I don't own a calender so I'm often clueless as to what year, or even decade, I'm living in. Just imagine, it's already 2010. Which can only mean the year before was 2009. Astounding.

My only wish is for an all-black hobbit movie. Or all Pakistani. Or all half-caste, with Ms. Humphreys pulchritude prominently displayed. Swarthy little hobbit.
 

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This whole thing sounds like a planned stunt to cause a controversy. The media bemoaned the fact that the LOTR trilogy was devoid of any "people of color" in the character roles. It doesn't matter to them that the mythology of Middle Earth is based off of European culture and folklore. It doesn't matter that it would appear absolutely ridiculous to have ******* Elves running around with corn rows. It doesn't even matter than non whites were used in roles where they were in heavy makeup, such as some of the Orcs. It only matters that Whites are never allowed to have anything to ourselves. Even our very literature and our legends must be perverted to fit this insane Multi-Kulti agenda. Groups decried the last Air Bender as racist and many media ran with this because one of the characters was played by a Caucasian. If MLK or Malcolm X were to be played by a White person it would also be called racism. Basically everyone else is allowed to have their own thing except Whites. Calling Whites racist is just a code word for saying that Whites need to be destroyed. We know it for a fact, the Diversity pimps have said as much when talking amongst themselves.
 

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Run Stuffing LB said:
Note how our jewish enemy refers to Whites as "homogenized." Pretty funny considering that White appearance spans the full spectrum of hair and eye colors. Meanwhile other races are almost completely uniform in appearance, but that's "diversity" in the sick mind of the nation-wreckers.

Hopefully this wakes up some more people. "How come Whites can't have anything for themselves but every other race can?"


As always, your post is succinct, yet brilliant.

You know the western soul is incurably ill with unambiguous anti-white fascism when even white midgets (sorry, "Little People"Â￾) are considered "skin privileged."Â￾

J.R.R. Tolkien, though an ingenious author and storyteller, was a rabid "Anti-Nazi"Â￾ (because that viewpoint takes so much courage) / semi-Zionist and was always boisterously appalled whenever his works were criticized for being pro-white.

Acting work in Australia and New Zealand is pungent with Affirmative Action Legislation. I'm not sure why those inherently handsome devils would need "help"Â￾ from white do-gooders to land acting jobs"¦those monstrously hideous Aboriginal Australian pie-faces (equipped with those lumpy, gourd-shaped noses) are perfect for selling products in TV commercials and acting in sitcoms and movies.Edited by: Thrashen
 
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They should hire her to play an orc.
 

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Tell Spike Lee to put white guys in his movies who aren't such stereotypes, and maybewe'll have a black hobbit. BTY how many black people saw Lord of The Rings anyways.
 

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This is just another chapter from the insane multicultural agenda being pushed down on us from every angle.

Take a look at some of the biggest grossing movies in history: The various trilogies (the original Star Wars films, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, the Bourne series, etc, etc), Spiderman, the entire James Bond series, Titanic, the list goes on. People of color are virtually non-existent in these movies, and no one gives a damn.

Generally, people will go and see a good movie, sometimes more than once, and the box office totals will reflect that. The best movies have all one thing in common, a nearly all-white cast.

The Lord of the Rings movies are among my favorites, and as someone has pointed out, the entire story is based off of European culture and folklore. I have no desire to see a movie with hobbits of Pakistani, aboriginal, or some other politically correct ethnicity running around, so hopefully this upcoming installment will feature the correct cast like the previous 3.
 

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screamingeagle said:
They should hire her to play an orc.


Miss "Naz" appears to be the by-product of a no-holds-barred back alley encounter between an orc and somenameless, particularly misshapenminion of Darkness(both parties being well fuelled by potent, gut-searing home-brew, the requisite revulsion-busting aphrodisiac).

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