hi! i just read your post about fans placing celebrities on pedestals, and i agree! i got curious when i read your tags tho, would you mind talking abt why you donāt like jb? itās okay if you donāt wanna answer, thatās totally fine. i was just curious bc it seems like heās widely loved, so seeing a different pov is interesting
once, samuel l jackson (one of the first black jedis???? the irony) critiqued peeleās get out and pretty much suggested how get out couldāve played out differently in terms of emotional range and/or story if a black american had been cast instead of a black british guy. he never said daniel wasnt black. he never said the movie or acting was bad. he only suggested something. and basically jb got up in arms about it and really acted out on twitter and that was a huge turn off for me. but its not the first time heās done that, he tends to always react that way when those types of topics come up, which i find a little odd and questionable. as someone who has one american parent and one foreign parent, i think theyāre pretty valid critiques but jb always seems to get hot and bothered by it for some reason and it rubs me the wrong way because he really does act like he has a chip on his shoulder or some superiority complex when it comes to his acting career in american media vs british.
i personally, think its valid cus racism can be very different depending on the region in which someone grows up in. again, samuel didnt say a thing out of pocket but both jb and daniel skewered it into something it wasnt. i dont think jb is a bad person or anything, i just think the way he reacts to things shows heās set in his ways and not really a nuanced guy and would invalidate peopleās differences when it comes to experiences.