Actress Thandie Newton is speaking out. She recently admitted that she was approached to star in the 2000 Charlie’s Angels movie. However, after having meetings with the director and former head of Sony Pictures, she decided it was better to stay away from the project.
Thandie revealed, “One of the biggest movies I didnโt end up doing was because the director said to me, ‘I canโt wait for this. The first shot is going to be โฆ Youโre going to think itโs like yellow lines down a road, and you pull back and you realize itโs the stitching because the denim is so tight on your ass itโs going to look like tarmac. I was like, ‘Oh, I donโt think weโre going to go down this road together.'”
Actress Thandie Newton talks why she didn’t take a role in ‘Charlie’s Angels’
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Thandie also claims that former Sony Pictures head Amy Pascal made racially insensitive remarks to her. She said, “Sheโs [Amy] basically reeling off these stereotypes of how to be more convincing as a Black character. Everything she said, I was like, โNah, I wouldnโt do that.โ Sheโs like, โYeah, but youโre different. Youโre different.โ That was Amy Pascal. Thatโs not really a surprise, is it? Letโs face it: I didnโt do the movie as a result.”
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Amy stepped down in 2015 after some emails got leaked. In the emails, she discussed whether Barack Obama liked movies better with Black casts. She later issued an apology for those emails and stepped down. Now, she apologized again after hearing Thandie’s statement.
Amy said, “While I take her words seriously, I have no recollection of the events she describes, nor do any of her representatives who were present at that casting session. Iโve long considered Thandie a friend; Iโm thankful that Iโve had the chance to make movies with her; and I hope to work with her again in the future.”
Thandie also recently spoke out against Tom Cruise. Watch below: