Samuel L Jackson said that black British actors had different experiences of race relations John Lamparski/Getty ImagesSamuel L Jackson has criticised the casting of black British men for leading roles in films revolving around American race relations. He said that casting directors were drawn to black British actors because they were cheaper and classically trained. Jackson, who by some accounts is the actor with the highest grossing box office figures of all time, said that films about African-Americans enduring racism would have benefited from having American leads. The 68-year-old, one of the stars of Pulp Fiction, cited the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr biopic Selma, starring the British-born actor David Oyelowo, and Get Out, featuring fellow Briton Daniel Kaluuya as an African-American who suffers racism dating a white woman. Jackson told Times2, for an interview published today, about the threats his…

Source: The Times March 09, 2017 00:22 UTC