Will Smith Puts On Hollywood’s "African" Accent
This is not the first time that an American actor has struggled to authentically portray an African.
by Omar Mohammed, Quartz
Sep 11, 2015
3 minutes
Hollywood has an Africa problem. The latest manifestation of this is the trailer of Will Smith’s new film, Concussion, in which Smith plays the real-life Nigerian pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu.
In 2002, Omalu that the hard hits that football players receive in the National Football League may cause serious brain damage. His revelations, published in a 2005 paper in the journal threatened to kill the game. As the 2013 “League of Denial” shows, Omalu faced significant pressure to stay quiet about his findings.
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