Post by sgev1977 on Nov 10, 2021 14:48:59 GMT
BC was attached to it but he couldn't make it!
www.vulture.com/2021/11/passing-movie-significant-productions.html
I hope Rebecca Hall could be his director in the future!
EDITED I know that's not the point of the article and it's a shame they nedded a white male actor to obtain the money but this was a very random surprise.
In Passing, the Rebecca Hall film based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play childhood friends who have a tense reunion in adulthood. Irene (Thompson) is a middle-class Black mother living through the Harlem Renaissance; Claire (Negga) is passing as a white woman and married to a wealthy racist white man. And yet the star some of the film’s investors were most focused upon was Benedict Cumberbatch.
The actor had voiced an interest in playing Hugh, a writer friend of Thompson’s character. The role was tiny — it would shoot over three days and account for a handful of minutes onscreen—but for certain financiers, a Dr. Strange cameo was worth more than any of the other actors (including Thompson, who had appeared alongside Cumberbatch in Avengers: Endgame). By October 2019, it became clear Cumberbatch couldn’t make the timing work. Without the white star, a few of the financiers worried the movie would no longer be a viable investment.
The actor had voiced an interest in playing Hugh, a writer friend of Thompson’s character. The role was tiny — it would shoot over three days and account for a handful of minutes onscreen—but for certain financiers, a Dr. Strange cameo was worth more than any of the other actors (including Thompson, who had appeared alongside Cumberbatch in Avengers: Endgame). By October 2019, it became clear Cumberbatch couldn’t make the timing work. Without the white star, a few of the financiers worried the movie would no longer be a viable investment.
www.vulture.com/2021/11/passing-movie-significant-productions.html
I hope Rebecca Hall could be his director in the future!
EDITED I know that's not the point of the article and it's a shame they nedded a white male actor to obtain the money but this was a very random surprise.
