June 1st, 2012
03:53 PM ET
Michelle Rodriguez: No Oscar nod for Nicole Kidman“Avatar” star Michelle Rodriguez may have stepped in the proverbial hornet’s nest with some eyebrow-raising comments she made in France recently. The outspoken actress was speaking to New York magazine's Vulture last week at an amfAR event when she offered her take on Lee Daniels’ new film “The Paperboy.” To the question of whether one of the film’s stars, Nicole Kidman, could potentially earn an Oscar for her controversial turn in the flick (she "pees" on co-star Zac Efron in one scene) Rodriguez promptly shot the possibility down. Her reason? Kidman's neither “black” nor “trashy.”
"One of my friends said, 'She’s going to get nominated for an Oscar for that,’” Rodriguez said of the buzzed-about film. “I was like, 'Nah, man. She’s not black!'" "I laugh, but it’s also very sad," she added. "It makes me want to cry. But I really believe. You have to be trashy and black to get nominated. You can’t just be trashy." |
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I beleive she meant that for that role, it would have made more sense for the actress to have been black and because of that, it wasnt a strong enough character for a nomination. Shes right. It's sad, but its kind of the way it works. You wont win an oscar as white trash because people are more touched by black trash (because of all the struggles for racial equality in the past). However, she did say it in a way that was insensitive, but I do think she was just noticing something that is part of American culture these days.
Michelle, any respect that I may have had for you is completely dissipated. I truly hope that your words get you banned from every set imaginable. And that all people of every race finds your words disgusting, heartless and disturbing.
i think people hoping she loses her career are really rude.
they don't have to like her but it's not fair to her fans just because you have a problem with her.
don't watch her movies.
think she's racist.
even though i think everyone should be viewed as and individual and not a race.
it's a skin color, nothing more.
i could tan just enough and be of equal color. -_-
people just love drama and feeling sorry for themselves.
She is a fool for saying that – joking or not. I'd say she was jealous or was robbed of a nomination to make her bitter (no excuse) but she doesn't make anything worth seeing much less receiving an Oscar nomination for. That said, what was is her supposed point or motivation for saying this? I hope it enrages enough people that she is forced to stop acting. Then it would be worth it.
Interesting but not surprising. She is about 1/4 Black herself according to her recent DNA test with Louis Gates. Her family married first cousins together in order to keep the light skin going, and keep the dark from resurfacing. Y Tu Abuela?
Who cares about what Michelle said....Nicole Kidman pees on someone on screen?? What the....??????
I dislike racist meddle in black affairs Hispanics.
I guess she thought Viola Davis (nom and lost to Mettle who is white) and Halls the ONLY Black, actually half white to win EVER in Oscar history.
This chick sounds so stupid. Guess she's ok with white people and hates black people. She missed being in Fast 5 except for her pic being shown at the end cause she was in prison. Who's trashy!?!
Who is readjustment and black that gets nominated? MOST of the Nina are white! She sounds like an idiot. Her own history was being in prison. That's how she missed being in Fast 5. A lot of mouth and very little sense!
Emmmm golden showers....
Apparently, she does not watch the same Academy Awards ceremony that I watch - the one where 98% of the nominees are white I never understood why people are so jealous of blacks that they have to throw there personal slang's out there about them to make them self's feel better people are too lame smh lol
You can't say anything about black people, otherwise they get all bent out of shape and call you a racist. Then before you know it, Al "fake" sharpton gets involved. Black people = Drama!
Spoken like a white person who has never experienced racism simply for something you have no control over. By the way, I don't want to have control over it. Evidently she hates black people, but sounds stupid since 99% of the nominees are white. I guess she thought Viola Davis was readjustment while
Lolz
you could say anything and black people will make it racist.
Oh yea,and I could say anything that doesn't relate to you and white people would make it their concern.
she is an angry stupid ho bag
Itstrueboutblackytheyarenastytrashy
Dadada
Was just thinking of her today and how the first kick ass Hispanic female I remember was Vasquez on Aliens (the 2nd one). Kept rooting for Michelle when she had drinking problems and the wreck. Now...sorry you lost this fan.
What about Lucille Ball ?
Glad that Michelle lost a fan in you (she's not a good actress in any sense of the word). Also, Vasquez in "Aliens" was played by Jennette Goldstein, who is a very good actress, and (unless I'm mistaken) not Latina. Ignorant comment on her part...
She appears to still have a drinking problem. Nobody in their right mind would make a comment like that/def. Not in public when your "image" is your livlihood.
I wonder is she thinks Vin Diesel is trashy cause yeah he's Black and The Rock too (Dwayne Johnson) while Vin helped make her career in the Fast 5. Now she just made sure Black women will hate on her when the next one comes out if she's not locked up again.
Eso es justo, correcto soltar lo primero en su cabeza en su lengua materna y escupirla.
Thats right, just drop the first thing in your head on your tongue and spit it out.
Oh well, whatever.. good to see Michelle finally waxed off that annoying moustache.
I think Michelle was joking, but sometimes jokes contain some truth. Once I see a black actor/actress win an Oscar for playing a positive but flawed character as opposed to the usual criminal and/or harlot roles, only then will I think things have changed. For examples look at 'The King's Speech' or the insipid 'Black Swan' for the type of roles I speak of. When a foriegn-born actor/actress wins, it's usually for that type of character (flawed, but overall good). Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, anyone? My other pet peeve with the Oscars are their total disdain for comedies.
You go michelle! She has got a point. Don't deny it folks.
You keep saying that,what point she got?
"shesgotapoint – You go michelle! She has got a point. Don't deny it folks." Yes, and you have a point too, but if you wear a cap, it might not show...
She doesn't have a leg to stand on with her point. If she said Black people only get nominated for unsavory characters or downtrodden roles then maybe I'd agree, but to say ONLY Black trashy people, not roles only get the Nina when Halle Berry is the only woman to ever win a best actress in almost 80 years is plain stupid!
Now that I think of it WHAT MAN REALLY WANT TO PLAY IN A SERIOUS WITH HER...
Only in America ... Still Racist from a Not So Smart One Way Role Actor.
she's fugly
Expected comment from a simpleton inbred with a name like "Jimbo."
It is quite sad that some of the best books are never made into movies
Thank you Michelle, I didn't realize Charlize Theron was black.
Man, I feel stupid! I was on this very site praising Michelle for being a Kick Ass action star. She's better than Angelina Jolie.IMO! She doesn't get the credit she deserves.Maybe that's why she is pulling the race card. I think she's implying that Nicole won't win because the Academy is handing out freebies only to trashy black actors.I am half black & hispanic by the way. The Academy could improve. A lot! But, she is really putting down Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, and Will Smith who were nominated for strong roles. Halle Berry not so much! Michelle should clarify what she meant.
CHARLIZE THERON IS NOT BLACK!!! Her father is French and her mother is German. She was raised in south Africa, which is not the same thing...& she just adopted an African-American baby.
Kim you missed the point entirely. He didn't say Charlize was black (and you seem really offended that she's even thought of as being black, though you still got it wrong). His point was that Charlize won the Oscar for monster's ball playing a horrible trashy character, trashy yes, black NO so BOTH you and Michelle don't have a clue!
Playing a hard working maid,chauffeur,drill sergeant or laborer is trashy if you're a black actor?But peeing on a man is classy if you're a white actress,wow,only in America.
Been saying that for years. If you're a Black actor or actress unless you're a crook, subservient, a Jezebel, part of some racism story, or some type of embodiment of a Black stereotype you can forget nailing an Oscar. They're not going to give you one unless you play a specific sub-set of roles.
Oh, who cares. She could have just been joking. People today get offended so easy. Written comments, emails, text messages, quotes..etc most of the time are usually taken out of context. Please, get a grip. People are tired of walking on eggshells when it comes to making any comments about black people. No matter what you say, or how you say it, it will always be read the wrong way..
Ughh!! People are being a little to over dramatic
I mean sure she has to "pee" on Zac Efron but c,mon
She is getting payed for it and I'm pretty sure she is not the only that has done something disgusting for money!!!! Like realy who actualy cares!!! No one! So quit hating!!! I'm done.t(o_o)t
Nvm
Uhhh she "peed on" Zac Efron???EWW!!
Wow! Rosie O'Donnell has lost a lot of weight and is looking younger than I remember her...
I think 'Butters' sums it up nicely.
Careful Rodriguez your mean is showing...and mean people will fail...BADLY.
Hahaha! Hilarious, Butters. It's to bad CNN comments section don't have like buttons. I was thinking the same thing about her, lol.
You know how disgusting the cabal in Hollywood is if someone is nominated for an Oscar in a film where they urinate on someone.
I used to think Nicole Kidman had class. No one with class would take a part where she is required to pee on someone or anything near it. It just looks like a race to the bottom these days.
She's a has-been who's just trying to say something controversial in order to stay in the limelight.. Aside from her arrests and public drunkenness, there's really nothing noteworthy about her. Besides, her comment doesn't even make any sense.
Oh? It makes perfect sense if you are paying attention to things.
I honestly have no idea what she even means. I'm too confused to be offended.
She is making an interesting point. Does a black actress/actor really have to do a memerable off-the-wall, trashy scene to be nominated in the Oscars? Are white writers subconsciously introducing elements of humiliation on the character to make it more appealing to the "like minded"?
Like it was implied in the movie "Inception"; the writers are the architects of our collective fantasy world. So is there still racism in today's movies? Like they say, "one picture has a thousand words" and "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
Hollywood has a VERY BIG RESPONSIBILITY on the influences of mass psychology.
Mike R,
You are so deep.
I don't understand her comment. She always seems angry.
Who is this Michelle Rodriguez?
...Michelle you forgot to add lesbian or jude.
Eh...not news worthy at all. I don't get what she meant, and at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. She might have meant that in a mean way, but as a black guy, it only makes my fantasies about her even hotter. I don't think this will end her career; its her history of being in trouble and saying other alienating things that has producers running for the hills from her.
I hope you aren't a black rapist. There are so many and you write like a pervert so it only goes with the territory.
Totally a black rapist....and I'm coming for yooooooouuuuuuuu! oogah boogah!
Michelle got beef with Halle Berry ....don't know why but she is definitely pointing her boney hand at Ms Berry on this one.
LOL!!!
silly thing to say. she just killer her career. wait, did i read that Kidman pees on someone. hell yeah!!!!!!!!
What about Meryl Strip?
There are extremely few black winners when compared to white winners so not sure Michelle is getting at. I'm sure her defence will be that she herself is "black" because she did that Louis Gates show where they track your ancestry by DNA and she's like 10% African.
Meryl Streep must be black and trashy, then. I had no idea
There isn't any logic whatsoever in anything Ms. Rodriguez has said. She is hopelessly ignorant . If you didn't know better, you'd think African-Americans dominated the Oscars. There have been only two AAF nominees in the last two years of the forty actors nominated. And only one has won.
Its a shame but you speak truth..this chick is high on her own supply of ignorance....
No, she is not acting anymore. Rumor has it, it's because she ate the movie producer and director from her last movie and then she turned around and ate her agent. Nobody wants to work with her anymore because they're afraid. Just saying what I heard. "NOT" being MEAN at all. This is what "I" heard. Blame the media for the mean remark.
Oh, man. I really liked her in Avatar. Pity.
what happened to that fat gal in Precious?
did she continue acting?
She stars in a showtime series I believe.
Why all the outrage. It's true.
the truth apparently is too much for people to handle or is considered racism for some reason
Ok so how many black trashy actors have won an oscar!? Seriously I do not know but I dont recall many at all.
And her trashy behavior off the set of" lost" that caused her to lose her job. Alcoholic, the nerve....
She's probably nursing a hangover as we speak.
How's the view from the toilet ........see your career anywhere down there?
Hehehe...she crazy loco....
I lover she tell,s it like it is
No, she tells it the way she THINKS it is. She's just another clueless idiot from Hollywood who can't act her way out of a paper bag. We've seen this movie before, and it was tedious then. NEXT!
I guess she forgot about Melissa Leo's "trashy" (poor, uneducated, irrational woman) performance that got her an Oscar for The Fighter. And there was the star from Winter Bones who was nominated for a role that many would call white trash. She one of those people who jumps each time a black person accomplishes something.
While I don't agree with what Michelle said, I see black people in almost every current American movie, which is fine, but where are the other minorities? For instance, in the last year I have seen only one movie where gay characters were featured, "J. Edgar" and latinos,Jews and Native American Indians, as well as Asians are in the same boat – they are almost non-existent in movies. When do we start seeing the other minorities?!
one movie with a gay character in the last year??? C'mon buddy, you must not watch very many movies.
Jews not represented as much as blacks? Really?
Popster, there r soooo many Jewish people in movies, you just don't know they are Jewish. Scarlett Johanssen, Nataie Portman, Alicia Silverstone, Mimi Rogers, etc are Jewish. I'l bet you thought they were just white girls. Sure, u are speaking about other minorities and stories centered around them, but Blacks r the only ones who wiil stand out b/c there color gives them away.
I did not realize Charlize Theron was black.
I don't get it,but she can do me.lol
Charlize Theron is technically "African American". She was born and raised in South Africa and later became a U.S. citizen. So she is Nationally African American. Not racially. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlize_Theron
She was white TRASH in that movie.
no but she is from south africa
Name one black nominee who got an oscar or nominated for one who was not playing a trashy character
Hattie McDaniel's Best Supporting Actress award for her unforgettable role as Scarlett O'Hara's devoted but sly Mammy in Gone With The Wind was significant. She was the first African-American Oscar nominee and winner – and she was the first black guest to attend the awards ceremony
Sidney Portier, Lilies of the Field. Denzel Washington...Glory
Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple. Just to name one.
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland; Jamie Foxx, Ray;Louis Gossett, Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman; Denzel Washington, Glory; Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby; Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field and more. What's your point since you don't seem to have one?
It's these blanket statements that are so ridiculous. You are probably a birther. Do some homework from time to time. It might enlighten you.
All trashy Characters with the exception of Mr. Portier.
So I think Ms. Rodriguez is correct.
Will Smith for Ali, Jamie Foxx for Ray, Don Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda, Morgan Freeman for Invictus, Cicely Tyson for Sounder, Viola Davis for the Help.
Denzel Washington: Glory, Malcolm X
Samuel L. Jackson: Pulp Fiction
Morgan Freeman: Driving Miss Daisy
Just off the top of my head . . . and just saying.
Plenty, go to: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_can_you_find_a_list_of_black_Oscar_winners
Will Smith – Ali; Jamie Foxx – Ray Charles; Octavia Spencer = The Help ... shall I go on? FYI –> Black or African-American does NOT equal trashy
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
Ever heard of Sidney Poitier?
Now that you put it that way her comment makes a bit more sense. Although maybe 5 winners out of the 14 total played characters that were considered trashy unless you factor in the ones who were playing maids (2 of them) which would then bring it to 1/2 the winners. If she meant that in order to win while playing a trashy character you have to be black then I could sort of see where she's coming from but it seems like what she meant came out totally wrong.
Jaime Foxx, Ray Charles
This is why women are oppressed in many other cultures. They don't make sense and they just embarrass themselves most of the time. Women belong in kitchens and hospital labor rooms.
They should be allowed in the military for knob polishing duties. Our boys deserve the best ho's who can pass basic training.
Well, when men start behaving like men and not whiny babies depending on their wives to wipe their husband's butts and pay the bills and keep house and raise the kids and bring home the 'bacon' and cook it...then we will happily move back to the kitchen.
Until men 'Man Up' women have to pick up the slack.
You Sir are an idiot. I bet you dropped out of high school. BTW your mom is on her period.
I am a male Lesbian. I wonder if I have a shot with her.....
Well I guess CNN is happy this crap will be at least 3OO comments full by Monday morning,because no one here is racists,it's just our opinions.
Nah, you have to be Latina, Gay and Trashy...
I'd rather be that than white, uptight, and politically contrite...
Maybe rodriqquez can get an oscar for being a man. Boy does she have manly features. I wonder if she is jealous of hard working Blacks in the industry. Anyhow she needs to shut up and find herself a bottle to suck on
@ Kelly, that is not what she was trying to say at all! She said exactly what she meant!! Her view was racist but it also highlights how black talent is overlooked smiply because a black person isn't expected to be talented. Look at the music industry. Singers, such as Beyonce are looked upon as a trashy ghetto black singer while white singers such as Lady Gaga are heralded as some music genuises. It's wrong period
Seems like a lot of people mistook what she said, she didn't say black people in Hollywood are trashy, she saying if you're black and you want to get nominated, you have to play a trashy role. Not sure why she is being raked over the coals for stating the obvious.
'Stating the obvious?' Did you not read the above comments about the large number of black actors who did not fit that category? Are you stupid or something?
Good Lord, is she on bath salts and eating peoples faces? Please stop trying to justify you're life based on being non-black.
Your time will come. Until then try and you will be able to be someone!
Good one...crazy week for humanity.
She's was just being sarcastic at how Hollywood treat non white actors.
I get her point- black actors mainly get oscar nominations for 1 of 3 categories 1) playing a biopic figure – malcom x , ray charles , ali, iddi amin, tina turner 2) maid, chaffeur or butler – the help , driving ms daisy or 3) playing a criminal or trashy figure like Denzel in training day , halle berry monsters ball. Black actors dont get nominations for run of the mill roles like meryl streep . Meryl streep can play a housewife and get nominated. 90% of all nominations for black actors fall into these categories
You ain't never lied
Well, her career might survive...as long as she doesn't comment bad about jews
To be fair she was probably drunk and behind the wheel when she said it.
Odd coming from a young woman whose genetic profile reals that she is 25% black.
Not odd at all, when whites adopt or give birth to biracial children one of the first things they try to instill in them is how their white contribution or raising makes them "better" than other blacks–the families reinforce this–(this mostly comes from white women) of course, what the white mommas fail to see is that they can embrace and support and denigrate blacks to their offspring or adoptees, but when other whites view their child–since it is not their own pet biracial or african baby, then THEIR child becomes just as denigrated as all other blacks–the sad thing is, all blacks are not trashy or horrible or ghetto or all anything–they are just people and even though some may kill or do drugs or other stuff–a great many more do none of those things but are always condemned by whites even as whites try to copy the looks and actions of the people they supposedly look down on.
This girl is a product of her upbringing which means somewhere deep inside, she probably hates a good 25% of herself.
I just saw her with Gates on Youtube: 72.4% European, 21.3% African, and 8.44% Native American. Yeah, she is learning about her ancestry.
She was being sarcastic. Geez, some of you refuse to use your brains.
If she was being "sarcastic" in the present atmosphere of heightened racial tension and animosity–then it is SHE who failed to use HER brains. Funny thing is, I never heard of this person until she made these comments–and now my impression of her is not very nice, at all.
Well queen sounds like you are out of touch if you dont know who she is so your opinion is irrelevant and ignorant.
It doesn't make any more sense as sarcasm than it would if she was being serious.
No one cares about your opinion, queenbee, because you are a racist. How does your life feel with all that hate burning you up inside?
What's that fizzing sound? Her career going to join Mel Gibson's.
And now she is going to be BLACKballed from hollywood?
Black people win oscars?
Since WHEN? (barely.)
??
DOES BIEBER KNOW ABOUT THIS ?
Every one has a right of opinion. What's the problem if someone has different opinion than you??????
Thank you! A very appropriate comment.
Then, how come Michelle Rodriguez has not won it?
Yeah because we all know how disproportionally blacks or any minority really, are represented in Hollywood. They throw a few scrapes at a couple of black actors and all of a sudden getting nominated is a "black" or "trashy" thing. Unreal.
There is a great pic of her in a see-through bikini on Yahoo News where you can totally see her lips and everything. She's smooth, in case you wondered.
My last comment was deleted. I say again, Ms. Rodriguez was probably misquoted or her comment taken out of comment. A common practice these days.
The poor dear has never been the brightest lightbulb in the marquee. She has a long history of dimwitted philosophical musings. She is the female version of a dumb jock who should stick to grunting.
So she is a female Andrew Dice Clay?
Sounds like Michelle needs some publicity and attention. She's not a dumb woman. Even if she didn't mean it the way people are taking it. She knew that people would take it the way their taking it. Shout out to her publicist. And to Justin Biebers people for the fake fight.
actually, she is dumb. very very very dumb. go to her imdb page and check out her quotes. she has some real headscratchers. it is bush jessica simpson territory.
You people are thinking to hard and trying to make something outta nothing. Go and watch your Inside Edition and STFU
Sounds like she's taking a jab at the Academy and their penchant for giving Oscars to prim, white actresses.
So is she saying Nicole wouldn't get an Oscar for peeing on someone because she's not black and therefore not trashy? Or, was it an attempt to make a veiled criticism of the industry? Or, does she truly believe that Nicole is too white and therefore, too classy to portray trashy? Oh, never mind.
Natalie Portman and Sandra Bullock – both less black, and definitely less trashy than Michelle Rodriguez – yet both won Oscars recently. So maybe, just maybe, it is about talent?..
The Oscar awards nomination/selection process is purely subjective and political.. Whether someone is a good actress or not is simply a matter of opinion.
..but Sandra bought a black African baby–Michelle will probably point out that little guy was Sandra's ticket in.
What she is trying to say is that no one can win if a role calls for trashy behavior unless they are black–when blacks play trashy roles they get nominated because they fulfill hollywood and the media's stereotype of how black people are (most Americans have no clue that over 75% of all Blacks are above the poverty line and that with 3 million people in prison and around 6 million on welfare, that most blacks are neither in poverty, on welfare or in jail–because people believe what they are told and not what they take to find out for themselves.
She is saying blacks have to fulfill the role of trashy in many films and for that they can get an Oscar BUT if whites fulfill the role of trashy in a film they usually do not get nominated–of course, this negates the movies of Slingblade, and the movie Sissy Spacek won an oscar for playing a white trash farmer, and other movies.
We can understand her point, but the way she made it is pretty sad and actually has SOME truth in it but is not 100% accurate (In the "Life of Miss Jane Pitman" I believe that Cicely won an oscar, did she not? It was not trashy at all.
What a stupid thing to say, some stars need to just keep their mouth shut
I think people need to read a little bit more closely at what she is saying. She is saying actors/actresses don't get nominated for "trashy" roles unless they are also of color. She isn't saying the only people winning Oscars are black and trashy...that is obviously false. What she is saying is if you are playing a "trashy" role (I havne't seen the movie she is referring to but I assume the character is trashy considering she urinates on someone), you will not be honored for doing it well unless you are also of color.
So you're saying that Hollywood is racist?I'm shocked!
You are correct. She was clear and unambiguous and you can tell from the casual honestly of the response and language of the quote. What everyone in this thread is apparently missing, however, is her not-so-subtle reference to the "make me feel good" actress Halle Berry. I don't have even a cursory knowledge Ms. Rodriguez personality (or "dumbness") outside of her movies, but of her point, it was quite deep.
Maybe her comments were taken out of context... I mean, Michelle Rodriguez is part black herself, and seems very proud of the fact...
She means that if you are TRASHY in a film, you can't get nominated unless you are BLACK too. Examples: Monique in Precious, Halle Berry in Monster's Ball, Denzel in Training Day. She's commenting on how RACIST Hollywood is. Name a black actor nominated for a role that wasn't stereotypical of black society....you can't. Black actors only get nominated when they fulfill stereotypes or play slaves, servants or angry.
Sidney Portier
Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar for the movie "Ghost" and her character was not a slave or servant and was far from angry. Also, I recall Lou Gossett Jr., winning for his role a very disciplined Marine Sergeant.
Roland you got it perfectly! Thanks for once again giving me hope for the survival of intelligence in America! 😉
Oh Michelle. People aren't going to understand whatever it was you were trying to say.
Plus, Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for a role that was not trashy in Lilies of the Field. I like Michelle, but she probably doesn't remember back that far.
Roland I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I didn't even think about it like that.
Then why couldn't she say that: "You can't win or barely get nominated if you're black UNLESS you are TRASHY too"?? It comes off alot different then...
at least this beats watching the stock market or the economy!!! ;0)
Oh sleepy ones.
Please don't make this news.
Research Bilderberg.
boycott!!
I'm not sure what oscars she's been watching!?!?! Daniel-Day Lewis, Sean Penn, Jeff Bridges, Collin Firth, JEAN DUJARDIN!!! Meryll Streep, Natalie Portman, Sandra Bullock, kate Winslet!?!?!?!? These are like the anit-color, anti-trashy actors and actresses!!! If anything, the academy is racist! You're a wack job!
Umm...actually, what she's saying is that the Academy is racist. Plus, they like trash. Wouldn't you agree that the Academy is racist if they only give Oscars to black actresses. If not, then maybe one of us should reassess the definition of racism. Just a thought...
sounds like a hater for real!
She's not black and she got her face and comment in the paper. Maybe you have to discriminate against people and be racist eh Nicole.
The only reason for this article is even online at all is spelled out in the articles authors name, Post by: Tomika Anderson
wow.....maybe you have to be latino and play a refugee!
Yum yum gimme some!!!
What?.......teh what?
Nicole Kidman won an an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002.
Interesting comment but it got her in the news. I think that is what she was after. When you think about it, actors make these controversial statements to get attention and get publicity since most can not earn it on pure talent.
Her comments are soooooooo OFENSIVE...How can anybody actually believe that? Where does one draw that type of conclusion from. Trashy and Black.....that's so racist. So is she saying everytime a black actor wins an Oscar its just because they are trachy or black, its not because they have any talent at all.....Amazing!!! I used to actually like this girl....not so much anymore.....
You took the words out my mouth. I liked her too. She must referring to Lee Daniels last film but this umbrella theory is pathetic. If so many black people were getting noms there would be a lot more with awards.
What she's trying to say is that it's very difficult for black actors to get nominated for an Oscar if they are playing someone who is classy, wealthy and educated. If they are playing a trashy character they'll get nominated or win. A good example of this is Precious, Monster's Ball, The Help... great acting amazing talent, but the characters could be described as "trashy" or better described as uneducated and poor. In contrast to this, very few white actresses have been nominated for playing "trashy" characters, the exception in recent times being Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone. But they tend to get nominated for playing Virginia Wolf or Margaret Thatcher. Cate Blanchett is a good example of this double standard. When she plays "trashy" women brilliantly like in the Gift or Little Fish there's no way that she'll get a nomination. When she plays Queen Elizabeth or Katharine Hepburn or a journalist or a teacher... instant nomination material for her. Roles for African American women are still so limited in variety that sadly I can't even come up with a good counter example to Blanchett. I think that Rodriquez's intention with this statement is meant to say less about Nicole Kidman's oscar chances (not getting nominated probably has more to do with the fact that she can no longer move her face.) than it is a statement about the limited diversity of roles available for actresses which stems from society's preconceptions of acceptable roles for actresses and women based on their race and gender. I think this preconception exists for actors as well, but not nearly to the degree that it exists for women.
I like my women just a little on the trashy side.............
Actually –
I'm going to check into those comments. They're appauling, but I honestly haven't been paying enough attention to the oscars to know if there's any truth. (Unlike the rest of you commenters, I don't dismiss an opnion just because I don't like it, nor just because it's easier to just play the racism card). Why don't we all check the facts?
So Joe just how are you going to determine if someone's trashy?
Michelle Rodriguez calling something trashy is like David Duke calling something racist.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Yep, I agree. She's got the trashy part down on her own, Hollywood or not. Giver her a few day, she'll be walkin' them words back, making the rounds on late night cryin' and complaining about how she was mis-quoted when we all know dang well what she meant. An she got some color in her too? Pathetic piece of....#@!!!
She is soooo smokin hot.... she can say anything she wants
Totally agree...she's SO hot.
Stay classy, Michelle.
I'm still trying to figure out who all the of black and trashy actors/actresses are. They all must have been nominated before the year I was born.
She's acting like blacks get handouts...but in reality, it only highlights that Black STEREOTYPED roles are rewarded, while Blacks playing decent roles and doing phenomenal jobs in film, are NOT rewarded.
What a racist latinabitc
Uh, that IS what she was saying. Those who play up the stereotypes best get nominated.
With this comment and your rules for nomination you are already NOMINATED
Sound like Maria or Michelle or whatever wants a handout.
Once again a white hispanic attacking black people.
I lol'd so the back of my head feels like it's received multiple punches.
Cameron Diaz is a white hispanic (Cuban), Michelle Rodriguez definitely recognizes her African roots as a Puerto Rican and Dominican. She's not saying blacks are trashy, and therefore thats the only way they get nominated. What she is saying is that blacks only get nominated for playing trashy and poor roles. That they don't get nominated or win an Oscar for playing upstanding, smart, educated roles. Monster's Ball – Halle Berry, Training Day – Denzel Washington...etc. It was a criticism of the Academy Awards not of black people or black actors/actresses.
It does help. Now if they throw in Hispanic you unfortunately still would not have a chance.
Coo coo
Letty, Please shut up and go make me a sandwich..YOU EMBARASS ME!
You look tired, I think you should come upstairs and give me a massage
No Michelle you won't get nominated because you're not great of an actress. What did being black having to do with it, you're wrong your comments surely qualifiy you to be TRASHY...Don't get it twisted..
...And a drunk lol,true.
Do you read or just skim? Michelle was talking about Nicole... not herself.
Name one black nominee who got an oscar or nominated for one who was not playing a trashy character?