This guy can’t be serious … Ridley Scott Explains White Washing His “Exodus” Movie As the premiere date looms near for his “Exodus” film director Ridley Scott is further explaining why he just HAD to white wash the production. As previously reported Scott said that he cast “ major actors from different ethnicities to reflect the diversity of the culture.” Now he’s flat out saying that he casted the film the way he did (with popular WHITE actors) because actors named “Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such” wouldn’t get the movie financed. DassKindaRacist. Variety.com reports: Like most high-profile religious pictures since Martin Scorsese’s 1988 “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “Exodus” became the subject of intense media scrutiny before Scott had ever exposed a frame of (digital) film on stages at London’s Pinewood Studios and on location in Spain. Much of the outcry online stemmed from his decision to cast white American, European and Australian actors in most of the key roles, no matter that the same could be said of “The Passion of the Christ,” “Noah,” “The Ten Commandments” and virtually any other big-budget Bible movies. “I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott says. “I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.” SMH…sooo basically eff giving a proper historical depiction and just focus on the moolah??? Got it. What a lazy azz answer. What do YOU think about Ridley Scott’s reasoning???
