12 years a slave was possibly one of the most popular movies of
2013. It follows the life of Solomon Northup, a black man born free in
New York but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept
in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War.
The movie is the reason why our very own Lupita Nyongo is currently the ‘it’ girl in Hollywood following her sterling role as Patsey a slave. The movie has been screened in many places and Lupita has dressed the part for all these screenings but the starlet has chosen to bow out of the Italian screening of the Steve McQueen movie at the 18th Annual Capri Hollywood film festival.
This comes after the Italian promoters of the movie appeared to focus upon the film’s white cast Rather than the black main star, Chiwetel Ejiofor .Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender were given a prominent feature in the promotional posters while the lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is squeezed in a tiny, hardly noticeable picture at the edge of the poster. These posters have sparked sharp criticism with people saying that the posters were ‘a unashamed display of racism.’
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