Emboldened by the Black Lives Matter movement, even joining in protest marches near his new Los Angeles home, Terrell is seizing his moment with all the power of Excalibur.
It’s an indictment on the local industry’s lack of diversity and a conversation Terrell hopes has been inspired by the racial uprisings around the world. Born to an African-American father and Indian Australian mother, Terrell has been confronted recently by the scars of his own experience with racism – desperate to make a difference.
He adds: “My thing as an actor, I’m educating myself every day and as a person of colour as well. I’m half African-American and my lineage has roots to tragic things, most likely and I’ve cried a lot during this period. You’re just having conversations now that you’ve always wanted people to talk about but they don’t believe you … they think it’s in your head.
“It was just that moment of walking on the streets … I was walking with my girlfriend and her friends in the marches and just feeling like ‘this is a moment and if we don’t capitalise on this, then when is the change going to happen? When are people of colour and those in the LGQBTI community going to gain the respect of the general community if you don’t take a stand?”
“It was one of those things where I wanted to get into the shape of what a medieval person would look like or move like. I didn’t want to go in there looking like Thor, no offence to Chris Hemsworth, but it was constant horse training and fight training and archery. Then the emotional stuff on top of that and learning your lines.”
Brad Pitt is going to play King of the Zulus.
I'm a Chinese jet pilot
Why are you saying 'black' thought that was racist!!!!!
Why the hell would you put a black guy as king Arthur? Bloody BLM toe sucking it rediculous.
How gives a shit?
Calm down folks - Arthur was in all probability a made-up character by medieval storytellers. He could be played by a unicorn and still be “historically accurate”.
A white business owner in Seattle was taking to task for cultural appropriation over her dreadlocks. These double standards are wearing very thin
Seems like a bit of a miscast. But i guess theres some fantasy element to this.
Good actors can play any role and have been doing it for years without anybody noticing till now. Only because of the stupidity of the Marxist BLM movement have people become obsessed with skin color, which has has a negative effect on race relations.
Why is it always only actors, sports stars or wannabe celebs complaining of racism? We never here it from anyone with real jobs that live in the real world.
Can’t wait to see a white Shaft!
Why bother calling it King Arthur then?
How would King Arthur be black ? Another “woke” movie coming.
Lacks the ability.
Well that's obviously everybody else's fault, not his lack of auditioning or acting skills
He may have been raised in Perth but he is American. He played Obama. Lives in the US and expects to be offered roles. Don’t you need to audition for roles as a relatively unknown actor.
Why does everything relate back to skin color? WhoCares
The Chinese Communist Party’s mate, its tag team player WHO is proceeding with the staged inquiry trip. The investigation will be no doubt conducted in designated places with decorated scenes in China leading to a sanitised report. Guess who is going to proofread that? The CCP.
King Arthur............okay.....
It was a similar story with Anthony LaPaglia who never got a look in with any roles in Australia and had to move to American to get roles.
Does this mean that whites can be cast as Martin Luther King or President Obama? Or is there a separate rule for the rest of us?
12 years a slave starring Tom hanks
Blatant lies people of all colours are all over Aussie TV, he knows that but needs to secure some victim status. Pathetic mate
I’ll soon be auditioning for the role of Martin Luther King Jr.....
All the extras are going to be white, since, you know, England medieval times. This makes no sense.
Picked the lightest skin black guy they could find to play the first “black” King Arthur . Why not get an actual African to play the role if that’s the direction the studio wants to go ?
wow, a black wanna be actor playing the role of a white legendary man. Makes as much sense as a woman playing James Bond.
More reverse racism.
TL;dr black man who got a part playing a white man uses opportunity to whinge that he doesn't get parts in country he no longer lives in.
Just like no non white tv presenters or journalists are present in Channels 9 and 7. 7NewsAustralia 9NewsAUS 9MelissaDownes racist racism
Oh my God, kids picked on his hair when he was a child. Traumatized for life. Where do these dicks get off? He has the role of King Arthur but can’t see that it is purely and perversely due to his color not his talent.
Get woke. Go broke. King Arthur was white.
Could you imagine if a white guy played Shaka Zulu or mansa musa
I think he looks handsome enough to play anything. How is the musical Hamilton going by the way? Was he Peurto Rican like Lin-Manuel Miranda, who played the original lead role.
King Arthur has to be played by a White Man sorry. This is Anti-White APPROPRIATION of Western Culture. If Black Characters should be played and voiced by Black Actors. ONLY A WHITE MAN is allowed to play the role of King Arthur -because he was a White Man.
I look forward to Netflix adaptation of Shaka Zulu featuring one of the Hemsworth's in Henry Cele's role
It's un-be-liev-a-ble that King Arthur isn't a woman
King Arthur wasn't a Black Man stupid casting Arthur Pendragon as one for the TV drama series.😠
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