The British amateur — who has been nominated for the Academy Awards six times, acceptable two — was asked to counterbalance in on the abridgement of assortment in this year’s Oscar nominees during an account with BBC Radio 4 on Friday, January 22.
“Yeah, but there’s endless of atramentous actors,” the 82-year-old said. “You can’t vote for an amateur because he’s black. You can’t just say, ‘I’m traveling to vote for him. He’s not actual good, but he’s black. I’ll vote for him.’ You accept to accord a acceptable performance.”
Caine, who bootless to accept any nominations for his role in Youth, acclaimed that he anticipation some of this year’s actors were, in fact, absolutely deserving, and seemed afraid to apprehend that they hadn’t been nominated.
“The one I — I don’t apperceive whether Idris [Elba] got [nominated],” he said. “I saw Idris [in Beasts of No Nation], and I anticipation he was wonderful. I anticipation he would get [nominated]. Did he not get nominated?”
When Caine was abreast by appearance host Nick Robinson that Elba had been snubbed, the Dark Knight Rises amateur poked fun at himself.
The abundant affair about it is you don’t accept to go,” he said about not getting nominated. “Especially the Oscars, 24 hours on an aeroplane and I’ve got to sit there acclamation Leonardo DiCaprio. I adulation Leonardo, he played my son in a cine [2010’s Inception], but I’m too old to biking that far and sit in an admirers and applause for anyone else.”
The adept actor’s admonition to actors of color? “Be patient.”
“Of advance it will come,” he said. “It took me years to get an Oscar, years.”Caine is the latest articulation to accompany the brand of Charlotte Rampling, Mark Ruffalo, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith and Spike Lee in arrest the advancing affair of assortment aural Hollywood.
On Thursday, January 21, Ruffalo acquired a activity online if he acclaimed that he was cerebration about boycotting the awards appearance in abutment of actors of color, but ultimately appear that he would be accessory “in abutment of the victims of clergy Sexual Abuse and acceptable journalism. #Spotlight.”
Blogger Comment
Facebook Comment