During his appearance on the Earn Your Leisure podcast hosted by Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, Larenz Tate expressed his viewpoint regarding the contrasting treatment of Black American actors and Black British actors in Hollywood.
According to Tate, the entertainment industry tends to give preference to talent hailing from overseas.
“I don’t look at it as a competition. I look at the collective,” explained the 47-year-old. “There’s brothers who are doing it, whether they’re doing it here in America, whether they doing it, you know over, from the U.K. or even from the mother continent, Africa. I’m cool with whatever it’s gonna be.”
“But I feel like Hollywood believes there’s more value in British Black actors than they do in Black actors,” he continued. “And I think a part of it goes into, that ‘Oh, they have an audience over there, so they translate internationally.’ Going back to that, what I think is, you know, a hoax. That we don’t sell or we don’t, we’re not valuable. I think they put that in the mix.”
“I think that Hollywood is in love with the U.K. and all things British. And so, I feel like the Black American actor, is, you know, I see what that decline is. But, you know, we’re here,” adding “But I love the collective…they killing it.”
Larenz Tate Reacts To Rise of British Black Actors: “Hollywood Believes There’s More Value In British Black Actors Than Black Actors” pic.twitter.com/0DSljTR9hJ
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