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Why should Nelson Mandela be played by a South African actor? | Zukiswa Wanner

20 March 2012 4:40 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Must all German film roles be acted by Germans? Of course not. The idea that British-born Idris Elba can't play Mandela is daft

I was a South African tween growing up in Zimbabwe when my mother acted (or rather, appeared on screen for 45 seconds) in a made for television film starring Danny Glover as Nelson Mandela and Alfre Woodard as Winnie. In her role, my Zimbabwean mother knocks on the window and reminds the American actress about a women's meeting ending with a raised thumb and that very South African expression, "sharp".

If some arguments are to be believed, my mother, Alfre, Danny and the many other non-South Africans who acted in this film should not have taken the roles they did, and instead South African actors should have. And the film should have been made in South Africa. It was not; it was shot in Zimbabwe. South Africa was burning at the time. »

- Zukiswa Wanner

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