2/28/05
i pulled this artcicle from IMDB and im betting it'll probably be the most racist thing ill see in print all week;
Eva Mendes was cast as Will Smith's love interest in new movie Hitch to avoid upsetting race groups. Movie bosses feared handing a Smith a black leading lady would alienate white audiences and a white actress would upset African American film-goers - so they settled on a latina. Smith explains, "There's sort of an accepted myth that if you have two black actors, a male and a female, in the lead of a romantic comedy, that people around the world don't want to see it We spend $50-something million making this movie and the studio would think that was tough on their investment. So the idea of a black actor and a white actress comes up — that'll work around the world, but it's a problem in the US."
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