Not Again!

Avery Tooley, a black moderate-conservative blogger, questions some Hollywood casting choices: "Over the weekend, I messed around and watched parts of the X-Men trilogy again. Each time, I was struck by how poor a choice Halle Berry was to play Storm. I don’t know if I can quite say it was the worst casting I’ve ever seen, but it was pretty bad. The only thing that character had in common with Storm is that they were both Black. Other than that, nothing. All that 'regalness' that comes with being a princess/goddess? Not even close to being there. Honestly, her performance is painfully bad. And I know the producers are more interested in selling tickets than necessarily remaining true to the comic book mythology, but Angela Bassett would have been a far, far better choice as Storm - even down to the look of the character."

He continues: "Now, Afronerd is saying that they’re thinking of casting Beyonce as She-Hulk. No. No. It wouldn’t be as epic a fail as Halle as Storm, but it’s bad just on the face of it. Honestly, I can’t see any real upside except that Beyonce can get certain fans into the theater. But if they wanna use a Black actress for She-Hulk, there have to be other options."