Ahead of the release of Ridley Scott's biblical epic Exodus, there were naturally concerns about the "white-washing" of the movie's characters, causing an irritated Scott to declare in an interview, "I can't mount a film of this budget...and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. I'm just not going to get it financed." Though Scott's response was indelicate and insensitive, he certainly wasn't wrong, yet his brutal honesty totally rubbed people up the wrong way. While the tendency to slather white actors in make-up to give them a more "ethnic" look has always been a bit embarrassing, there's positively no way that this $140 million epic would exist if more "appropriate" actors were cast, because for the most part, white people like watching white people. Christian Bale gave a more tactful and sensible response by declaring that, if everyone were more supportive of North African and Middle Eastern filmmakers and actors, then the financing would also come along with it.
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