Amandla Stenberg

Grant, Awkwafina.

Amanda Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Blythe Danner, Jake Johnson, Rob Delaney, Jemaine Clement.

Hold on, Mac.

I'm coming.

Big energy.

And we've barely seen Amandla Stenberg, who is the second female lead.

Big energy.

Energy.

So after Tomi initially announced the big casting call from around the world, they then begun to announce the actual cast, and it was all, um, Black Americans and British people.

And there was a backlash where people were like, "Oh, you kind of gave us hope that there were going to be Nigerians or even Africans or West Africans from the continent in the cast.

Where are they?" And then they also announced Amandla Stenberg, who is a light-skinned biracial actress, was going to be playing one of the main characters, which also led to some backlash because something that has happened several times now is that Amandla in particular, but also other light-skinned biracial actresses in Hollywood, have been cast to play monoracial-

Mm-hmm

It was fine.

But one district up, and they make Rue a Black girl, and this, at, and, and at the time, you know, Amandla Stenberg had it.

Wonder why they were friends.

She, and they-

Mm.

So I saw Damson and Amandla and Ira, and, like, we'll all get together, and it was really fun, but we all were saying the same thing about shooting out there.

Mm.

You know, we all put so much blood, sweat, and tears, and it paid off.

Other ones I'm looking for that I know in this mix...

Amandla Stenberg, who was the young Ruth of the Hunger Games.

She's got more movies coming out.

Kaylee Spaney, she was in Civil War, I saw.

But then listen to some of the names.

Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jermaine Clement, Richard E.

Grant, and Tom Waits.

That's not a voice cast.

According to the article, this simmering conflict erupted into a highly public, highly uncomfortable flashpoint.

The movie web piece details a moment where Adeyemi actually shared a screenshot of a text message she sent directly to Amandla Stenberg.

Yeah.

And the directive in the text is breathtakingly blunt.

Right.

There's context.

Amandla Stenberg had recently shared a highly emotional anecdote about a personal meeting with Ed Amey.

Stenberg recounted that during this meeting, Ed Amey revealed a foundational inspiration for writing the series.

And everyone was freaking out about...

What's the old girl's name? Amandla Stenberg.

She plays a character in this movie.

And they're like, oh, see? Colorism.

Like and also it's people claiming they've read the book, complaining.

You know, it's like when you know what they sound like.

They sound like the white people who are mad, oddly enough, about the same actress, Amandla Stenberg, being in The Hunger Games.

like what what is that damn darky doing in here playing this white girl but the thing is you're like and once again i i looked up the passage they never really explicitly say that you know to my understanding in the hunger games that that rue was white they never they don't they don't ever come i say the bitch white you know i mean so and honestly with amandala being as light-skinned as she is doesn't really fucking matter doesn't really matter yeah because because it just it is what it is at that point but yeah yeah i don't i don't know what that was necessarily in regards to um when i this motherfucker

Furthermore, you have to lock in the actors.

If Damson Idris and Amandla Stenberg blow up and become $20 million stars, their quotes for a sequel will skyrocket unless they are pre-contracted.

Which means the studio looked at the sunk costs, the sets, the VFX assets, the casting, and decided that moving forward was actually a higher financial risk than just walking away.

That's the only logical conclusion.