Winnie Mandela Trailer:
Another Mandela Movie
Whether it was two movies about Truman Capote, Alfred Hitchcock, Snow White, or that comet that almost destroyed the Earth in the nineties, every once in a while Hollywood finds itself with two movies about fairly similar topics coming out around the same time. This year, the subject is Apartheid and the Mandelas. We already saw a trailer for the hotly anticipated, Idris Elba-starring Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and now we have Winnie Mandela, a biopic about Nelson Mandela’s wife, an activist of note in her own right. (Apartheid also plays a small yet notable part in The Butler.) Jennifer Hudson plays Winnie and Terrence Howard is Nelson. The film has actually been around for a while, playing at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, but it had difficulty finding distribution. The film opens on September 6, two months before Long Walk.
Jennifer Hudson and Terrance Howard are brilliant actors and I enjoy there work. This is one project I refuse to support. I am tired of African American actors portraying important historical figures who were influential in South African’s fight against apartheid and how many times will we see Nelson Mandela’s role given to a non south african. There are enough south african to fill these roles instead of importing african american actors. South Africa needs to start telling their stories with their own actors.