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Could Mehdi Ouazzani ever be hired for a jig as an Obama lookalike? Nah. No way, even with a hoodie and makeup.
Why is Satan wearing a hoodie?
Also, as just pointed out by the producers, Mehdi Ouazzani had appeared in a number of Biblical epics and played Satanic roles long before the election of Barack Obama.
So who is going to play the Antichrist then if they wasted Ouazzani on the Devil?
Racist.
rip trayvon!!!
He has a lucrative side business as a suburban Skittles distributor.
They really ought to have gone with the safe route of only using voice actors for God & Satan. CGI God is shown as a Burning Bush, and CGI Satan is a Flaming Asshole.
Ow, suddenly sitting down is not very comfortable.
I can see where people might think this guy looks like Obama if he were 10 or 20 years older. But I bet if you cast any one of thousands of African or Middle Eastern guys people would see the same resemblance. Obama is part Kenyan and part Northern European; I have no idea about Ouazzani’s family, but I know Morocco is nowhere near Kenya. On the other hand I bet someone could write a sociology paper about the fact that this Moroccan actor keeps getting cast as Satan in Biblical epics.
I haven’t seen the show. Is the whole cast Middle Eastern, or just the bad guys?
Can’t. Stop. Laughing
Executive producer Roma Downey plays Mary.
The guy in makeup looks a helluva lot like Obama, at least in the stillshots I’ve seen. If I had to guess, I’d imagine it was done on purpose. Also, when in our pop culture is El Diablo ever represented by someone of African descent? :dubious:
ETA: Just saw SpoilerVirgin’s post. Seriously? I must not be brushed up on my Biblical saga viewings.
This is so perfect I have to share:
History Channel’s The Bible devil looks like Barack Obama
But not JUST the Bible and Obama, nooooo, to me he looks more like Obama and Emperor Palpatine had a baby. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
There you go folks, your cultural literacy for 2013 in one little blip. The Bible, Barack Obama, and Star Wars.
Aw crud. Will the mods merge?
or just shut down. phooey.
Merged the two threads.
I’ve been watching it and, frankly, it didn’t occur to me at all. The only place he’s shown up so far was in the temptations of Jesus, and with the color pallete and the way the scene was done, it was pretty hard to even tell the guy’s race. It really seems more to me like people either looking at it as “Obama is the Anti-Christ” or the opposite extreme and make the connection.
I also don’t get the criticism that all the key roles are beautiful people. Yes, many of the women are beautiful, but in a lot of cases, they’re specifically said or believed to have been beautiful, like Delilah or Bathsheba. I certainly don’t think the actor playing Abraham, Samuel, Saul, Nathan, or Jeremiah were beautiful people. I do think some of their casting decisions were interesting, many of the people were of Middle Eastern decent, but if anything I like that some of the ones were filled by black actors, since they’re probably as or more likely to be around than white ones. Mary and Jesus are both clearly white and attractive people, but I also think the actors fairly well resemble a lot of the art we’re familiar with, so its a reasonable casting decision to me.
Frankly, I don’t see the controversy here at all as anything other than getting worked up over nothing.
searches dictionary.com
:eek: Akk! It’s official…I am a racist!