Black people in French cinema? The question causes a blank. As for artistic agencies, "we prefer not to communicate on the subject" . Crossed at the turn of a press conference, the directors Jacques Audiard and Bertrand Bonello have "not much to say on the question" . Even among the actors concerned, we dodge: "I do not have the serenity necessary to publicly address this difficult question" , answers Adama Niane ( Le Gang des Antillais ). Jean-Pascal Zadi did not wish to express himself in Le Figaro on this sensitive subject. The actor and director however puts his feet in the dish in Tout simply noir. Two audition scenes show the strength of prejudice. In the first, he is asked to interpret a suburban dealer, rapist and Islamist. In the second, Mathieu Kassovitz, a slave casting director, measures the spacing of his nostrils to assess his credibility in the skin of a slave.
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