Re-blogged from my post in Bristol's Inter:Mission... In Hollywood there are many actors fighting for good roles who can claim to be looking up at a glass ceiling. These actors are all competing with the archaic image of the ‘tall dark and handsome white male’. Life to these actors is like living in a never-ending episode of Mad Men, with Don Draper look-a-likes at every turning. In the late 1950s, Sidney Poitier helped blaze a trail for young African American actors, by approaching the … [Read more...]
