Nina Simone Estate Tells Zoe Saldana To ‘Take Nina’s Name Out Your Mouth’

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Nina Simone’s property has once more spoken out towards the forthcoming biopic concerning the late jazz singer, this time responding to the trailer that premiered on Wednesday. 

The property’s Twitter account responded pointedly to a tweet from Zoe Saldana, who was already the topic of controversy for having apparently darkened her pores and skin tone with a purpose to painting Simone in “Nina.”

.@zoesaldana Cool story however please take Nina's identify out your mouth. For the remainder of your life.

— Nina Simone (@NinaSimoneMusic) March A, 2016

Critiques of Saldana’s casting escalated when the film’s poster was unveiled on Tuesday. Accusations of colorism — bias towards darkish pores and skin tones — circulated all through the Internet, mirroring sentiments expressed when Saldana changed Mary M. Blige within the position after the shoot was delayed in 2012. (Saldana is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent.)

And this wasn’t the primary time Simone’s property has condemned “Nina.” “The addition of Zoe Saldana to the casting — for me — was solely an extra instance of how a lot this undertaking actually simply veered away from what the reality was,” Simone’s daughter advised The Huffington Post final yr when the documentary “What Happened, Miss Simone?” opened. She additionally stated in a weblog publish that the property was “by no means requested permission nor invited to take part” within the film.

Saldana has not responded to the newest controversies, aside from to function the poster on her Instagram account with “…” because the caption. (The Huffington Post reached out to Saldana’s rep for remark however has not but heard again.) She did, nevertheless, inform InStyle final yr that she understood the supply of the criticism. 

“I didn’t assume I was proper for the half, and I know lots of people will agree, however then once more, I don’t assume Elizabeth Taylor was proper for Cleopatra both,” Saldana stated. “An artist is colorless, genderless … It’s extra complicated than simply, ‘Oh, you selected the Halle Berry look-alike to play a darkish, strikingly lovely, iconic black lady.’ The fact is, they selected an artist who was prepared to sacrifice herself. We wanted to inform her story as a result of she deserves it.”

“Nina,” the directorial debut of “The Brave One” and “Roseanne” scribe Cynthia Mort, opens April 22 in theaters and on VOD. 

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UNSPECIFIED – 1968: This studio portrait exhibits American pianist and jazz singer Nina Simone reclining on the ground circa 1968. Simone, whose deep, raspy voice made her a singular jazz determine and later helped chronicle the civil rights motion, died in her sleep on April 21, 2003 of pure causes after an extended sickness. She was 70. (Photo by Getty Images)

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UNSPECIFIED – 1968: This studio portrait exhibits American pianist and jazz singer Nina Simone reclining on the ground circa 1968. Simone, whose deep, raspy voice made her a singular jazz determine and later helped chronicle the civil rights motion, died in her sleep on April 21, 2003 of pure causes after an extended sickness. She was 70. (Photo by Getty Images)

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UNSPECIFIED – OCTOBER 18, 1964: American pianist and jazz singer Nina Simone performs October 18, 1964 in an unidentifed location. Simone, whose deep, raspy voice made her a singular jazz determine and later helped chronicle the civil rights motion, died in her sleep on April 21, 2003 of pure causes after an extended sickness. She was 70. (Photo by Getty Images)

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JUAN LES PINS, FRANCE: Picture dated 20 July 1988 of legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone taking her breakfast at a Juan-Les-Pins lodge in the course of the Jazz pageant within the French southern Riviera city. Simone died 21 April 2003 on the age of 70 ather house in southern France, stated her supervisor in a press release. AFP PHOTO Michel GANGNE (Photo credit score ought to learn MICHEL GANGNE/AFP/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK – APRIL thirteen: (FILE PHOTO) Jazz singer Nina Simone attends the Rainforest Foundation eleventh Annual Carnegie Hall Benefit live performance after social gathering on the Pierre Hotel on April thirteen, 2002 in New York City. Simone, whose deep, raspy voice made her a singular jazz determine and later helped chronicle the civil rights motion, died in her sleep on April 21, 2003 of ‘pure causes’ after an extended sickness. She was 70. (Photo by Jimi Celeste/Getty Images)

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