Non-Somali will portray Supermodel Iman in HBO's LA Lakers Drama series

[Giftxo]

 

[Baarisiyomoos]

Who cares lol there aren’t that many Somali actors anyways. She’s very pretty too

 

[Lostbox]

She so pretty for a black woman

 

[Giftxo]

She so pretty for a black women

dude she’s From Mali and literally every woman from that country is beautiful, also that’s a very back handed compliment

 

[laylaz]

Not surprised. She's very pretty tho

 

[exposedmeat]

i mean she fellow afroasiatic allow her

 

[Apollo]

I think she is Fulani.

 

[Apollo]

i mean she fellow afroasiatic allow her

Fulanis aren't AA. Their language group is NC, but they have some ancient Berber blood.

 

[Periplus]

They really couldn't get Alisha Bø or even Maya Jama even to play Iman.

However, this actress probably will play the part well and at least its a fellow African woman from a Muslim country unlike getting a random African-American actress.

Progress I guess?

 

[Apollo]

They really couldn't get Alisha Bø or even Maya Jama even to play Iman.

However, this actress probably will play the part well and at least its a fellow African woman from a Muslim country unlike getting a random African-American actress.

Progress I guess?

They have European accents and would make it seem fake.

They probably want somebody with an African fob accent.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

She is Muslim and beautiful but they can do a better job matching features and hair type. Somalis need to demand Somali representation or they will continue with lazy casting and acting as if all Africans look the same.

 

[mr steal your naag]

Yall xalimos really though she was gonna pick yall

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Btw, did Iman approve this casting choice or are they making a movie without consulting her.
Hollywood does shady things like this.

 

[Periplus]

They have European accents and would make it seem fake.

They probably want somebody with an African fob accent.

The accent of a Somali fob is closer to an Arab fob than a West African fob. Primarily due to similar alphabets and pronunciation of words.

Plus the accent is easily fixable for a trained actress like Alisha Bø, would not even cost that much money in lessons. Send her for dhaqancelis for a month and they're golden.

 

[Giftxo]

Btw, did Iman approve this casting choice or are they making a movie without consulting her.
Hollywood does shady things like this.

Knowing hollywood most likely not, they never do this lmao. They did the same thing with Whitney or a whole stupid team made a documentary about Britney Spears which she didn’t approve off for example

 

[Apollo]

She is Muslim and beautiful but they can do a better job matching features and hair type. Somalis need to demand Somali representation or they will continue with lazy casting and acting as if all Africans look the same.

This one doesn't look too Bantu. She is Fulani. They look pseudo-Horner many times. At least they didn't use an Angolan or something.

 

[Giftxo]

They really couldn't get Alisha Bø or even Maya Jama even to play Iman.

However, this actress probably will play the part well and at least its a fellow African woman from a Muslim country unlike getting a random African-American actress.

Progress I guess?

Maya Jama and Alisha don’t look similar to Imam at all, and in that case I rather want this girl to play in an then them lmao, they don’t even look the slightest like Iman

 

[Periplus]

Maya Jama and Alisha don’t look similar to Imam at all, and in that case I rather want this girl to play in an then them lmao, they don’t even look the slightest like Iman

Come on, that is a bit disingenuous. I'll agree Alisha and Iman are no where near alike but there is some similarity between Maya and young Iman.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

This one doesn't look too Bantu. She is Fulani. They look pseudo-Horner many times. At least they didn't use an Angolan or something.

That's true, Fulanis can sometimes look slightly Somali.

I have seen light-skinned versions of Mariamma in the Somali community with slightly different noses.

 

[Apollo]

@Periplus

She is half white, and Scandinavian of all. People in Hollywood kind of dislike European beauty standards and automatically would disqualify her for that.