Van Lathan Award for Did This Movie Need More Black People?
No; Martin Lawrence as Faisil proposed
In the discussion (1)
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- More Black People receives an initial no, including rejection of replacing Trilby merely with a wise Black character. Martin Lawrence is then proposed for Faisil, while the existing casting is defended as potentially offsetting the film’s ethnic optics.