Recently, a Kevin Costner controversy spread over Hollywood due to the movie he's starring in. The movie, entitled "Black or White," gets attention of the audience by its mere title alone. As we all know, racial discriminations have been a trend lately. To create a movie with such title, it may hurt some sensitive ears of the general patronage.
The actor faced this Kevin Costner controversy in his recent CNN interview. He also answered allegations regarding racial issues that built this Kevin Costner controversy up.
Aside from Kevin Costner, "Black or White" stars Octavia Spencer, Gillian Jacobs, Jennifer Ehle, Anthony Mackie, and Bill Burr. The movie was released in the United States on January 30, 2015. The Mike Bender-directed film was also premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Kevin Costner, who also produced the film with Mike Bender and Todd Lewis, admitted that he loved Bender's script making him accept the read role. He made noteworthy comments about the movie's script, telling it is "a great American screen play," and praising Mike Bender by telling that the director "has kind of set the table for how we can have this conversation" about the topic of racism.
The actor continued, "I found this story and it did deal with the notions of racism, but I saw it as working perfectly for audiences. I thought it worked perfectly for me, given my body of work. This is what I should be making right now at this moment. I can't deny it." Clearly, he wanted to send a message to everyone something about racism. Some people just misinterpreted the whole idea of putting a sensitive topic as the story's backbone for a mainstream movie, giving birth to this certain Kevin Costner controversy.
The Kevin Costner controversy might have resulted to different views of the audience. But nonetheless, it serves a purpose of promoting or advertising their new movie. As a popular quote says, bad publicity is still publicity. Maybe, this Kevin Costner controversy results to fruitful film profit.
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