B-Girl, a new hip-hop movie about break dancing, premiered on Showtime this Sunday.
In it, protagonist Angel survives a home invasion and overcomes her physical and mental challenges to become the best b-girl on the block.
The filmmakers, Elizabeth (producer) and Emily Dell (writer and director) are certainly not b-girls, but their experience as women in the film industry is as Angel seeks to break down barriers within gender spaces.
But few things raise my eyebrows more than a hip-hop movie about a blond white woman, with black people and black people in support.
Because people of color were broke and were not represented as stars in dance films, their decentralization was not appreciated.
Jules Urich, the white actor who plays Angel, is a great dancer, and Dells describes him as excellent.
This type of problem occurs when white actors have leading roles that go against the cultural background of a film.
Ebony Utley/Ms.: Tell me about your casting call and the casting call you did to find the best actress to play the angel.
Elizabeth Dell: When it comes to the scene there really isn’t a casting for our b-girls.
After we met Lady Jules, she became a family member of this film and was very natural and natural.
She is simply one of the biggest, most famous and most interesting b-girls in the world.
Ms.: I know there is no other female dancer in the film.
Emily Dell: I chose to separate Angel a little bit.
There are so many amazing b-girls coming up in different ways.
The younger generation is progressing and that’s very exciting and we’re big fans, but as far as this story goes I want to make sure it’s a very clear story.
Ms.: It appears that Angel is actually Latina through her mother’s mother, but she is not culturally Latina.
If her grandmother wasn’t in the movie, we wouldn’t know that Angel is Latina.
Emily: I really wanted it to be a mixtape because I feel like it represents the new face of hip hop.
Elizabeth: We were very careful in trying to choose a wide range of faces in the film and to think about how hip hop is reorganized, changed and reorganized.
Ms.: Did Jules Urich identify himself as white?
She grew up in Colorado as a small-town white girl.
Ms.: Can you imagine someone just seeing a white girl smashing into posters saying, “Is this like white people taking over hip hop? ”
Emily: We have a lot.
What you don’t know is the broken girl…she is the accomplished, best b-girl in the world.
She must be the best b-girl in the world.
In fact, an actor who has a different skin type cannot really do this because this is not his world and not his life and not his community and he is not a good choice for us.
Ms.: As an “angel,” your main character is a white woman who is known to save black places, especially the black men in her group.
Emily: I can’t say I thought about it that way.
Again, as far as the people of the group go, we didn’t choose about dark or light or anything.
We actually hired the best guys in L.A. Elizabeth: I didn’t really think of him as a white angel saving anyone.
I thought he was his own angel.
As a b-girl, she flies.
He was an angel on the floor.
The Dells note that B-Girl differs from Save the Last Dance, Honey, the Step Up trilogy and other dance films because of its honesty and integrity.
And the movie proves that b-boys aren’t always good and true.
But what do you think: Jules, the white girl from Colorado, the best and true b-girl?
Above: Trailer from B-Girl.
By B-Girl.