Zoe Saldana, Nina Simone and the worst casting choices for biographies and remakes

Zoe Saldana, Nina Simone and the worst casting choices for biographies and remakes

Larenz Tate: This is definitely a quality actor, but I didn’t buy his role as Quincy Jones as the teenaged friend of Ray Charles in the movie Ray. This is also where Jamie Foxx gave one of the modern era’s greatest biographical portrayals, maybe one of the best of all time, which earned him an Academy Award. But Foxx is also the example of bad casting, as you will see below.

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