Mena Suvari: 'I never had my jaw hit the floor so many times'

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Why Cast A Black Actress In Your Movie When You Can Get Mena Suvari In Cornrows? [Colorblind]
Published 5/29/2008 by Dodai at Jezebel
[image] Today's Los Angeles Times has a story about Mena Suvari, who is starring in a new film, Stuck , by Stuart Gordon. She plays Brandi, a young woman who hits a homeless man with her car late one night, sending him right through the windshield. Brandi panics and drives home (with the guy still in her windshield) and tries to go on with her life. The plot is based on a true story the woman's name was ...

Mena Suvari in Cornrows Apparently Just As Marketable As Actual Black Actresses
Published 5/29/2008 at Vulture
... (Stephen Rea) with her car late one night and, panicking, drives home and parks in the garage with the clinging-to-life victim still embedded in her windshield. The movie is based on the true story of Chante Mallard, a black woman from Fort Worth, Texas who's currently serving 50 years in prison. In playing the movie version of Chante, Suvari — in order to "establish Brandi as a particular kind of girl from a particular place" — wears her hair in cornrows and has "ghetto-fabulous nails." We don't have a lot to add to Jezebel's skewering of this ...