Amy Moore
November 28th, 2010, 10:28 AM
A paki hobbit, come on now that just wouldn't fit. But I bet this bitch will now get the job so as not to offend the masses.
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At 1.5 metres (5ft), Naz Humphreys has the essential requirement to be a hobbit extra, but the British Pakistani has been told she's not white enough.
"It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin," Ms Humphreys said.
She travelled from Auckland to Hamilton last Tuesday to an extras audition for The Hobbit. "The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned."
A Waikato Times video of the auditions shows a film company representative telling the crowd: "We are looking for light-skinned people. I'm not trying to be – whatever. It's just the brief. You've got to look like a hobbit."
A spokesman for Sir Peter Jackson said the film-maker was unaware of the casting restriction and described it as "an incredibly unfortunate error".
The Hamilton auditions attracted 700 people wanting to play hobbits in the two-part film. Ms Humphreys said she waited for three hours, only to be told there was little point.
The social policy researcher, here on a working holiday with her husband, said it was a Christmas ritual for the couple to watch The Lord of the Rings films. "It was the opportunity of a lifetime. I would love to be an extra. But it just seemed like a shame because obviously hobbits are not brown or black or any other colour. They all look kind of homogenised beige and all derived from the Caucasian gene pool."
http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1290946259/817/4399817.jpg
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/4400118/Hobbit-hopeful-pulled-up-short-over-skin-colour
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At 1.5 metres (5ft), Naz Humphreys has the essential requirement to be a hobbit extra, but the British Pakistani has been told she's not white enough.
"It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin," Ms Humphreys said.
She travelled from Auckland to Hamilton last Tuesday to an extras audition for The Hobbit. "The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned."
A Waikato Times video of the auditions shows a film company representative telling the crowd: "We are looking for light-skinned people. I'm not trying to be – whatever. It's just the brief. You've got to look like a hobbit."
A spokesman for Sir Peter Jackson said the film-maker was unaware of the casting restriction and described it as "an incredibly unfortunate error".
The Hamilton auditions attracted 700 people wanting to play hobbits in the two-part film. Ms Humphreys said she waited for three hours, only to be told there was little point.
The social policy researcher, here on a working holiday with her husband, said it was a Christmas ritual for the couple to watch The Lord of the Rings films. "It was the opportunity of a lifetime. I would love to be an extra. But it just seemed like a shame because obviously hobbits are not brown or black or any other colour. They all look kind of homogenised beige and all derived from the Caucasian gene pool."
http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1290946259/817/4399817.jpg
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/4400118/Hobbit-hopeful-pulled-up-short-over-skin-colour