He'd let them use a kid and teenager for the early years and he'd wanna pick it up from like 20 on like Richard Pryor did in Jo Jo Dancer. He could probably pull it off.

AvramsDad said:

HE'S PERFECT!!!!! He definately looks llike Prince!!

I can't think of any actors who really look like him. I have a friend who looks quite a bit like him, but he's Italian and Irish. Prince is a tough one. The actor would have to be the perfect mix of ethnicities to pull it off. Not to mention, have a deep voice, and not be too tall!

Denzel Washington. I know it sounds stupid, but dammit somehow he would pull it off. He always does

ElCapitan said:

?????

Rolling Stone 1981

"I grew up on the borderline," Prince says after the show. "I had a bunch of white friends, and I had a bunch of black friends. I never grew up in any one particular culture." The son of a half-black father and an Italian mother who divorced when he was seven, Prince pretty much raised himself from the age of twelve, when he formed his first band. Oddly, he claims that the normalcy and remoteness of Minneapolis provided just artistic nourishment he needed.

HoneymoonXpress said:

NIGGA PLEASE.

sgmusic said:

H

For whatever reason. He was lying. Have you seen his parents and whole family? Regardless of what he said when he was young, he refers to himself as black now.

has anyone considered Missy Elliot?

Andre 3000!!!



Andre - I wanna be your lover


Andre - Parade


Andre - Sign o the times


Andre - Lovesexy


Andre and the NPG


Andre & Larry do the Christ


Andre - Musicology

sgmusic said:

THIS lady is NOT fuckin Italian.


We've been over this a million times. Prince's mother is BLACK..... His father is BLACK





Prince lied. Lied Lied Lied. As he ALWAYS did in interviews.It ain't no secret that Prince had the same colorstruck problems most black kids had when he was growing up. The difference was that Prince never grew out of it.
People's brains are stuck on that lady that played his mom in Purple Rain. That ain't his mother. HE AIN'T MIXED. He never was. Stop kidding yourselves. You know what I find hilarious about people on the org? People who soooo badly want Prince to be anything but Black and yet wanna call me racially biased because I refuse to allow y'all to bleach him into some white-ish ideal you created in your mind of what you think he ought to be. You wish that he wasn't Black but too damn bad. That's why you all dream of Johnny Depp and any other white actor you think of that would be acceptable in your minds to play him. He is Black. that is all. Nobody would ever think to name a Black actor to portray a real person who was White (no matter how tanned he was). That would absurd. But for me to pull your card on all of these damn white guys and say "no way" to that is ridiculous here.

Yeah, I wonder what Prince thinks of all his closet-dwelling-racist "fans"
I'm done.

alwayslate said:

I think you're missing the point of this discussion. An actor playing Prince could have whatever racial background as long as he 'looks' the part.

It's impossible to deny that Prince's look seems mixed, whatever his family history actually is. That's why so many people who don't know much about Prince, certainly in my experience, just can't work out his racial background. His facial features and skin colour could also be found in people of many different backgrounds, not just black. It's always been part of his mystery.

FruitToAttractBears said:

SoulAlive said:

You guys have me cracking up . Whomever plays Prince just has to be a light-skinned "Black Man". A white guy playing Prince would be be all sorts of wrong especially if it's about someone's life story, I say stay true to the facts.
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Don't let the light-skin fool you,he's black and that's a fact, because afros and kinky hair don't lie

silverandgold said:

wlcm2thdwn said:

imma just say it and take the damn heat.


nooo white people. shit.


*mumbling* muhfugghas got ta have EVERYthing.

oops. he's white.

HoneymoonXpress said:

NIGGA PLEASE.