Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl
<strong>Film:</strong> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829459/" target="_blank">"A Mighty Heart"</a> (2007) is based on the <i>real-life </i>ordeal of journalist Mariane Pearl after her husband Daniel, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, is <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1461368/Daniel-Pearl-refused-to-be-sedated-before-his-throat-was-cut.html" target="_blank">kidnapped and later murdered by Pakistani militants.</a> <br><br><strong>Character's Background: </strong>Mariane Pearl was born in France but <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/travel/mariane-pearl-revisiting-the-cuba-of-my-youth.html" target="_blank">she is of Afro-Cuban descent. </a>She has naturally curly hair and a dark complexion.<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/travel/mariane-pearl-revisiting-the-cuba-of-my-youth.html" target="_blank"><br></a><strong>Actress' Background: </strong>Angelina Jolie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001401/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm" target="_blank">has <i>no</i> African roots.</a> None. Zero. She is of mixed-European descent. Her hair is not naturally curly, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/AR2007062202029.html" target="_blank">her skin is naturally fair</a> and her eyes are actually blue-green. Behold (above), present-day blackface.
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