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Djimon Hounsou is “struggling to make a dollar” in Hollywood
Africa Celebrity News19 April 2025

Djimon Hounsou is “struggling to make a dollar” in Hollywood

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“I’ve gone to studios for meetings and they’re like: ‘Wow, we felt like you just got off the boat and then went back [after ‘Amistad’]. We didn’t know you were here as a true actor,’” Hounsou continued. “When you hear things like that, you can see that some people’s vision of you, or what you represent, is very limiting….

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36 Comments

  1. @johnharris721 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    He's a millionare, crying with a loaf of bread under his arm.

    Reply
  2. @porstst says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Man we are all in the grind ….

    Reply
  3. @inamartin8316 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Absolutely I was told that.

    Reply
  4. @tltegoluv says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Amostad was his first movie

    Reply
  5. @IGjamesdaarteast says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    As you have some answers would be great if you could reach out to Djimon

    Reply
  6. @richiexp2 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Great video…

    Reply
  7. @devereyah4476 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Is he on drugs?

    Reply
  8. @kjackson3669 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Could it be because he is black ball!! Kimore lee is his baby mother and he doesn't provide any support even when he working!!

    Reply
  9. @audreywhitfield2714 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    He is melinated. The playing field is not level, and will never be for us. You always have to try harder, and be better, occasionally you may break even.

    Reply
  10. @Assata_X_The_Writer says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    I've heard a different story as a former member of IAAPA.

    Reply
  11. @fin3ssebastianshaw313 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Realistically what they should do is focus on his character in the Gladiator 2

    Reply
  12. @TheDrinkingGourd says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    I worked with this brother on Wayward Pines. It was incredible to see how the production disrespected him. He is one of the most talented people iv ever been around.

    Reply
  13. @phillipcarter6538 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    I first saw him in Love will never do….. Janet Jackson

    Reply
  14. @patriciaturner5499 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Maybe he needs to get in Nollywood business

    Reply
  15. @TaylorNotSoSwift89 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Yet he spent 2 mil a few yrs ago on a house.. I don''t feel bad for him and I'm certainly not going to lose sleep over it.

    Reply
  16. @seventhcompactor1505 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Here's the problem with Hounsou – he can't act.

    He can only play in largely non-speaking roles.

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  17. @seventhcompactor1505 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    We need to know why he's broke. Baby mamas and cocaine parties ?

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  18. @toranaga1969 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    As bad as it is for black men in Hollywood, it is even worse for black women. How much work has Angela Bassett, Viola Davis and Alfre Woodward gotten in the last ten years. Dark skinned blacks have it harder to lighter complexions. Will Smith and Halle Berry have made way more money than anyone else that was mentioned in this comment.

    Reply
  19. @toranaga1969 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    He is a great actor and is always given minor bit roles. This guy has been around a long time. But black male lead rolls now go to comediennes, it has been years since Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Laurence Fishburne were getting offered multiple leading man roles. If it isn't will Smith, it is a comic

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  20. @drmarkadufrene8153 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    This man should have won an Oscar for Amistad. He was the movie.

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  21. @Bongofurry says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Djimon Hounsouuu is a actor and model who has a net worth of $4 million.

    Reply
  22. @cowboycinema8648 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    I'm trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents and he's trying to make 1 million out of 900,000 and sad about it

    Reply
  23. @kyangsable says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    He should fire his agent and not agree to contracts he doesn't like.

    Reply
  24. @Thegreatlydestinedpodcst says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Nollywood is the third largest movie producing industry in the world. It’s in Nigeria

    Reply
  25. @quasamburress5025 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    DR WATKINS ACTOR TERRANCE HOWARD SPOKE ABOUT RELATIONS WITH EMPIRE 3 THE CAST OF PRODUCTIONS WAS MAJORITY LBGQT CHARACTERS HE READ THE ROLES OF ACTORS IN THE SERIES AND DECIDED THAT HE IS UNFORTUNATELY RETIRING AS A 🎬 ACTOR DIJMON HOUNSOU IS A GREAT MAN WITH PRINCIPLES OF THE ROLES THAT HE HAS PLAYED THIS IS SO UNFORTUNATE THAT A OLDER GENTLEMAN IS FORCE TO SUFFER FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR WEALTH HE WILL FIND A JOB CAREER IN A MATTER OF TIME

    Reply
  26. @b.p.m.5136 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    He ran is the default

    Reply
  27. @b.p.m.5136 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Bmbuild1 sovereignty

    Reply
  28. @b.p.m.5136 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Amistad was

    Reply
  29. @videostoviews2262 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Blood Diamond was a great movie

    Reply
  30. @DD-lv3zs says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Stop waiting for Hollywood to give you roles, start making independent films. Sometimes they have funds set aside for independent films.

    Reply
  31. @SuperCityBoi says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    There is no such thing as people of color!

    Reply
  32. @caramalise6119 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Doc is saying BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOUR SKILLS.

    Reply
  33. @MROOOZZZZZ says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Djimon Hounsou isn't being a "good and humble boy" team player in Hollywood that's expected of the masculine, testerone filled black male actors by the Hollywood powers to be in order to better humble and control him.

    Despite the amount of movies he's been in for at least two decades, he's still a leading co-star/character actor and not a A-list leading, black male Hollywood actor that's going to pay him the really big bucks $15-$20 million dollars per movie along with all the additional benefits that comes along with it.

    He's probably over the years gotten plenty of movie roles that would have gotten him big pay days per movie that wanted/required him to put on a dress/women's clothing in movies/television that would indicate to the Hollywood powers to be that he's now "buck broken" and hammer malleable to what we want him to be and do from that point going forward.

    His A-list status explodes and the mult-millions of dollars that he always seeking starts rolling in like a huge boulder going downhill.

    Lower his core values system, abandon his morals, throw away his integrity, play the "Casting Couch" game and he's all set.

    He knows exactly how the big bucks system to paramount suscess works in Hollywood but he will never verbally complain saying it out loud.

    Djimon Hounsou?

    Not going to happen because after all his years of success in Hollywood, its way to late, he's too likeable, too credible, too well known established to his fan base, black americans love his work and throughout Hollywood to suddenly, switch up in the game.

    Reply
  34. @chrispullinsproject says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    He must have refused to wear a dress .

    Reply
  35. @bedrockhomecentral says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Gladiator is one of my favorite movies, and I loved his role in this move.

    Reply
  36. @iiwhatisyouremailprivatenn2470 says:
    19 April 2025 at 11:22 am

    Many actors "blow up " AFTER they leave Hollywood.

    Reply

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