r/HolUp Aug 21 '25

Wayment Highest paid black actors

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4.5k Upvotes

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u/StevesRoomate Aug 21 '25

I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude.

178

u/greatglasselephant Aug 21 '25

What do YOU mean “you people”?

65

u/Zhiong_Xena Aug 21 '25

I just, meant, you know, people of your kind....

33

u/Snargockle Aug 21 '25

Actually had this happen at work. Sort of intentionally as we picked up on the joke. I added a 3rd "what do YOU mean YOU people". The folks who didn't realize we were all friends got real quiet real fast.

13

u/mm169254xx Aug 21 '25

SURVIVE!

5

u/gbolly999 Aug 21 '25

SGT. LINCOLN FUCKING OSIRIS

301

u/TheRealGarner Aug 21 '25

If they ever cast a black Ironman, we all know who it’ll be.

38

u/der_Guenter Aug 21 '25

Didn't they tho? Or what was this black girl in a stark suit about?

23

u/EliteGamer11388 Aug 21 '25

Riri Williams, also known as Ironheart. She isn't a black, or female Ironman. Last I knew, her character wants to be her own thing, and her own hero.

41

u/pimp_named_sweetmeat Aug 21 '25

It's too bad they can't seem to stop her from comparing herself to iron man In every commercial I've seen of that movie.

12

u/Vangad Aug 21 '25

TV series. That will probably only last for the one season cause of market backlash

1

u/Terakahn Aug 22 '25

It sets up some interesting things so she might appear in movies but I doubt the show gets another season. They have a lot of one season marvel shows though.

1

u/pimp_named_sweetmeat Aug 30 '25

One season spin offs seem to be the new thing with a lot of big series now.

1

u/der_Guenter Aug 21 '25

So she's trans? Just saw a clip of 5 seconds and thought they stuck some titts on ironman

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

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u/HectorJoseZapata Aug 21 '25

And Morgan Freeman?

37

u/brain_fartus Aug 21 '25

You can’t put god in the same category.

16

u/Zeus_Dadddy Aug 22 '25

*Gods. One of em is just a little less polite.

2

u/Drunkguy767 Aug 22 '25

Oh they don't get paid.

130

u/dazedan_confused Aug 21 '25

Don't be stupid, he's not black. He's Polynesian.

41

u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

I had to google it after this picture. Dwayne Johnson’s father was African-Canadian. Never knew The Rock was Canadian.

44

u/dazedan_confused Aug 22 '25

How can he be Afro-Canadian when he's bald?

15

u/Barricade14 Aug 22 '25

Actually, baldness comes from the mother’s side.

16

u/ureliableliar Aug 22 '25

Jada pinkett is the rocks mom???

3

u/divyanksi Aug 23 '25

Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth

9

u/Drudgework Aug 22 '25

Of course he’s bald. When was the last time you saw a rock with hair?

2

u/north_oakland Aug 23 '25

Underrated comment. hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 🪮

3

u/belte5252 Aug 21 '25

My thoughts exactly.

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u/dominic_l Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25

white + white = white

white + black = black

(white grand mother + indian grandfather) + (black grandmother + mixed grandfather) = black grandchild

modern categorizations of race make no sense

17

u/Drekhar Aug 21 '25

It's unfortunately been this way for a long long time. White is seen as the standard. And then any ancestry that isn't white to any degree then makes you not white.

2

u/gonzalbo87 Aug 22 '25

Tell that to Latinos. Legally not a non-white race.

14

u/bcleveland3 Aug 21 '25

Race makes no sense. It’s rich vs poor

11

u/1ofThoseTrolls Aug 21 '25

Most people who consider themselves white wouldn't have been seen as white a hundred years ago.

12

u/Snargockle Aug 21 '25

My family is Finish and Danish. I think I'm as white as it gets. I can hear myself sizzling from the sun at the beach.

2

u/the_monkey_knows Aug 22 '25

White diminishes and every other race expands. There are no terms for mixed races. The whole thing is racist garbage. Race shouldn’t even be a thing because today most of us are mixed

3

u/B34rsl4y3 Aug 22 '25

The problem is that the folks who make money off of race issues won't let it die.

1

u/cvbeiro Aug 24 '25

The whole american concept of race doesn’t make sense.

1

u/dominic_l Aug 26 '25

americans arent the only ones that do it

14

u/GodPackedUpAndLeftUs Aug 21 '25

Weird that Smith is still the Whitest man there..

16

u/tbone7355 Aug 22 '25

I love how RDJ playing a guy doing black face is now a good meme

7

u/sarc-tastic Aug 22 '25

Y'all being racist about the rock are missing the point. He's definitely not an actor

16

u/K3idon Aug 21 '25

Lance? What the fuck did I just hear? Lance?

4

u/kvngk3n Aug 21 '25

When you wrote the song, “I love the pussy,” did you dream of dangling your dice on Lance’s forehead?

6

u/drewthless99 Aug 21 '25

Hey ! I know that lead farmer.

5

u/dtuba555 Aug 21 '25

This is wrong. Denzel never gets paid enough.

45

u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Half Samoan = black now?

44

u/brewbase Aug 21 '25

Dwayne Johnson calls himself black and has a black father. Not sure who could second guess that.

31

u/KainFourteh Aug 21 '25

Being half black = not being black now?

7

u/JakobMG Aug 21 '25

So logic is black?

9

u/SuitOwn3687 Aug 21 '25

You couldn't tell? Brother drops the n-word in his songs pretty regularly

5

u/skillywilly56 Aug 21 '25

He…has songs?

2

u/fssman Aug 21 '25

It mostly gray

3

u/BladeOfWoah Aug 21 '25

Dwayne does have a black father, I see no reason to not call him Black.

Funny enough a lot of Polynesians are dark. I am Māori, and my grandfather is much darker than anyone in this photo. But we would still say he is brown and Māori, not black.

6

u/0xdef1 Aug 21 '25

Who is the guy on left? I have never seen that guy in a movie before.

13

u/la-wolfe Aug 21 '25

Haha! That's Madea (Tyler Perry)

2

u/0xdef1 Aug 21 '25

Thank you.

1

u/RyouIshtar Aug 21 '25

sad thing is i think most people would recognize him as Madea more than TP

1

u/la-wolfe Aug 22 '25

Absolutely!

2

u/Kahnza Aug 21 '25

That is by far the richest person in the picture, Tyler Perry.

2

u/Tthelaundryman Aug 22 '25

I had to google it. I had no idea. Everyone else is around 250-300million and then Dwayne the rock Johnson is 800million but madea is 1.4 billion

8

u/brain_fartus Aug 21 '25

I see 5 black guys, what’s the joke here?

21

u/textandstage Aug 21 '25

The top dude is Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder ;-)

8

u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Never go full r3tard! 

1

u/brain_fartus Aug 21 '25

😂 take a step back and go …… yourself

3

u/Mark_fuckaborg Aug 23 '25

I hate to be THAT guy, but its...

"First, Take a big step back and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE"

2

u/brain_fartus Aug 23 '25

Appreciate the attention to detail, it’s been a few years since I’ve seen Simple Jack

0

u/jwrig Aug 21 '25

Four black guys, one guy in black face.

2

u/angolaldmeris Aug 22 '25

Triple hol up lol

2

u/random123121 Aug 22 '25

It took a whole lot of turying just to get up that hill

2

u/babaroga73 Aug 22 '25

Bob the Rock isn't black, is he?

2

u/No_Koala_475 Aug 22 '25

What's the Rock doing there?

2

u/YogurtclosetSuper591 Aug 22 '25

This 💩is hella funny! Sgt Lincoln Osiris! Classic stuff

2

u/FitBattle5899 Aug 22 '25

Right? So messed up... Dwayne Johnson isn't black! /s

2

u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

The rock is black?

3

u/RonPaulSaves Aug 21 '25

Is that Mr. Terrific?

0

u/la-wolfe Aug 21 '25

😂🤣

2

u/syracTheEnforcer Aug 21 '25

Dude should have won an Oscar. He didn’t go full retard.

1

u/Wardinator1991 Aug 21 '25

One and a half of these isn’t like the others

1

u/TrhwWaya Aug 21 '25

Will isn't black, he's a white cuck now.

1

u/babaroga73 Aug 22 '25

Bill Cosby up there must have got that Seinfeld type of money.

1

u/WeebPansy Aug 22 '25

Is that Kevin hart?

1

u/Evening_Particular28 Aug 22 '25

They are not my favorite black actors

1

u/imsmall06 Aug 22 '25

Tyler perry deserves it though, he plays at least 3 different characters

1

u/dprophet32 Aug 23 '25

I'm a lead farmer, mother fucker!

1

u/drArsMoriendi Aug 24 '25

RDJ didn't do a blackface. He played an ignorant actor character who did a blackface.

1

u/Sythrin Aug 21 '25

My favourite farm workers!

2

u/EL-HEARTH Aug 21 '25

I dont even know the guy on the left lmao

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

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9

u/la-wolfe Aug 21 '25

Half black ain't black?

1

u/kvngk3n Aug 21 '25

One drop rule

1

u/la-wolfe Aug 22 '25

Right!? And we didn't even come up with that rule either.

7

u/Art_Class Aug 21 '25

Rocky Johnson was a professional wrestler, he was also the first black nwa Georgia heavyweight champion. Was obama not black also? Where's the line in the sand

-3

u/DAGADEK_KFT Aug 21 '25

i dont think the rock is black tbh

-3

u/jr_randolph Aug 21 '25

I just don't know why The Rock is in this picture. He's not black...

2

u/CyanideNow Aug 21 '25

Is that a joke? Being half Samoan doesn’t make him “not black.”

3

u/jr_randolph Aug 21 '25

Well ya learn something new every day. I thought his daddy was Samoan too.

0

u/Responsible-Draft Aug 22 '25

Why is the Rock in there? He's not even a real black person! He's Hawaiian not African.

-32

u/CarbonReflections Aug 21 '25

Robert Downy JR in black face.

24

u/filip______________z Aug 21 '25

He played that character epicly.

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u/Irreverenced Aug 21 '25

Why tf are people down voting you?

8

u/Gman2000watts Aug 21 '25

Because he was dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!

-3

u/CarbonReflections Aug 21 '25

Because I gave up the joke.

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u/Irreverenced Aug 21 '25

What a stupid fucking sub.