Daylight is a Sylvester Stallone flick about one of the NY/NJ tunnels collapsing and trapping people underneath the Hudson River. The first black dude to be shown trapped in the tunnel is the traffic cop. Everyone else in the tunnel at this point is white. No asians or latinos either.
The remaining black people do not appear until the lead female white character stumbles upon the Police Paddywagon turned on its side, stocked full of black criminals but also containing 1 white criminal and 1 latino criminal.
It seems like a crummy way to add more people of color to the cast. I didn’t stick around long enough to see who lives and who dies, but the black traffic cop seemed rather ripe for a noble sacrifice in order to save the other trapped survivors.
I’m not sure if my complaint lays with hollywood casting directors or the black actors who keep grabbing up these roles.
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