Carolyn Forword
A White actress’ refusal to kiss her Black co-star on the lips during a play aimed to promote inter-racial relations has exploded into a major race row in South Africa.
22-year old Carolyn Forword says she did not walk out of the production of The Pied Piper of Hamlin because of the race of her co-star. Instead, she insists the repeated smooching is “unhygienic” and not suitable for the audience of young children for whom the show is intended.
Forword’s co-star, Unathi Dyantyi, is more than a little crushed.
“I felt like a piece of sh*t every time we had to do it because of the way she treated me,” whined Dyantyi, who says Forword shrank from his advances and pushed him away while during the performances. “She didn’t want to kiss me. She said she found it unnecessary and the kiss was unhygienic.”
Unathi Dyantyi
“I’m speechless. What’s unhygienic about the kiss? And what’s unnecessary about it? It is necessary for what the director is aiming to do. He’s trying to convey a message that it’s OK for different cultures to fall in love. We’re a multicultural country and we’re trying to convey that.”
Forward, who recently returned to South Africa from a two-year hiatus in England, is upset that she is being portrayed as a “racist” in the media. “It is a play for eight-year-olds,” she said. “They wanted me to kiss the guy for 20 seconds, which is inappropriate for that audience. It wouldn’t have gone down well at a Catholic school, for example. It would have been unhygienic because it was a travelling show. I pulled out because the director never gave my agent an idea of where we were staying. It had nothing to do with the kissing thing. But now I’m seen as a racist.”
Carolyn Forward in a previous role as Alice in Wonderland
“If Carolyn really was a racist, would she really have agreed to perform in a play that promotes miscegenation?,” ask her supporters. Forward did 12 shows of The Pied Piper before pulling out, leaving the remaining 50 shows to her understudy.
The play’s director, Leslie Ehrhardt, supported Dyantyi’s account. “Without a doubt there was a racial element from the word go until the very end,” he said, adding that the controversial kiss lasted about 20 seconds during each show. “Carolyn underlined it with her general behavior towards Unathi. She pushed him away and her face was screwed up, as if kissing him was the worst thing in the world.
“She said to me in rehearsals that her doctor told her it was unhygienic to kiss on the stage. That took me by surprise. When we going to her old school, she said it would not go down well with her people, or words to that effect.”
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She is correct – it isn’t appropriate in a show for 8-year olds.
20 SECONDS?! And this isn’t an ‘adult’ show? I could see if it was soft-core porn but, for kids? No, if the “director” believes this is appropriate for kids then he is a pedophile.
Hendrick Verwoerd is spinning around in his grave.
If the kiss was in the original script that she read before signing the contract, she should be prepared to honor her contract. If she did not read the script before signing the contract, she’s an idiot. If the kiss was added to the script after she signed her contract, then she has a case for objecting to performing something she finds morally objectionable or containing a physical risk.
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sounds like the sole purpose of the play was to try to program little kids that its normal for white women to engage in sex with blacks..
since south african males have some of the HIGHEST incidence of AIDS on … oh.. PLANET EARTH, I would say it more than just unhygenic to go around making out with them.
Carolyn has never been racist, the director has no idea what is suitable for kids to view! 20second kiss? Why would you want that in a kids play? Hold hands or something! And I believe Carolyn had flu at that time and was scared her co-worker would get sick as well.
Mrs. Tiger Woods would have no problem with a lingering lip lock in front of the kids.
Maybe she’s gay. If a Guy didn’t want to kiss a female he would be labled queer.
Looks like she is into acting for all the wrong reasons.
Typical South african white,nothing new there.I live in SA and this is just the attitude white women have towards blacks .They have been brought up to hate everything black.She should not have signed up for the play after reading the script but humiliating the guy like that.That is just plain racist.
I don’t see what the problem is.
Look at the pictures.
She’s a most beautiful White Woman and he’s a hideous,butt-ugly Negro.
She was probably repulsed by the sight of him.
That and like far too many South African Negroes,he’s probably got “slim”.
she is a heroic woman, we need whites to rally behind her and support her
Mr. g
I consider any black individual or any white individual who mix outside they’re own race to be traitors. The multi-cultural agenda intends to blend our cultures together to a point where they will no longer be recognizable to our descendants. Blacks should be just as repulsed as whites should be at the very idea. DIVERSITY IS RACISM. It only causes people to hate each other more than it does harmonize.
Apparently you have never been to a black neighborhood here in the states. The average black’s hatred of all things white is unprecedented. But to call them racist for this is now considered racism! If a white displays equal hatred for them he is considered a nazi. Why is that?
I know you will mention slavery as being the justified reason, among other things, but are you going to deny that blacks in Africa havent participated in it as well? They still do to this day. In fact, check out this link from Ohio State University: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm
It tells how in our history black Africans kidnapped and enslaved white Europeans.
The director of that play doesn’t give a crap about racial equality. He is obviously in it for the “shock” value, or to satisfy his own personal fetish. In fact, I am convinced that any white or black who mix are in it almost solely to satisfy a perversion. It is a sex thing only, and almost all race mixing white women/men as well as race mixing black men/women, do not really care about equality. If you reduce it to a sexual thing then these “enlightened” individuals are unconsciously placing the negro/white below them, almost as if he/she were nothing more than a sex toy. To these individuals, race-mixing is considered the ultimate in forbidden fruit by the “ignorant” ways of the old. How ironic that they fool themselves with the equality act and the whole time they are behaving every bit as racist as the people they accuse and condemn.
TO RACE-MIX IS RACISM.
If this actor cannot bring herself to kiss another actor, she’s going to have difficulties working in her profession again.
For the last time, people, you cannot contract HIV by kissing. Read some medical literature. Anyway, even assuming that African men have the highest incidence of HIV on the planet, nobody is suggesting that Forword had to sleep with the guy. Women of all races would be wise to get an HIV test before sleeping with any man and then use a condom. It’s very, very simple. But completely irrelevant to Forword’s inability to be professional.
“For the last time, people, you cannot contract HIV by kissing. Read some medical literature.”
Carter Wilbur,
That being said, would you yourself kiss someone that you knew to be infected?
First things first: This wasn’t just a kiss on the lips, but a full 20 second open mouth kiss. Anyone that sees this as hygenic needs their two braincells send for a catscan, cos one just died.
In South Africa it is OK for people like Juluis Malema to go around and sling HATE speech left right and center, and then be protected by the ruling party, but when the opposition leader states facts all hell breaks loose.
I’m just curious if she said the same thing when the male actor was white, will we still be talking here? Racism is being fueled by the media, because it SELLS.
I have to agree with a previous comment, that it is OK for people of colour/color (depending which english you use) to play the race card, but when the situation is reversed then all hell breaks loose.
We are human beings, we will NEVER totally accept other people, races, religions, cultures, sexual prefferences etc. ad the more the push for this is the stronger the resistance will be. I believe if I am wrong we won’t need guns, armies or nuclear weapons, there wouldn’t be war, or gay pride parades.
We are told by the highly educated that we should embrace our individuality, but yet whe this is expressed in whichever way (especially when it’s not POLITICALLY correct) those same righteous people are the first to condemn you.
As far as I’m concerned this is much about nothing. Her body, her choice, so just accept it. Maybe the “shocked” producer and all the people that is crucifying her should show her HOW to do it.
ANY takers?
Point to ponder
She should have asked her male director, Leslie Ehrhardt, to demonstrate the kiss on him. When he refused he can then be called a racist and a homophobe! Even though apartheid is over Unathi Dyantyi is still a kaffir….
this is a bunch of bull who gives 2 fucks any way , she is white nothin new, and is black they will always blow it out of proportion
and saffer racist 101
She is a racist simple as that. White people in South Africa are sick anyhow, yes you will all be screaming isn´t what you are say racism. well it is see how you like it. I am an actor(black) and a very good one what this b…h did is so unprofessional she should try porngraphy, or I forgot she can not kiss they probably would not take her, she is useless. The South African actors Union should make sure she never works again. I work in england and i am a member of the one the most powerful unions over here I will make sure everybody hears about her. Her name Carolyn Forward will be known by anybody of influence in the industry…promise
To ‘Those’ who think that Black People are: ‘thugs, rapists, murderers, repugnant group of society, people who carry AIDS and other diseases, etc.,’ are nothing but a bunch of garbage!!! GO WAY-WAY-WAY-WAY-WAY BACK INTO UR OWN ANCESTRIES!!! WE (OF THE HUMAN RACE) ARE NOT OF THE ‘PURE RACE’, PEOPLE!!! I used 2 b racist myself, until I got a ‘wake-up’ call. And, just because of Diversity it shows that ALL PEOPLE are beautiful and equal. Colleges and universities can do/say whatever they want about blacks, only GOD is the one who makes and do everything beautiful!!!
i am a black woman and i wouldn’t want to kiss him to 1sec. race has nothing to do with it we are are drawn to people by the way they look whether they are black, white asian., korean and we tend to be drawn to people by some quality. i am not drawn to him and i am going only by looks. there is nothing appealing to me. even if the kiss had to happen why open mouth, i wouldn’t open my mouth to him or any other person i felt no attraction to. i agree wholeheartly with the actress. we are so quick to condem and pull the race card.
Why is anyone surpised? I dare you to find me ANY country where white people aren’t afraid of, or distrustful of people of color. White people are naturally very territorial as far as race goes. So it seems anyways…
“Uh-Huh says “For the last time, people, you cannot contract HIV by kissing. Read some medical literature.”
“Carter Wilbur,
That being said, would you yourself kiss someone that you knew to be infected?”
I’ve kissed HIV infected people. I know the facts about HIV. And I don’t have it. You lose.