Loqueesha

About

Loqueesha is an upcoming comedy written and directed by and starring Jeremy Saville in which he plays a radio DJ who finds he is having difficulty breaking into talk radio until he decides to impersonate a black woman on the radio named Loqueesha. As Loqueesha, he becomes a huge success, leading to hijinks as the scheme spins out of control. The trailer for the film was quickly mocked for the offensiveness of its content.

History

Buzz about Loqueesha started after it was initially selected for the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival,^[1] though the film was eventually pulled. A trailer for the film was posted to Vimeo on February 13th, 2019 (shown below).

Online Reaction

Online, the film began receiving attention after its cover and summary were posted by Twitter user @NotSPMulvhill,^[2] gaining over 4,600 retweets and 21,000 likes (shown below).

In response, Twitter users were quick to mock the concept of the film and the trailer. Twitter user Scott Wampler tweeted "congratulations" to Saville for making a movie and killing his career, gaining over 190 retweets and 1,200 likes (shown below, left). Others compared the film to Soul Man, an 80s comedy about a white teenager who pretends to be black to get scholarship money to Harvard. One tweet like this by @cjane87 gained over 50 retweets and 300 likes (shown below, right).

The reaction of the film led to the San Luis Obispo Film Festival clarifying on Twitter that it had pulled the film, and that the moment in the trailer which calls the film an "official selection" of the festival was used without the festival's permission.

The film was criticized by multiple news outlets, including The Root,^[3] Essence,^[4] and Uproxx.^[5]

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