Faizon Love Sued Universal For Removing The Black Stars From The International Poster Of “Couples Retreat”

Couples Retreat. A movie I never saw and likely never will see. Despite receiving a pitiful 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, the Vince Vaughn vehicle about couples retreating (?) made Universal Pictures a whopping $171 million in 2009. Now one of the film’s stars, Faizon Love, is suing Universal for racial discrimination. He says he and his Black co-star, Kali Hawk, were erased from the overseas version of the poster, while the rest of his white co-stars (Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Malin Ackerman, Kristen Bell) got to stay.

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