Loqueesha (2019) on Netflix
Divorced bartender Joe needs money for his son's tuition at a gifted school. Turned down by a local radio station, he resubmits his audition as Loqueesha, a sassy black woman.
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Plot summary
Joe is a middle-aged, divorced white bartender. He talks a woman through her relationship problems one day, and afterward he is encouraged to audition for a time slot at a local radio station. He hesitates, then decides to try, because he wants to send his son to a private school for gifted students and needs the money. The station turns his first tape down. He records a second audition in character, as Loqueesha, a sassy black woman who takes no nonsense, and the station puts the new host on the air. The show becomes a national success, syndicated on stations around the country.
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- The trailer for Loqueesha, released on YouTube on May 11, 2019, drew a social media backlash over the film's overt racism, sexism, stereotyping and cultural appropriation, and Saville responded by tweeting a photograph of himself with Marlon Wayans, who said he "hated when people tag me in their bullshit."
- Promotional material for Loqueesha billed it as an "official selection" of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, but the festival tweeted it was never selected, screened or given an award there; the film had earlier been rejected by the George Sidney Independent Film Competition.
- Saville, a resident of Carmel, also submitted Loqueesha to the Central Coast Filmmakers Showcase; after it was accepted and the festival guides had been printed, the film was pulled by its producers before the screening, and the festival apologized for an inadequate vetting process.
