After queuing for three hours to audition for Sir Peter Jackson's blockbuster flick, Naz Humphreys, who is in New Zealand on a working visa, said she was told she wouldn't be a suitable extra.
New Hobbit film 'hit by race row'
The 5ft-tall Brit told the Waikato Times: 'It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin.'
She added: 'The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned.'
Ms Humphreys said she would have loved to be an extra in the film as she and her husband, who she is in the Kiwi country with, are both big fans of Lord of the Rings.
She said it was a 'shame' she couldn't have a part as 'obviously hobbits are not brown or black or any other colour. They all look kind of homogenised beige and all derived from the Caucasian gene pool'.
Recently, Sir Peter said the upcoming Hobbit film might not be filmed in New Zealand after the production was embroiled in a dispute with actors in the country.
Financial backers Warner Brothers were said to be making arrangements to move away from New Zealand after issues with Actors Equity.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/film/848893-the-hobbit-in-racism-row-over-woman-deemed-too-brown-for-role#ixzz16nByw9Lk
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