11 years later, Faizon Love sues Universal over Couples Retreat poster
It’s been more than 10 years since Universal released Couples Retreat, a largely forgettable step on Vince Vaughn’s descent into the swamp of romantic comedy blandness. In fact, the most truly n0table thing about the film—then and now, as it turns out—was its marketing, and, specifically, its international poster, which reportedly cut c0-stars Faizon Love and Kali Hawk (the only non-white people in the film’s starring cast) from their spot (which was already in the background of the whole thing, anyway). There’s nothing new about this—people pointed it out and got pissed about it at the time—though, so why are we talking about it now? Well, because Love has decided that, after 11 years of being told that Universal would make this upsetting slight right, the deadline has now passed, and he’s suing the studio over the decade-old poster.
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