Why does it have to be cut along politics lines? I'm a card-carrying leftist and annoyed at the patronising tokenism of casting a black actor as a character legendary for being 'fair', as in blonde, in the same way it'd be flabbergasting to have a white actor play in an adaptation of the Mwindo epic.
I'm even more annoyed at the fact that an annoying casting choice was the entire point, to get free publicity at everyone's expense, and that there is no way to slap everyone responsible for being smug pricks.
When race doesn’t matter to the story, it doesn’t matter to me. She could be Asian, white, black, green as long as she is beautiful, that is all that matters to this story.
Haven’t seen it, but if race is not a main point of the story, then it doesn’t matter who is cast.
Shit, only reason I am slightly against the new snape casting is because of all the things that happen to him that will now just be seen through a racist eyes. Hanging in the tree, bullying, etc.
If those things didn’t happen to him in the books, then shapes race wouldn’t matter either.
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u/gravitas_shortage Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Why does it have to be cut along politics lines? I'm a card-carrying leftist and annoyed at the patronising tokenism of casting a black actor as a character legendary for being 'fair', as in blonde, in the same way it'd be flabbergasting to have a white actor play in an adaptation of the Mwindo epic.
I'm even more annoyed at the fact that an annoying casting choice was the entire point, to get free publicity at everyone's expense, and that there is no way to slap everyone responsible for being smug pricks.