Color blind casting or color quota casting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Film and television are not history books or documentaries. You suspend disbelief when you sit in a theater and actors get up there and ACT.

Sometimes, straight people play gay, and vice versa. To comply with lawa, oftentimes adults are hired to play teenagers.

And sometimes, directors assume the audience isn't so pedantic and narrow that they allow creative casting in a piece of ART to distract them so immutably.

And while OP is stuck on skin color, the most frequent inaccurate representation is using white actors to play non-white characters. You just dont notice it because it's "normal". After all, Crazy Rich Asians was considered a breakthrough movie because not only was it set mostly in Asia with Asian characters, but it actually cast Asian actors to play the roles.

Traditionally white actors have been cast to play non white characters because there just weren't very many non-white people in this country to being with. There are now, so yes, it would be distracting to see a white actor cast as Mulan. In Japan I would not find it odd to see an Asian actor play Mary Poppins, because that's the preponderance of the actors they have to chose from. In this country I would find the casting of an Asian Mary Poppins to be very distracting.

You are very, very wrong. There have been many, many actors of color who have been trying to break into Hollywood. Read about Sidney Poitier's struggles, or Chita Rivera, or George Takei or Nichelle Nichols, or the dozens of other actors of color who have tried for many years to break into the business. Most were limited to small bit parts specifically written for minorities and watched significant larger roles written for minorities played by white actors. It was very common for books to be adapted and minority characters rewritten for white actors, like Tilda Swinton in the 2017 movie Dr. Strange.

Typical white attitude, that despite the bigotry and white supremacy unwritten rules in Hollywood that severely restricted options for actors of color, PP says there weren't many non-white actors. There were many actors of color, just very few opportunities for actors of color.

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