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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

[b]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".[/b]  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.

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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. [/quote]

Okay. No. White people have NOT been cast in non-white rolesbecause of the scarcity of non-white actors. They have always existed and always been in this country since film and television began

this post right here is the problem with using film as any kind of history. The fact that non-white people did not appear in film or television from their inceptions does not mean that non-white people did not live here

This is wishful thinking that is a little bit nuts.

it is like the person who thinks people didn't use the word f*** in the 50s. If you read anything, that word prevalent among many crowds. People knew the word. Just because it wasn't in a movie doesn't mean it wasn't being used. You cannot use film and television as accurate representations of Life at any time really

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