Neil Gaiman Responds To Criticisms Of ‘Race-Swapped’ Casting Of Death In Netflix Sandman Series
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"The ability to give us the great personality was important."
Oh, she got the role despite having the wrong race because her acting was just so good. How many fucking times have we heard that excuse? And how many times has it actually panned out? The fucktards behind The Last Airbender movie said the same thing, and nobody bought it back then. And if anyone thinks this will be different, Netflix is notoriously cheap when it comes to scouting talent.
I liked Daniel Craig's Bond, but they could have solved the issue of his blond hair with dye or a wig. It's just plain stubborness or laziness on either the director or actor's part it was never addressed.
Glad I'm not the only one who says no to blond Bond.
No idea why they didn't dye his hair. He would've looked so better for the part.
Craig was a good book Bond.
But movie Bond and book Bond haven't ever been the same up until Craig, so...
My opinion is pretty mixed. I prefer the older stuff personally
I like camp movie bond best.
Kind of bummed that the eggheads in the writers' room decided that Austin Powers meant they couldn't make a camp bond movie ever again, as if my laughing at the parody means I no longer like the original.
Heimdallr in Marvel’s Thor going to Idris Elba was a good choice.
Not exactly the same since they did it in the comics first, but Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury.
Can’t think of any others though, and these aren’t exactly deep or complex acting roles.
No, that was deliberate hostility, casting the "whitest Aesir" as a black man.
Would Poe in Altered Carbon count since in the books it's meant to be Jimmy Hendrix? Technically that was due to legal issues from Hendrix' estate but the character of Poe was still loved by the audience because of the performance.
As for some historic examples, Morgan Freeman in Shawshank? Red is meant to be Irish afterall hence the nickname in the first place and the throwaway line about "Maybe it's because I'm Irish". He's certainly one of the more prominent actors out there that it could be claimed his performance worked.
That's the thing -- he was Morgan Fucking Freeman. They can put him in any role they want and I won't care because he's Morgan Fucking Freeman.
Most of the wokewashing today is with random actors or actresses that nobody has ever heard of that also just happens to be vocal activists for race issues, and we're supposed to believe that they got the job 100% based on merit.
Right? We're not getting the cream of the crop with these roles, we're getting literal-whos that next to no one know of.
Yes. I don't think they cast him because he was black. They did it because of that damn beautiful voice. It wouldn't have been half as good a movie if they had anyone else.
Imagine if they replaced Clancy Brown with a nig guard. That would have sucked shit.
Idris Elba as Heimdall has kinda grown on me if I'm honest. Dude's a great actor. But that's about the only example I can think of.
Honestly I don’t think he’s a particularly good actor, I just think he’s charismatic and people like seeing him in movies. But he doesn’t really “disappear” in his roles, he always seems like Idris Alba and people see him and say “I like this guy, he must be a good actor!” I think guys like Gary Oldman or Billy Crudup are good actors because you often can’t even recognize them from movie to movie if you don’t already know they’re in it.
Let's be real here. He is a non-trashy black person. To wokesters, it's either him, that manlet Donald Glover or some femmie gay black dude in high heels. But because he is also neat and well-spoken, non-wokesters are of course okay with him as well, because he is fine.
Gary Oldman is a fucking chameleon.
Tom Hardy has impressed the shit out of me lately as well.
Sam Jackson as Nick Fury. Annnd that's about it.
He's kind of a gray case, mostly because Marvel had redesigned him as a black man (more accurately, redesigned him as Samuel L. Jackson) for the Ultimate Marvel universe years before the MCU even began.