Neil Gaiman Responds To Criticisms Of ‘Race-Swapped’ Casting Of Death In Netflix Sandman Series
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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.
Literally!
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.