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