Neil Gaiman Responds To Criticisms Of ‘Race-Swapped’ Casting Of Death In Netflix Sandman Series
(boundingintocomics.com)
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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.
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.
Gary Oldman is a fucking chameleon.
Tom Hardy has impressed the shit out of me lately as well.