It doesn't help that studios like to double up, so a bunch of the blacks they're pushing are going for the Modern Beauty Standards™, or are trans, or are ultra-flamboyant gays.

It would be a little easier for a woman, since that somehow has diversity points, but it seems like it would be really hard for a 'straight man' (the role, not the sexuality...although that too) to make it in the current climate.

All the woke nonsense has made it harder for any serious actors, of any race, to rise to prominence, at least on their merits. Especially men.