Post by Skaathar on Jul 15, 2019 18:08:13 GMT
I think this opens up a potential can of worms: Do we need an actor's nationality to match their character's nationality or is it sufficient that their general ethnicity matches the character's ethnicity?
Because if we're saying someone of Japanese, Korean or Taiwanese ethnicity shouldn't play a Chinese character, does that mean we're also enforcing that someone who's British or Australian caucasian shouldn't play a character who's American caucasian?
I mean, a lot of the blacks they cast in Black Panther weren't actually African right? Just had African ancestry. Would it have been better had they cast actual Africans for the roles instead of African-Americans?
Because if we're saying someone of Japanese, Korean or Taiwanese ethnicity shouldn't play a Chinese character, does that mean we're also enforcing that someone who's British or Australian caucasian shouldn't play a character who's American caucasian?
I mean, a lot of the blacks they cast in Black Panther weren't actually African right? Just had African ancestry. Would it have been better had they cast actual Africans for the roles instead of African-Americans?