Message from gmzarou

[Anonymous]

Stop me if someone's made this point before, but I think we should be careful about throwing labels like "racist" around.

Chow Yun-Fat is a FANtastic actor, subtle and nuanced and deeply emotional. But you wouldn't cast him to play Thomas Jefferson, right? But we (and by we, I mean American mainstream audiences, among whom I don't count myself) will willingly accept Chinese actors playing Japanese characters and vice versa, Mexican actors playing Native Americans, Italians playing Mexicans, and Kevin Kline playing Frenchmen.

You're right, we should always see the finished product before judging. But there are six billion people on the planet, so before even starting the product, we should look for a talented actor of the race in question. Or else not consider it at all.

Looking forward to the Black Jesus movie,
m@x