Movie Roles for Non-White Actors Sometimes Still Get Played by White People

[marmar]

[cemaphonic]

1. I laughed at the "French Waldo" bit

Hell, even when Idris Elba did play a street thug, he was an upwardly mobile, yuppie gangsta.

[KamaAina]

2. Movie Roles for Disabled Actors Nearly Always Get Played by Able-Bodied People

The guy in the wheelchair in Glee? He can walk. And there are many, many others.

Peter Dinklage lucked out because it would be difficult indeed to cast a non-dwarf as a dwarf. I'll bet they thought about using a boy until they found Peter, though.

[csziggy]

7. That's why I enjoy this actor in Battleship

Schlock movie but it has good characterizations.

[Adrahil]

9. Yes, that's quire common. But there are good exceptions.

R.J Mitte played Walter White's son with cerebral palsy in Breaking Bad. He actually has cerebral palsy.

Same for Allan Dobrescu, an actor in the second season of Fargo.

Support the good guys and call out the bad guys!

[olddots]

3. not too long ago male actors played all parts

no wonder advanced civillizations won't say hello to Earth .

[Bluenorthwest]

4. 380 years ago.

On the other hand, I saw blackface used on a stunt performer in the 1980's in film with African Americans present who could have done the job, who were asked for by everyone else and who asked themselves to do it.

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. NPR just ran a segment on black stuntmen this morning.

You know your society is pretty racist when they're putting the damned stuntmen in black face.

[Retrograde]

5. And sometimes people make assumptions about what people should look like

based on their preconceptions. I disagree with his putting the film based on the Allende novel in his list: South Americans can be as varied as residents of the United States.

I do want to see Donna Reed as Sacajawea now.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. I think race should only matter in casting...

...when the race of the character matters to the story. A white person as Rosa Parks or a black one as Huck Finn would be idiotic. Beyond such cases, whoever knocked it out of the park at the auditions should get the role.

[Adrahil]

10. Some of it depends on the nature of the production as well.

A more experimental piece can be more flexible in casting. A more realist production might need for the casting to make sense from a genetic point of view.

But if that isn't a factor? I agree. Pick the best actor.

[Mendocino]

11. Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson?

Yes for real.