Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5367821-20130209055547/@comment-5521796-20130210231356

Fractuared Fairytales wrote: The point is - OuaT has never shown any indication that they're trying to be racially uninclusive... I just don't wanna see casting turn into something based off of race, instead of quality.

Me niether, that would be wrong. But making a statement, like with Cinderella is different I believe. So Whitney wanted a diverse cast? It's not like those actors that were finally cast in it were the only actors in Hollywood, what I mean is, they had a number of people of those nationalities come and audition. So if they did cast an Asian person as Peter why would you jump to the conclusion that it wasn't based off of quality? It wouldn't be like he was the only Asian that auditioned for the part. Even if they said, we want an Asian person for the role, they would hopefully still be looking at his acting skills. And Hollywood does that all the time anyway, they'll say, "ok, we want a tall blonde for this role". So a bunch of people who are tall and blonde go to the audition. I just don't know why everybody goes to politcs. It's not like the government has stated, "we want families and friends to be intergrated". That's just society, so if tv, and film, and plays portray that why is that bad? They're looking at society and coping it, the way they have always done. Like you said with Peter Pan, obviously calling someone "Red Skin" is a slur, so tv and flims don't do anymore unless it's set back in that time or they have a racist character. But they don't just have the characters blatently call someone that.

So my point is, if a show wanted to look for an actor who was a certain race for the character to appeal more to society now, that would technically be including. Take it this way, if a little black girl watched this version of Roger and Hamerstein's Cinderella, it would probably be amazing for her to know that we've come so far in this day and age to be able to say, "Hey, why can't Cinderella be black." Or even another nationality. And that's what I believe Whitney was doing. It would have been different if the auditioned had come down to Brandy and a girl of another nationality and the that person's acting skills were clearly better, but because Whitney wanted a black girl, gone with Brandy anyway. That's where I believe it would be wrong and exclusive.