This.
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Originally Posted by bigtmac19
if you don't get hired to do the work, you can't, if you are not getting access to the writing jobs, the directing, etc.
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And this.
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Yeah I mean look at all the backlash from internet racists book purists for the casting of Roland Deschain.
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I would be inclined to give the Academy the benefit of the doubt and assume they picked the people who did the best job. I don't know, I probably don't watch enough movies. Unfortunately for many reasons the process is skewed to preferring white people. Think of the all the sink from people saying storm troopers aren't black, James Bond isn't black etc. No doubt that type of talk scares people who write the cheques. It reminds me when blockbusters would have the token black character that gets killed off (Jurassic Park). Thankfully that has gotten better. And it wasn't that long ago there was a token gay character that was a caricature of a gay person (every romantic comedy in the past 15 years). Now gay characters are just regular characters who happen to be gay (Jessica Jones).