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Originally Posted by blankall
I would have been pretty pissed if I was Boyega. For a number of reasons. I also guarantee with him that if he wasn't black, they wouldn't have made his character a clown. Clearly, so much of Disney's product is just a product of superficial corporate pandering. They want to appear more diverse....how do they do that....they introduce Rose, but in the process skewer the only interesting POC's character.
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Well I think Boyega was fairly publicly pissed.
They took something that could have been interesting in his character and pretty much changed him into 'Token' from South Park.
Then again, they did that with everyone. Token woman, token Asian, token lesbian couple...everything was done to 'look progressive' rather than 'be progressive' and/or tell a decent or interesting story or have interesting or good characters.
You can write a good and interesting character, start there, and then say: "We want it to be a woman."
Theres nothing wrong with that, as long as you start with the important elements of the character itself.