UK Activists Raise Awareness By Replacing White Actors With Black Leads In Movie Posters

Plus, please: Don't ignore historical context. Rose in Titanic was British upper class. I would doubt that in 1912 there was a black British upper class, and even if, they probably would have had a lot of different problems with the snobs in the first class, so it would have been a completely different movie.

I agree that sometimes there is a compelling social/historical/geographical reason for a character to be of a particular race, gender or age. If there is none then the casting should be representative of the society it portrays. Many contemporary book characters could be cast as non-white simply because the book never actually specifies skin colour or the references are inconsequential to the story.

A black man {Will Smith} played a white character {James West} in the movie Wild, Wild West and no one cared. I like that no one took notice.

I agree with you 100%. It's like in The Darkest Minds movie. If any of you have read that book, even though it doesn't say the main character Ruby is white, you can tell as a reader she is. But, in the movie, they cast a black actress. I don't have a problem with that, but it just doesn't feel right to me. Does that make any sense? I hope so. I'm sure there are other examples, but this is the only one I could think of.

I have sometimes seen a black actor/actress play a role of a white character and that has sometimes worked very well. For example Netflix movie Death Note is a terrible movie and they changed all characters of the original manga to American people. But at least the actor of L (Lakeith Stanfield) was surprisingly good. I am a fan of the original Death Note manga and I did not mind that the actor of L was black.

Actually, I think of Rosario Dawson and Danny Trejo, both of whom have played many different roles, and done so remarkable well!

Well this looks like the work of a group of people who just got up and started changing things. Up you get sunny, it will be hard work, you will probably meet some fantastic people. At times it will be heartbreaking. " We" can change things. This is another way volunteers are so fantastic. * yes yes i chose to volunteer at my heart's thing. No sorry no more details i'm also a slightly paranoid person.

I beg to differ... Examples of the contrary are: Jessica Alba, Andy Garcia, Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem, Aubrey Plaza, Freddie Prinze Jr, David Gallagher (cuban on his mother's side), Penelope Cruz, Sofia Vergara, Salma Hayek, Edward James Olmos... I can keep going...

Well, we got the m***********g Aragorn.

When I try to think of latino's in films I immediately think of Jimmy Smits. You are right however that there probably have been many more latino's etc. stuck in those sorts of roles in white-lead movies I have watched and I have never even noticed.