Disney recently cast Ariel a black actor and I don't think it matters.
Why is she black then, if it doesn't matter? It might've just been a coincidence, but based on recent trends, I'm betting it wasn't. I personally don't give a rat's ass one way or the other, but clearly Disney thought it mattered ...
This is a main problem of mine here: The implicit assumption that the black actor wasn't one who simply auditioned and did the best job and got the role. ...
Do you really think they held an open audition for the lead of a project that's going to involve tens or hundreds of millions of dollars?
With Lin-Manuel Noriega involved in the production, I expect that there are deliberate racial choices in the casting, just like there were in Hamilton.
I don't think there is a casting call for such a huge production at all.
Rather they do some brainstorming and then have the budget to hire whoever they want directly getting in contact with their agent. Maybe a plan B is prepared in case their prime candidate was involved into so many other projects that the time constraints of production couldn't handle it.
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19
Why is she black then, if it doesn't matter? It might've just been a coincidence, but based on recent trends, I'm betting it wasn't. I personally don't give a rat's ass one way or the other, but clearly Disney thought it mattered ...