Out of 32 cast members, 18 of them are white. Most of the major characters are white.
I'm sorry, I thought this took place in the Middle East and Africa. Shouldn't more of the actors representing these characters be... oh, I don't know... BROWN?
Also disappointed that this is a TV series. The book really deserves a theater release and a Hollywood budget. They're turning a great piece of literature about women into a period joke.
Thanks a lot, Lifetime.
First of all, it's made by Hollywood, I wouldn't expect it to be Scripturally accurate. Secondly, most of the characters (at least all those of Dinah's tribe) would be Jewish. Not always "brown". How many Jews do you know? Michael Landon was Jewish, he look brown? Joe Lieberman? Steven Spielberg? Leonard Bernstein? And those are just the 1st ones that come to mind that aren't personal friends that you wouldn't know.
shareBeing Jewish these days isn't a matter of race; in Dinah's time it was. Jews were Semitic, not black or even brown, but certainly not Caucasian. All that said, who really cares how they look?
First of all, it's made by Hollywood, I wouldn't expect it to be Scripturally accurate. Secondly, most of the characters (at least all those of Dinah's tribe) would be Jewish. Not always "brown". How many Jews do you know? Michael Landon was Jewish, he look brown? Joe Lieberman? Steven Spielberg? Leonard Bernstein? And those are just the 1st ones that come to mind that aren't personal friends that you wouldn't know.
Ouch, my head hurts at such moronic statements, especially people confusing modern Ashkenazi Jews with Ancient Hebrews.
Really? Are you that dim? Even bringing up Genetics is completely pointless in this context, we are not talking about modern American (Ashkenazi) Jews.
Modern Jewish populations are on every Continent and represent many different ethnic groups, this was not the case in the time that is represented here, however, it is correct that women of many diverse tribes would have been taken as wives (and there were bondsmen within the tribe also, who knows where they were from?). So it is not unlikely that these people would have been diverse in their appearance, what WAS insensitive was the fact that you had the good / evil siblings represented by the brown Levi/Simon and the white Dinah/Joseph. That was really racially insensitive, they should have done better there.
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Gosh, I've seen plenty of pictures of Jeses. Don't you all know that he had flowing red hair, baby blue eyes, and beautiful white skin? I mean I've seen him in bibles, plaques, every where...Religious people would never lie about that...
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It's the 21st Century. Amazing how so many believe in ancient fairy tales, too. I'm with Ronald Reagan's REAL SON. It's old nonsense.
The middle east in those days was a mixture--light, medium, dark; red, brown, black, etc. A mini-series can get more detail in than a movie, e.g: Outlander. Anyway, see how the story goes before you slam it--go with the flow.
http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2010/05/ethnicity-of-david-and-abraham.html
White is right.
shareAs much as I hate whitewashed casting, I will say that, as a Middle-Easterner myself, we're more diverse than you think. I have the black hair and olive skin of my dad's side of the family, but my mom's side is mostly fair-skinned and brown-haired, some even with blue eyes.
Yes, I would like more opportunities in Hollywood for non-white actors. But not every person in the Middle East looks like me. When I worked as a college professor, I had a blonde, blue-eyed student who was half Native American. She got her looks from her Scandinavian father rather than her Ojibway mother. Genetics can be funny that way.
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This could never be made into a full-length movie because it would be too long. Even at three hours (last night there was a good thirty minutes of commercials)the mini-series only skimmed the depth of what the book had was about; the love/hate relationships of (the) women, which is still universal today. And I believe that part of the magic of the book is because it speaks to one woman in a different way than another. How can you make one movie do all that?
Why don't people understand..cities closer to coast have population with a mixed degree of skin color..ie major cities in Egypt..the further south, the darker the skin..SudanNubia..the further north, the lighter the skin..England/Gual..its a normal mixing of races that develop various skin tones along coast lines where populations are mixing due to migration.. Look at ancient Egyptian tomb paintings..the clearly show a variance in skin tone. Nothing racist here folks..walk away.
shareI worked in the Persian (aka Arabian) Gulf for 17 years and travelled extensively in the Arab world. While the majority tend to have olive skins and dark eyes there are still many fair skinned Arabs, Jews, Kurds and Persians with green, gray or blue eyes and blonde sometimes even red hair. The near east is an age old crossroad for human beings and has always been a melting pot of Saharan, Negroid, Indo-European and Semitic races so one should not stereotype the population of the region. You will note from The Red Tent Part I, or by reading the early chapters of the Old Testament, that many of the wives, though mostly Semitic, were not Jewish by faith. Slave girls could be bought in markets in urban centres all over the region and often bore chidren to Jewish men. These women slaves could be anything from Negroid to Caucasian as well as non-Jewish Semites.Nevetheles, the actresses in this show looked very much middle eastern to me; the male actors seemed more mixed but not out of place.
shareI came to this board being a fan of Will Tudor. I had no idea what this movie was about until I read the summary and looked at the set photos. Now I'm disappointed, and I won't be watching the series, even to see Will. I agree with you about the whitewashing...yet again. There's lots of delusion and denial in this thread, I see. The main characters should not have white skin. I think people today forget that the people who exist in modern Egypt are not the same people who existed during the time this story took place. And the majority of people in Egypt back then did NOT have white skin. Also, the term "Middle East" did not exist back then. Just because people in the Middle East look a certain way, I would never equate that with the people of Ancient Egypt. More people need to get educated on Ancient Egypt and stop believing the myth that white people always ruled that region.
If you look at some paintings of Roman Egyptian art, they depicted the native Egyptian people with brown skin, dark hair and eyes, not like the white people you see typically cast in these Bible movies. Also, I've never personally seen an actual drawing or painting from Ancient Egypt with a white face, blonde or brown hair and blue eyes. I've always been fascinated with the culture. I've never seen anyone look like Rebecca Ferguson. But I've seen plenty of paintings of Egyptian women with brown skin, dark hair and eyes.
Hoo-ly-wood fake movie. When Turkish Star Wars was made no one looked like Mark Hamill. F-A-K-E still picture moving at a fixed frame rate per second.
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