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Marlene actress matches character's race


HBO’s The Last of Us is the rare show letting a video game actor reprise her role

Merle Dandridge will play Marlene again for the television adaptation

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/27/22457686/merle-dandridge-hbo-the-last-of-us-adapatation-live-action

But Joel and Tommy - who are white in the game - do not. Hispanic actors were cast for that. Weird. I wonder why? It's almost as if there's an agenda.

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Of course there is an agenda. I’m surprised they didn’t pick a black kid to play Ellie. She’s already a gay character so no need for them to change that.
I, for one, don’t intend on watching this anyway. We all know the show will be pure garbage and come nowhere near what the game story was. They’re going to change so much from the story that it’s not even going to resemble what everyone loved about the story.

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Yup, you nailed it.

It's just more Rainbow Reich garbage with unnecessary race-swapping.

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Yup

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Of course there is an agenda, Joel's daughter was race swapped. Henry's story arc will be changed to focus on matters of race. They will go full woke with it.

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Yeah. Henry’s story will probably have him being forced to leave the group he was with because hes black. His former group will be full of racist white men who forced him and his poor little brother out.

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