So I figured I would give this show a chance since I like John Stamos but one small little casting detail bother me and believe me I usually do not get so militant but, let me get this straight, Josh peck okay white guy had a baby with Christina Milian character who is black and Cuban real life so a dark skin woman but the baby turns out white? Seriously not a mixed baby but a straight hair white baby and they wonder why people say Hollywood can be so prejudice.
shareThe baby does not look white to me. The baby looks mixed. I don't know the ethnic background of the child actor but I thought the casting was very believable. I know plenty of mixed people with that child's skin tone.
Yeah, my brother is mixed race and he has way lighter skin than that baby.
It's really hard to cast young children and they did a pretty good job making it believable.
The baby is mixed. I know mixed-race people who are far lighter than that baby. And mixed-race people who are darker. Christina Milian isn't that dark to begin with, and Josh Peck is pretty fair. Maybe you're confused because John Stamos, though white, is pretty olive.
I mean, if you don't like the show, don't watch it, but this seems like a dumb reason.
John Stamos is Greek, that's an ethnic race. So,I don't consider that, white.
shareI'm Greek. Greeks are white. What you "consider" is irrelevant, but if you saw me, you wouldn't think I was anything but white because I'm fair. My father had green eyes. Is Tina Fey not white to you? How about Zack Galfianakis (Hint: He has blue eyes)? Does Jennifer Aniston look mixed-race to you? Last time I filled out a form, there was no box under race for Greek. I checked white.
John Stamos is dark because he is on the darker side of Greeks, but also, because he obviously tans intentionally.
@crinrgbrght5 You don't consider that white? And who pray tell are you? The creator of all mankind, I don't think so thus what you consider has no baring on anything, I consider you to be an uneducated knowledge deprived racist moron. I think my consideration was more on point than yours as mine could at least be true where yours is the mutterings of an idiot.
shareJohn Stamos is Greek...I don't consider that, white.Hold on...let me go look in the mirror...yep, just as I suspected. I'm white. And you're wrong. share
I thought she looked mixed. She's not blonde-haired and blue-eyed.
shareThe baby wasn't at all unrealistic. In real life if a lightskinned Hispanic woman like Christina Milian had a baby with a white guy like Josh Peck, chances are it would be lighter than her and, for all intents and purposes, look more white than anything. The only thing that might set it apart from the next white kid would be things like eyes and maybe nose, and even that would be vague. But skin tone and hair, nah. The kid they used is fine.
Plus it's not easy to cast babies for TV and movies. In most instances, they'll go with the child who was the most calm and behaved during the casting call.
Not to mention, genes can be a quirky thing sometimes. IRL, I had a co-worker who described herself as 'black as coal', and her husband 'white as the proverbial bedsheet'. Their son was every bit as pale as his father--random strangers would never believe her when she said it was her child.
I ran into them a few months back. Her son is still as pale white as his father is (he's about 13 years old now.) He's practically a carbon-copy of his dad in features as well. Just goes to show that mixed race isn't always blatantly obvious.
That reminds me of a situation my sister described recently involving herself, her husband and their son. Our family's background is mostly German/French/English/Irish etc. and my sister has blonde hair & blue eyes. My sister's husband is half Italian American, is somewhat slim, & has dark hair, brown eyes, and an olive complexion much like John Stamos.
Anyway, when their son was born last August, my sister thought her son looked a lot like her husband since the baby was born with dark hair, etc., however now at just over a year old, his hair has lightened & he's gained weight so that he now more resembles my sister when she was a toddler, if not our one brother from when he was a baby years ago. Since that's the case now, my sister told me how my (somewhat naive) brother-in-law mentioned how his coworkers had tried to convince him that the baby might not be his son because the baby doesn't look exactly like him, he isn't as slender, dark, and 'Italian American looking' as himself (or his 8 yr old nephew). Fortunately my sister was able to reassure him that of course he was their son together...but its crazy he'd even question it.
My mom also has an olive skin tone--she got it from her dad, her mom was fair-skinned. My mom goes on to marry a fair-skinned man (my dad), and has one kid with fair skin tone (me) and two with olive-skinned tone (my brother and sister.) If my facial features weren't hers exactly, I'm not sure anybody would believe I was hers! *grin*
shareI thought the baby was fine, but yes, it's true about not having a catalog of babies from which to choose. The baby on The Mindy Project, while adorable, is also pretty clearly black. But yeah, to find a young baby who is mixed-race Indian and white, who showed up at the audition, and who was good enough to be on the show, would be hard.
In both cases, they'll likely replace the baby as it gets older. For every Olsen twins who just randomly take to it, there is a Modern Family baby who can behave but not act.
Mixed kids can come out very light sometimes I think a lot of people would consider Christina Milian to be light skinned so her plus Josh Peck could conceivable make a lighter skinned baby. The baby isn't exactly lily white she has brown hair and brown eyes And her skin tone is not so light that I couldn't believe she was mixed with other races.
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Mixing an Afro-hispanic person with a white person could make a light-skinned baby, this is true. But the baby's skin tone would a little "off white". My family has a lot of light skinned Hispanic kids and they are very light, but you can tell they're not white. It should be similar with the kid in this show, but her skin tone is definitely that of a white child. She should be a pale-ish kind of off-white, but she's more of a pinkish kind of white like many white people are. It's not impossible for the child to be part Hispanic, but it is incredibly unlikely given the ethnicity of the mother.
shareChristina is multi-racial and fare enough to the point where a child of hers could realistically come out looking any kind of way depending on who she had it with. Josh Peck white genes could very likely wash out the darker skin hue or straighten out the curlier hair that might be preserved if she had a kid with a man who had similar features as hers. In other words, a kid she had with a hispanic man would be hispanic. A kid with a black man would be black. A kid with a white man would be white. In her child I can imagine that her ethnic features could easily be dominated by the fathers if his were more clear cut and decided.
shareWait Christina Milian is DARK skinned??? Could have fooled me
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The baby doesn' even look that white and it's sometimes common for an interacial couple's child to turn out more of the father's color plus Christina Milian isn't that dark so the baby's skin would be lighter in general. There are sometimes really dark skinned women who have babies by white men and they come out light skinned. That's just the blend. The babies really dont look that white to me.
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