"What did you read in that article that made you write your second sentence?"
This part: 'But films with a majority of non-white actors are not as profitable.'
By the way, audiences and viewers, including white people, love diversity. But diversity itself does not a hit film or show make. There are plenty of shows that have flopped with minority leads and diverse casts and there are plenty of hit shows with non-diverse casts that non-white viewers enjoy.
Audiences and viewers do not especially care for diversity; great acting is what it is all about.
"Are you talking about me shrugging you off?"
What? No. I'm talking about white complaints about race-changing being shrugged off by people.
"And I said I doubt locations matter much anymore; that includes the U.S. and Canada. I'll amend that, though, to "among English speaking countries"."
People already know that different races live among majority white nations or English-speaking countries or whatever else you're trying to say. I don't see the point though. Producers shouldn't be wasting their time picking and
"The cast of this show is mostly white. The three most important parts are white (Archie, Jughead and Betty), and Kevin, Moose, Cheryl, Jason, Ethel, and all their parents and siblings are white. Even Reggie and Veronica are half white. Ms. Grundy's white, the butler's white and Sabrina will probably be white. It's more white than anything, so...what are you talking about?"
I was talking in general. I've seen perfectly diverse casts criticized as still too white as if white people aren't part of diversity too.
But as for Archie or any other adaptation whose characters' races are very well-established in pop culture, it is obnoxious pandering when their race is changed from white to non-white. If they want more racial diversity (as if viewers care all that much), create ORIGINAL non-white character or race-change LESSER-KNOWN characters rather than annoying others and telling them to suck it up for some imaginary greater good.
How is "punishing" white actors and "putting innocent white actors' jobs on the line" worse than doing the same thing to non-white actors, if you cast those Riverdale roles with whites?
You're not doing the same thing. You're not even doing anything.
You're simply casting am established character with the acording race. A white person wouldn't care less if Famous Minority Character X is cast by a minority actor so in turn a minority actor shouldn't care less if a white person only is cast as Famous White Character X.
[quote]You didn't quote anything. What you said ("Audiences want to watch GOOD actors perform a role REGARDLESS of race first and foremost. If they want diversity, they'd rather it be from ORIGINAL characters." "No. Like I said, majority white casting is incidental and not racial and audiences of all colors care more about good acting regardless of the race of Actor X—playing an original role.") is disproved by the article showing that audiences prefer their GOOD actors to come in a
variety of races....Which INCLUDES white people.
And did that article say anything about obnoxious race changes to famous characters to pander to them?
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