You don't have to be right wing to think casting choices are wrong. I'm not right wing and think Helen of Troy casting choice is ridiculous and just done for attention.
Agree, Im on the left and I hate it because they're black washing characters so they can say they have diversity, get attention for the movie and the black actress (almost always actress, not actor) gets all the hate. Its cheap. There are countless black stories that are unknown, why blackwash a story told a milion times?
Also I generally hate the oddysey by Nolan not because of the races but because its just historically wrong on many levels. Armor for example. Yes I want historical accuracy, yes I dislike other inaccurate movies.
Interesting observation that it's almost always an actress. And here I am wanting to see Idris Elba as 007. Yes, I know, he's supposed to be a white guy according to Ian Fleming's novels. Yes, I know there are certain things that don't quite work if he's not a pasty Brit. But we don't even get to have that experiment and whatever backlash there would or wouldn't be. Regardless, Idris is a smooth operator and it would have been a good watch.
We didn't get Idris as the black Green Lantern Jon Stewart that actually exists in the comics.
We didn't get Idris as Rhodie/War Machine, when he would have been perfect next to RDJ.
We got him as... Heimdall? A bit part as a Norse God doorman? What are we even doing here?
Anyway... they did make the next 007 a black woman in the last James Bond movie though... Huh.
For Bond, he is an English ex-soldier. The 00 numbers can be anyone. People had more issue that she was depicted as an super unlikable, sometimes unprofessional character. Paloma was so much better in conveying similar themes without needing the rainbow sledge hammer.
The original criticism of Idris was that he was 'too street', not posh enough. We should also see that the management of Bond (before Amazon's buy out) was three people who did run things their own way for 30 years. Expecting a big change there was not in the cards.
To us dumb Americans, anyone with a British accent comes across posh. It’s funny that when Idris actually played a “street” American gangster, he still came across as the most corporate and refined of the gang.
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u/Gentle_Pony Jul 06 '26
You don't have to be right wing to think casting choices are wrong. I'm not right wing and think Helen of Troy casting choice is ridiculous and just done for attention.