[ SECRET POST #3510 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3510 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Stephen King]


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03.
[John Green]


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04.
[American Gods]


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05.
[Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword]


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06.
[Penn & Teller: Fool Us]


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07.
[Steven Universe]


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08.
[Questionable Content]


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09.
[Ghostbusters 2016]











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Comments

Re: Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I'm pretty interested in the upcoming American Gods series but I don't know if I want to watch it because of casting decisions. I like a lot of them, but I just can't see Ricky Whittle as Shadow. It's nothing to do with his acting abilities or whatever. In the trailer he seems to have the right expressions. I just think the look is totally wrong to the point where it's putting me off it.

On reading the book, to me Shadow is supposed to clearly NOT be explicitly black. A ton of other characters are given clear racial identifiers, there are a lot of black characters and white characters and people of other races, but Shadow stands out as the one person that is never ever actually identified. Whenever people look at him they see a big guy, not a big BLACK guy. He gets asked if he has native blood and his answer is like eh, maybe. To me that reads as someone who is maybe white at first glance, but questionable enough to be asked if he was mixed. Ricky Whittle is someone who LOOKS obviously black to the point where people wouldn't ask if he's anything else, and Shadow gets asked if he's part black, not if he's part WHITE.

And in America racist people don't ask black people if they're mixed. If they look black, they're black. Case in point: half-white "Black" President of the United States, Barack Obama.

Plus I actually do think Ricky Whittle is kind of sexy. Which is cool! But Shadow in the books is like a big hurpy boyish guy who is not quite a man and whose wife calls him puppy. He's cute. He's not hot, or sexy, really.

It kind of bothers me. I'm not for taking away roles from black actors or anything like that, but I am more against not putting in mixed actors which get even less explicitly mixed-race roles. And as someone who IS also mixed race I actually liked that narrative point, which felt like a physical reflection or representation of Shadow also being half-god / half-man and not quite fitting in either culture.

Secret because U RACIST HOW DARE U DISLIKE A BLACK ACTOR CASTING and all the usual wank.

Quote from the book: "Maybe you got nigger blood in you."
- said no one ever, to an obviously black person