[ SECRET POST #4408 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4408 ⌋

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

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02.
[Snowpiercer]


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03.
[Taylor Swift/Tom Hiddleston]


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04.
[Game of Thrones]


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05.
[Titans]


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06.
[BoJack Horseman]


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07.
[Criminal Minds season 4, episode 14 "Cold Comfort"]


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08.
[She-Ra]


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09.
[Queer Eye]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

... This is getting out of hand. What's next, abled voice actors voicing disabled characters is problematic?

[liz_marcs]

You're kind of missing the point.

In a perfect world where white VOA and POC VOA are regularly cross-cast regardless of the ethnicity of the animated face, it doesn't matter.

However, this being NOT a perfect world, a white VOA tends to be the default while POC VOA tend to be left out in the cold. And yes, there are a handful of POC VOA that are cross-cast if you take ALL animated media into account (movies, TV, streaming, video gaming), the default is still pretty much white VOA.

Add in that you have an *explicitly* Vietnamese-American character, it does matter in this instance. While I wouldn't go so far as to call it white-washing (white voicing?), I can completely get why someone who is of Asian descent would be uncomfortable with casting a white actor to voice a Vietnamese-American character.

In RBW's defense, he's been doing a shit-ton of work making sure POC VOAs are cast in Bojack Horseman. Some voicing animal characters, some voicing white characters, some voicing characters that match the VOA's ethnicity. Some are even in major roles.

So, on balance, it ultimately might not matter as much when you're specifically talking about Bojack Horseman since production is doing its best to hire POC VOAs in major roles and not just as background characters. However you still have to take history and the broader media into account. And that is, historically, white VOAs voicing animated POC characters has been the default, while currently white VOAs are mostly still the default regardless of the animated character's ethnicity.

It's about fairness, full stop.

[(Anonymous)]

Well said.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn right!