JoeB131
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Why would I say that? David Tennant did play a Scottish Lord in Mary Queen of Scots, and he was fine.Your reasoning is obtuse. You will say Scottish actors like David Tennant couldn't play a Scottish lord in 11th century White Scotland,
Of course, whenever I see a Doctor Who actor in anything, I can't take them seriously. They've been typecast.
Now speaking of Doctor Who #10, he did a series called Broadchurch, where he spoke in his natural Scottish accent. (He did Received Pronunciation when he played the Doctor). When he did the American version, Gracepoint, he put on an American Accent which just didn't sound right.
I don't think anyone cares about Alex Cross that much...To score points on Twitter if someone did another Alex Cross film if they cast Michael Keaton in the lead role. The backlash would be intolerant to whites.
They would pressure a legend to drop out of the movie because he is white. It is a double standard, and it is also one-sided.
Not really. "Legends" aren't cast often because they are legends. You hit a certain level of stardom, your casting choices actually become more limited.
James Bond is a white man. Ian Designed him. White, so he continued to be adapted for decades. As white as he should be, making him black would be silly, and people like you would call us racist for speaking out how they are cheating whites out of work.
James Bond is a Cold War spy from when the British Empire was still a thing. the Cold War ended a long time ago, as did the British Empire. If you wanted to make a faithful Bond movie, you should set it in the 1950's or 60's, not the modern day. Once you've taken one liberty with a property, then taking another isn't a big leap.
Going back to my discussion of the series Elementary... another big plot point is Sherlock Holmes addiction to drugs. In some ways this is faithful to the source material, but in other ways it isn't. At the time it was written, drug abuse of cocaine and opium were common vices, but not illegal and not necessarily looked down upon.
By the times the Holmes stories were adapted in the Hayes Era films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, such references were completely expunged. (Except for one line in Hound of the Baskervilles, where Holmes slips in the line 'Bring the needle, Watson!' that must have gotten past the censors.)
Elementary, being a modern show, portrays addiction in the light of the early 21st century, it is treated like a disease, and Watson is introduced as Holmes' sober companion before becoming his partner.
Did they tell Henry Cavill to come back when your older and play 007? Now he gets passed over for being white? Because other whites played the role, how are you going to say that's fair To him and white kids and other white actors like my fan choice Sam Heughan to push them aside and say because I had white James Bonds? And Brosnan and Connery had the chance to play 007, and because I saw myself reflected on-screen, others won't.
Or they might have just felt that putting Superman in the role isn't the right direction to go in. When an actor gets identified with a certain character, they often find it hard to get other roles. Just ask Christopher Reeve. Or George Reeves, for that matter.
They killed off tony stark for being white.
Naw, man, they killed off Tony Stark because Robert Downey was getting $15MM a film for just showing up.
His replacement in the MCU is a black girl. The iron heart is not going to do two billion at the box office. Green lantern is any race, but I read tom cruise turned down to playing Hal Jordan because they wanted to kill him off at the end and replace him with a black guy. Like any rational person, he said. No, he wanted to stay alive.
I think most rationally people realize that when they kill a character in a movie, they don't kill the actor.. Usually.