On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:57 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lt. Commander Worf *wasn't *played by an ACTUAL Klingon. > This problem is like the Othello situation. Traditionally all the actors were white and the actor playing Othello wore blackface. If you try to solve the problem by saying that only a Black actor can play Othello does that mean all of the other roles are limited to white actors? A lot of casts practice diversity in that roles in general can go to anybody regardless of region of origin for them or their parents. So if the Othello cast is diverse, then what about Othello? Can he now be white? There was at least one production of Othello with a Black cast and white Othello but that's as much a stunt as a way forward. When I was watching The Great I got confused at first. The characters were all Russian with the exception of Catherine who was German. Yet the actors were white, Black, and Asian. It's likely that a port and capital city would have a more diverse makeup than the provinces and I remember that Russia's national poet, Pushkin, had some African ancestry and nobody held it against him. Plus the Russian Empire extended into Asia so Asians could be in the court. After a few episodes I figured out that they were being color blind in regards to casting and so non-white actors were playing white characters. In another show could the reverse be put into practice or is that appropriation? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGRC4aEQhs1LqHZtctMuddSU1-M%2BjndynFXXkFQQyu7hg%40mail.gmail.com.
