Opinion | Aramide A. Tinubu: Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman is extreme whitewashing, but not uncommon - NBCNewsTHINK
" — and studios — like Disney with it's casting of Halle Bailey in the live-action version of"The Little Mermaid" — to use colorblind casting.
And, during his Focus interview, Howard explained that his Harriet Tubman biopic was given the green light only after two predominantly Black-cast films shattered box office expectations.
But 25 years after a Hollywood executive called for Julia Roberts to be cast as Harriet Tubman, true diversity and inclusion within the studio system has not yet been achieved. Blackness is currently a commodity, but a flop or two from a predominantly Black-cast or"diverse" film at the box office could certainly change that.
And, this push toward diversity, especially when Black actors are cast, still causes uproar. This notably occurred with the 2012 film adaptation of “The Hunger Games.” Though her race was never explicitly stated in the book, the character of Rue was described as a darker-hued character. But the casting of Black actor Amandla StenbergAnd when Noma Dumezweni was cast in 2015 as Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Broadway, series creator J.K.
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