There are some fake shows out there that have 100% white casts, which bothered me when I saw them. I was going to make a thinky post about it.. but my own cast seems to be suffering from token-minority-itis. :| So it's probably not my place to judge.
But to look at it from another direction.. tv already suffers from whitewashing, and I picked my actors from my favorite tv shows mostly, and I had an extremely hard time coming up with any non-white actors to put in my roles. I got Zoe Saldana who is not even a tv actor, and Ninomiya Kazunari who can't even really speak English in reality. I was having a hard time finding non-white actors who fit the roles as I saw them in my head because there wasn't much of a pool to start with, I think.
In short, I LOVE LEE THOMPSON YOUNG AND I'M GLAD HE WON.
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Date: 2010-01-31 01:25 am (UTC)But to look at it from another direction.. tv already suffers from whitewashing, and I picked my actors from my favorite tv shows mostly, and I had an extremely hard time coming up with any non-white actors to put in my roles. I got Zoe Saldana who is not even a tv actor, and Ninomiya Kazunari who can't even really speak English in reality. I was having a hard time finding non-white actors who fit the roles as I saw them in my head because there wasn't much of a pool to start with, I think.
In short, I LOVE LEE THOMPSON YOUNG AND I'M GLAD HE WON.