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What do you think about white actors being cast as black historical figures and vice versa?

Asked by JLeslie (65415points) January 10th, 2016 from iPhone

Like the live TV version of The Sound of Music having a black nun, Mother Abbess?

Or, if a white actor would play a black inventor maybe? Or, even lesser parts like friends, or spouses.

Casting an actor of a different race than what the writer originally envisioned in a work of fiction is one thing, but actual people in our history? Should we care whether they look like the actual person, down to skin color?

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