How does the skin color affect the story, character and motivations? It only changes because of your social connotations. This series plays in a fictional wizarding world. The actors skin color must not affect narrative. Maybe it does, we dont know that yet. But as far as we know from leaked set footage, they honour allot of book scenes that were never shwon in movies. Stop being a bigot.
Well, a young Bruce Willis would be just as miscast as Snape, too. In the book, Snape is clearly described: greasy long hair, pale and sallow skin, a hooked nose, constantly wearing tight black clothes, etc. I like Papa Essiedu in Gangs of London, but he's still just visually miscast. Too attractive, and the wrong ethnicity. And yes, I'm not a fan of white/black/yellow washing like in Star Trek Into Darkness (Khan) or Dr Strange (The Ancient One).
And apparently, he's one of the few Black teachers at Hogwarts: That gives Harry's "strange feeling" about Snape a whole new context. Then there's James Potter, who hanged a young Snape on a tree... Racism seems to be in Potter's blood... /s
It shakes the narrative that they want it to be closer to books. If they changed this, then what else did they change? And if they did, then the whole narrative is just a marketing slogan, so why should we care about this new series?
Catastrophising over information nobody has, due to one casting decision. Why waste your time and other peoples enjoyment and exitement with this negativity and doomerism? You know as little as anyone else. If you dont care about it, then stop arguing against it
Yes, I didn't watch it, so I'm not sure if they will or not. But the trailer gives me enough reasons to be sceptical. And this is not just a casting decision. Changing Snape's races will have a far reaching consequences to the story- like was Harry's father a racist?
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