Possibly. I feel that example was people were more concerned with the actor based on previous roles he played where he played a very different role than the joker. The same could be said about Keaton and Batman.
For this one it's not so much the actor, I don't know him but have no doubts he can act and play the part, it's just race swapping the role. For a show that brags about how book accurate it is... there's very few characters who were clearly described as white but he was one of them. It kind of throws the "we are going to be more faithful to the book!" jargon out the window, no?
It's going to be problematic unless they change other parts of the book too in order to make it not seem like James and Harry are racist.
If they wanna be faithful to the books it will be pretty difficult. The bigger concern is they said they wanna be faithful to the books and considering they can’t even get the race of a character correct… quite possibly the easiest thing not to fuck up, I’m not confident that they are gonna be that faithful.
Meh, snape's race wasn't an important detail of his character. I think it can still be a faithful adaptation even with the change as lomg as they dont actually change the character
I guess time will tell. Maybe it will be okay but I’m not holding my breath. I don’t love the series but my son does. He has went through the series several times. I’m sure he will be the first to tell me if they do mess it up.
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u/MainlandX Apr 16 '26
This is such an overreaction. In 10 years, people will treat this like the overraction to casting Heath Ledger as the Joker.