Hollywood Casting HYPOCRISY!!

Hollywood are at it again, trying to create revisionist history. However they seem to have a very hypocritical attitude to casting. Apparently you can race change historical characters but you are not allowed to accurately cast fictional characters???
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[@Yogurt_Fingers]

Love that and Egyptian lawyer is suing Netflix over this.

[@CyBerCat6410]

Why? Ancient/Greek Egyptians are long gone?

[@SamtheBravesFan]

It's probably not going anywhere, but it does symbolize how it's not just Americans that are upset.

[@animeangel1983]

@@CyBerCat6410 Egyptians are very protective of their history, even if their historical figures have been dead for centuries. They do not tolerate inaccuracies in their history.

[@primmakinsofis614]

@@animeangel1983 Look, you tell those Egyptian historians that Tina Gharavi and Jada Pinkett Smith know far more about Egyptian history than those professional historians ever will.

[@animeangel1983]

@@primmakinsofis614 They won't listen to me, I don't have the right pronouns.

[@PolishTank]

"At least we know that Tarzan will never be race-swapped because they wouldn't want a black actor to portray a character that lives in the jungle and acts like an ape." This quote sums it up pretty well.

[@winry2357]

In Black Panther there was a group of men who barked like apes any time the white man tried to speak. They’ve done it already, Tarzan isn’t safe. Worse yet, the libs saw it as both funny and empowering. Most of the backlash was from people with legit brains who pointed out that they made the black men act like animals.

[@KomboEzaliTe]

They'll just turn Jane to John.

[@Xbalanque84]

​@@KomboEzaliTe For fuck's sake, _don't give them ideas!_

[@cats4603]

@@Xbalanque84 too late lol

[@gardogodinez6621]

@@KomboEzaliTe They will cast Leslie Jones as Jane.

[@louashfield5902]

Anne Boleyn: "We made her black to have young ones identify with her _"victimhood"_ status." Cleopatra: "We wanted her black coz Jada wanted to live the fantasy of being a powerful queen lording over peasants." Nani: "We stuck to a Hawaiian actress." *Gets backlash over the actress being a bit lighter on the skin*

[@keto3883]

to be fair nani isn t well cast if you want to stick with the source. just because lunatics come to the same conclusion with crazy reasoning, doesn t mean you can come to that conclusion. Anne Boleyn is bad, Cleopatra is bad and Nani is bad casting if you want accurately cast from source material.

[@louashfield5902]

@@keto3883 I honestly agree with that. I am not buying that they cast a hawaiian actress out of respect for the original at all. This is Disney after all; everything they do is for an agenda. I suspect they "tried" to be respectful for this one coz they will butcher something really bad later in the movie....probably Stitch and the aliens. Just look no further than The *_Black_* Little Merrmaid trailers to see how they butchered flounder and Sebastian. Am sure stitch will be uglier than a butthole, no offense to buttholes. 😂 But I still enjoy seeing those who support raceswaps have meltdowns over this one, which is very hilarious.

[@henrygambles3652]

Jada is as faithful to Will as John McAfee was to his wife(props to anyone who gets that comparison!)

[@smoothsketch]

The racist underlying premise is that black people are incapable of empathy for anyone of other races, so they have to make characters black to induce empathy

[@Ladywizard]

@@louashfield5902 The actor for Bubbles doesn't look like a linebacker... Nani just needs some time in the sun

[@ryansmurda1552]

Making Ann Boleyn black may be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

They used to defend race swapping by claiming it only affected fictional characters. Turns out the slippery slope isn't a right wing myth.

[@RyanG0899]

And the most racist

[@MediumRareOpinions]

@@JDoe-gf5oz Slippery slope implies its an unintended consequence just slipping down the slope, this is the *thin end of the wedge* , something that finds a crack and hammers in a wedge deeper to widen that crack with deliberate intent.

[@mapron1]

I am not American. And even more, I never would meet black person in my life, bu... isn't it also offensive for colored people? I am not even raising if racism to white people possible (whatever), but who can really beneficial for that decision?

[@eddardgreybeard]

@@MediumRareOpinions *Slippery slope implies its an unintended consequence just slipping down the slope* No, slippery slope is very much "give an inch, take a mile." "Legalize gay marriage, pedophilia is next." People like me cringed so hard, groaned and facepalmed, throwing our hands in the air and shouting at the top of our lungs, "THEY'RE CHILDREN, THEY CAN'T CONSENT!" But here we are and believe me I couldn't effing believe they'd be right. Never in my life would I have expected it. The only thing that makes the slippery slope a fallacy is that the future is otherwise unknowable, but it isn't like we don't have a frame of reference with previous instances.

[@Jeff-cn9up]

These are the same afrocentric-racist people that objected to Rami Malek playing an Egyptian. Despite Rami Malek being a native Egyptian. Lol.

[@Mordring]

They are simpletons to the highest level. Their "thought" process must be akin to: Egipt is in Africa. Africans are black. Egiptians must be black.

[@scarlett19b]

*You mean:* 👉🏽 *Rami!* 👈🏽

[@Jeff-cn9up]

@@scarlett19b Oops. Yeah, typo. Thanks!

[@maszkalman3676]

Also Rami malik looks like a spitting image of a scribe of some pharaoh whose little statue were found....

[@jellyrolly]

He is also coptic, meaning he does descend from the OG ancient egyptians and not of just the arabs who went to egypt later on.

[@justNGC604]

Netflix wants to become the next Disney. Which probably doesn't mean what Netflix thinks it means.

[@LazyCreepypasta]

A world without Netflix sounds pretty amazing. At least we wouldn’t have a bunch of crappy life action anime’s

[@kenb2671]

They want to male woke crap that no one will watch? Heck they already do that😆👍🏾

[@chelsthegameruiner8669]

All they're missing is hitting our governor with a lawsuit. Yes, Disney is actively trying to sue Florida's governor over something I can't remember

[@daniellastuart3145]

Netflix is shooting it's self in the foot by ditching shows that we the viewer love for it own ego of everything must be new it my work in the USA but in Europe and the UK we love longevity

[@WorldWalker128]

They also don't have the money for it. They'll fail as a company LONG before Disney goes utterly broke. Unfortunately. Walt was no saint, but I imagine if he saw what they're doing with his legacy that he'd be pissed.

[@silverscorpio24]

Can't wait for Malcom X to be played by Chris Pine.

[@vertigo2894]

Why is it when you people want to make a comparison it's always to black figures who had struggles with race?

[@Haterator]

@@vertigo2894 Can't wait for Ryan Gosling to star as T'Challa in Black Panther. Better now, you special snowflake?

[@silverscorpio24]

@@vertigo2894 Because black people aren't the only ones who struggled with equality and Hollywood has a blatant double standard when it comes to "representation".

[@osets2117]

​@@vertigo2894 "you people", really? You want to play that game? Maybe it's because they're the ones most people would be familiar with. Ever think of that? Of course not you'd rather try to make it sound racist

[@vertigo2894]

@@osets2117 You are the one trying to contort what people are saying. You pick figures known for racial issues. There are famous black people with all kinds of backgrounds you silly things

[@Jeromad]

I love this diverse casting, can't wait for the Rosa Parks biopic starring Michelle Yeoh or Salma Hayek!

[@harbl99]

_Rosa, The True Story_ starring Florence Pugh.

[@mrcliff3709]

Or the last nigga on earth starring Tom Hanks !

[@susanmacdonald4288]

Oh, good lord...they wouldn't dare!

[@jamesdalton2014]

I love imagining their heads exploding if someone said: "My grandmother said 'I don't care what they tell you in school, Martin Luther King was white!' ".🤯

[@StephenSmith-xw3yx]

Being that Selma is white they wouldn’t. But the East Asian Asian woman is more likely.

[@NeravarSneed86]

yeah we know they are hypocrites. we've known for years.

[@vertigo2894]

So are you

[@DarthScorpion]

@@vertigo2894 please explain bruv

[@PoopaChallupa]

I see the mistake you're making. From our perspective, they are being hypocritical. But from their perspective, they are not. They are consistent when it comes tp their hatred of white people. Diversity = Less white. Representation = less white. Inclusive = less white. It's even worse than hypocrisy when you think about it from their perspective.

[@vertigo2894]

@@DarthScorpion If you look people who complain about everything you will find them, left or right. There are conservatives who use racial slurs on these cast members. There are problems on both sides.

[@boethius8114]

@@vertigo2894yawn

[@Leamichellefan2244]

It’s bad enough when you try to change fictional characters which I’ve already talked about but when you do it to real life characters, and then you expect people to take your version of them as the truth, then there’s a real problem.

[@septillion2501]

History is written by the victors, and we're seeing them rewriting Western history in real time.

[@radioflyer68911]

Ditto. They should least come right out and honestly state that they're trying to cloud the current generation's perception of history.

[@Leamichellefan2244]

@@radioflyer68911 I completely agree with you they should do that but they won’t do that. I mean my god what’s next are they going to try to change Helen Keller? Oh wait, they might actually leave her alone because according to these morons, they don’t think she even existed even though she’s well documented.

[@KomboEzaliTe]

@@Leamichellefan2244 Is that the argument that part of it was written in ball-point pen, which wasn't invented until long after her death?

[@Leamichellefan2244]

@@KomboEzaliTe I don’t even know what to do with what you just said.

[@chasehedges6775]

Man, I miss the mid 2000s the same way people miss the 80s and 90s Much better times for movies, Tv and life in general

[@ryansmurda1552]

I agree. I grew up in the 80s. I think society as a whole started to go downhill around 2010 and has got really bad in the last 5-6 years. I miss those days, too.

[@septillion2501]

I miss everything pre-2014

[@tacticalmattfoley]

It's easy to be nostalgic for better times......

[@TheProbasher]

sure as hell getting more n more sad the whole 2012 "end of the world" thing was a sham...

[@GaiaLegend]

The 80's and 90's had several politicial movies and shows as well, BUT it wasn't in your face like today. If you didn't paid attention to all that, it most likely went all over your head because it was always a background thing or concept, and never the whole picture. That is what I miss, enjoying things if you wanted to. Today you have to make a choice if you watch something, to make sure if you want to be entertained, or to be fucking annoyed with all the messaging in these movies or stories. If I go and watch the Mario movie, I know I will be entertained, so I go and watch it. If I go and see the Marvel movies, I need to be aware that it's another one of those silly superhero movies where there is no superhero because all the ladies do it much better.

[@alexfriedman918]

If a man feels like a woman today, he can go into a women’s changing room, but a girl who is part-Hawaiian, lives in Hawaii, and considers herself Hawaiian needs approval and permission from the Twitter Racial Purity Committee?

[@rosmundsen]

Cleopatra was a Macedonian/Greek. Science.

[@Lefty217]

Can't wait for them to cast Christian Bale as Obama.

[@chasehedges6775]

“THIS NATION JUST SHOWED YOU THATS ITS FULL PEOPLE READY TO BELIEVE IN GOOD.” 😂😂😂

[@Ashkihyena]

Yeah, might as well ask to be a billionaire while you’re at it.

[@TheSt1092]

Idris Elba as Donald Trump

[@Stormcrow_1]

Waiting for the MLK documentary starring Chris Pratt.

[@stoopidpursun8140]

I think Vin Diesel in a wig as Michelle will be the highlight of the movie though.

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

I remember the writer of Channel 5's Anne Boleyn mini series wanted to do a sequel about Katherine Howard (Henry's 5th wife who also got beheaded). She said something to the effect of "we would repeat the diverse casting as it is something people want to see". Well, the viewing figures for Anne Boleyn tanked and, two years on, no news as to the Katherine Howard sequel. What a shame...

[@Clint52279]

Would Katherine Howard be black too? Would the BBC toss a curve ball and have the role played by a Pakistani transgender woman?

[@LazyCreepypasta]

I never heard about this show until today lol

[@vanessac1721]

I would be insulted as a black woman to be associated with AB and KH. They were both women of ill repute to put it mildly. AB did get everything she could to get Henry to split with Katherine of Aragon and ruined her life. She was cruel to Mary. KH just banged anyone and everyone going and got hung for treason. Not exactly great role models for women. There are far better to choose from.

[@xposetruth5681]

No black person even wants this! We don’t!!!

[@ragepig1059]

@@vanessac1721 lol wtf does this mean, leave wh*te people with those evil women of ill repute roles, while we can raceswap actual virtuous wh*te women ? These people are so incresibly racist

[@stoopidpursun8140]

My favorite part was when Cleopatra spun in a circle to summon her pride armor and rainbow sword before proclaiming "It's Cleoing time!" I mean they might as well, since this nonsense is already fantasy.

[@icedriver2207]

Can't wait for Cleopatra to yell "I have the power" and turn into trans he man

[@bumble-bee189]

Jada Smith is as true to history as she is to her husband

[@claudiameier666]

Anne boleyn was not a victim. She played the game and lost.

[@katiePetsy]

Rather her father played the game and lost

[@mpetersen6]

​@@katiePetsy He played the game and she lost. If he got the axe he asked for it.

[@SG-1-GRC]

Anne was forced into a situation that she definitely tried to make the best of and utilised it to influence her husband's politics and religion but she was in love with another man and didn't want to be Henry's Queen or Mistress. He used his position to block her relationship with this other Henry because he wanted her himself and then cruelly forced that same man, who still loved her, to sit as a member of the judges holding her mock trial. Imagine trying to say no to someone with that much power. He was a dictator, an absolute monarch and he killed a lot of people. Moreover, he was delusional and forced others to accept his delusions.

[@Neags]

it immediately goes from non-fiction to fiction

[@Dremag_Gaming]

And in some cases: Fan fiction.

[@primmakinsofis614]

Many documentaries have plenty of fiction in them, sadly. This one is just more blatant about it.

[@maszkalman3676]

More like fantasy :D

[@maszkalman3676]

@@primmakinsofis614 Nope which has fiction can't be a documentary the fictional part of documentaries lies in the line of the knowledge of that time. A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". But these are pure fiction

[@candide]

Let’s not forget another insult to history. In that wonderful series “Hollow Crown”, in the segment about Henry VI (2016), they cast black actress Sophie Okonedo in the role of Margaret of Anjou. Not only that Okonedo, who was 48 at the time, was playing a French princess aged… 15! Granted, Tom Sturridge was 31, playing Henry who was 21. Still it is more plausible than the chosen actress who was three times the right age... and didn’t look much like the portraits of the real character. According to the people in charge, Sophie Okonedo was the only actress for the role. In the whole British Empire, there wasn’t a single other thespian who could play the part. I find it hard to believe.

[@oskariratinen1213]

I actually liked Okonedo's work in that role, she's a good actress. I watched it completely by chance and without thorough knowledge of the exact historical facts like that the character was supposed to be 15 years old. Obviously I did know that a French princess of that age would not have been black. That was just the beginnings of this trend that of every single movie or TV show set in medieval Europe must have at least one black lead, because "Medieval Europe wasn't white" or whatever. Except that it was, so overwhelmingly that if you were born in Medieval Europe, you were extremely unlikely to ever lay your eyes on a single person that was not white or olive skinned in your entire life. Hell, even today there are still areas in Europe where that is the case, especially if you don't go to the bigger cities.

[@gorionzorander2943]

someone in Egypt is sueing Netflix over Cleopatra and Greece is to follow suit.

[@arachnabell]

Let us not forget Vikings, Valhalla, a black actress called Caroline Henderson acted as Jaral Haakon, also Netflix made.

[@theMyouknow]

Yeah its so innacurate that history broke, if she was Mongolian I might have been okey sure, since they did visit us back then, but black hell nah, no *foregin* slave became a Jarl.

[@arachnabell]

@@theMyouknow Dont worry, Eastern Europe is next on agenda. They already started claiming we arent white..

[@xposetruth5681]

@@theMyouknow they all weren’t slaves back then dipstick but I get your point.

[@DeltaArc1136]

At least it was explained in Vikings: Valhalla. Besides, Vikings has been more fiction than history ever since the original series.

[@arachnabell]

@@DeltaArc1136 Well, you can apply that argument to any other historical group, person or country. Also Haakon Sigurdsson, known as Haakon Jarl, was a real person? Or is that not important any more?

[@veracyning5572]

The thing is, I've never seen Anne Boleyn as a victim. She played her hand and got exactly what she wanted. She sent the English monarchy and religion into chaos for centuries because she wanted a crown. She wasn't a naive child, but a ruthless political player who, through no fault of her own, ended up not fulfilling the one task that would have cemented her power and lost her head.

[@squeaky206]

Broke up a marriage, changed centuries of politics and religion and didn't give Henry a son, and got her ass beheaded for it

[@victoriavonheals2384]

She got the last laugh though through her daughter Queen Elizabeth, who went on to become one of the greatest rulers in history, reigning over what was called the Golden Age thanks to her.

[@an0nycat]

Tell them that just because Anne Boleyn wasn't described as a blue-eyed blonde doesn't mean she was black. 😅😅

[@MarieFirst]

Maybe she was blond.

[@jammyjamjars6995]

Make a documentary/film on the life of Gannibal, a black man captured as a boy in Africa, and eventually ended up at the Russian court of Peter the Great, who freed him and made him his godson. His great-grandson was Alexander Pushkin, arguably Russias greatest poet. That story has everything that will make all sides of this issue happy, it’s showing diversity and Gannibals struggles with being a prominent member of Russias court due to his particular circumstances, and satisfies history buffs. The guy was really clever, which brought him to Peters attention, eventually spoke several languages, became a architect/maths tutor, and was even discriminated against when Peter died cause people in the Russian court were intimidated by his superior intellect.

[@morning_dew922]

I just saw Melonie's video and Netflix has been sued by an Egyptian lawyer lol. Good!

[@chrissymc886]

Anne Boleyn actually likely had reddish brown hair so... Another notch on the gingercide.

[@theredneckunicorn9752]

Can we go back to the days of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". Atleast we had fun then.

[@trindalas]

That was a great movie, I picked it up that Black Friday nearest it’s release date just on a whim and loved it. I miss the old Hollywood. There’s so few movies made these days just to entertain people, it’s always agenda, message, politics…

[@Cheetahviper]

The lady who worked on the Anne boleyn story said "we don't know what she looked like anyway". I've seen history books with paintings of her from the time she was alive. As far as nani goes, give the girl a tan and a burger, have her gain some weight and it'll be fine.

[@spagetti5309]

Theyre pretty good at bad lying so makes sense they say stupid shit like that

[@xposetruth5681]

It’s a given she wasn’t friggin black!!!😂

[@ofkitsune1355]

Even if we dont have any portrait of her. She give a birth to the white redhead. It would be nonsense if she was black.

[@annieandelsieofarendelle3294]

We also do know what she looks given that Queen Elizabeth kept a ring on her with a portrait of her mother which showed her as women brownish-red hair and white skin.

[@johnlynn9388]

Well we don’t know what she looked like except for all the records of people who met her, her entire family being white along with her daughter and also the portraits of her done while she was alive 🤣

[@revolverswitch]

Now I'm expecting frozen to be rebooted as a Somalian kingdom.

[@Mordring]

So you haven't seen the sequel and the black Scandinavian officer then? Probably the descendant of those black vikings we've learned so much about thanks to Hollywood.

[@mpetersen6]

Somalia, with glaciers.

[@darrylmars]

Pathetic if people can only care about a character who "looks like me." History is real

[@THEOZZYFUL]

True. If you can only care about someone who looks like you then basically you only care about yourself.

[@melbatoast6403]

His new camera is intense. It's like Futurama predicted: higher resolution than reality.

[@j.springer1496]

By these standards, Inglorious Basterds is also a scholarly "documentary."

[@adrianchan5568]

I got bombarded when I pointed out the casting. So I told them if they claimed those people are black, they should do a write up & show it to the world. But no, instead they laughed it at my face & told me to get out of my shell. So weird these people, always say they have African mix heritage but never want to show it to the world.

[@mizenbarbarossa494]

If you have to see someone of your color, before you can relate, then your whole identity is based on just your color and if you can’t identify with anyone, other than your own color..

[@xposetruth5681]

It’s ridiculous! One of my absolute favorite characters of all time is captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek the next generation. And I am a brown minority female of mixed background. I could give a crap about people looking like me in a TV show or a movie. Are you a good actor? Is the story entertaining? Does it take me through a roller coaster of emotions? That’s what matters.

[@scarlett19b]

*Those type of people share the same mindset as Nazi Germany!* 💯

[@scarlett19b]

@@xposetruth5681 *I can relate!* 🤷🏽‍♀️ *You're spot on.* 👌🏽

[@arkbien9303]

​@@xposetruth5681 my four favorite characters growing up were Jordi and Data from Star Trek and Zack and Billy from Power Rangers. I'm a light skinned biracial woman and I never needed to look like or be the same gender to identify with a character. 💁🏻‍♀️

[@Harahvaiti]

If you can't identify with anyone else but people of your color, that means you're racist. End of story.

[@jonathanfornwalt4919]

I'd like to see how the people supporting this Cleopatra casting would react if in a show about the Zulu it had Shaka portrayed by Sima Liu.

[@julesdowner5585]

Ah ! Anne Boleyn was executred for being an impostor then!!

[@barrywhittingham6154]

These people were the same ones who were complaining about the Gujarati heritage actor Krishna Pandit Bhanji playing the role of Gandhi (also Gujarati). Why? Because he's otherwise known as Sir Ben Kingsley.

[@iangreen4572]

Who's father was Indian

[@theoau]

Maybe they just made a mistake and it was really meant to be about Cleopatra Jones

[@radioflyer68911]

Whenever a company, industry or institution goes full Gillette, treat it as such.

[@thejacal2704]

Never go full Gillette.

[@kazshaw3945]

I often think if Aliens were to look down on us and think shall we attack ,they would simply say to themselves," no need ,they are destroying themselves socially, we'll just sit back and wait "

[@howsentimental]

Thanks for covering this. I love the Tudors and this “portrayal” of Anne Boleyn was laughable and pathetic.

[@kimberleysmith818]

Yep absolutely. I did eventually not see her being black but the story was just boring and bought nothing new to it. However as someone who loves history it was just weird. Do it with fictional characters but real people should be kept as they were.

[@mjones4083]

It was more than that ,it was both racist and offensive .

[@GrubSlime]

They tell us "If you don't like it, don't watch it." Yet if they don't like something the rest of the us likes, they demand we change it to appeal to them. No self awareness from any of them.

[@abcun17]

I am soo looking forward to upcoming biopics of Martin Luther King Jr. played by Ryan Gosling and Harriet Tubman played by Margot Robbie! Yay!

[@mpetersen6]

The biography of Twiggy with that shop teacher from Canada.

[@ObscuredByCloudz]

So far we have Anne Boleyn as a black woman, we have her terrible contradictions from lord of the rings, we have achilles and zeus from Greek mythology as blacks, now Cleopatra and of course the list goes on. Now imagine if they made Tarzan black. 🤔🤔

[@n.mandersmanders5713]

The sad part of Lord of the rings is aside from the black caracters in midevel fantasy europe is that the caracters didn't match the book descriptions. Elfes have long hair and are a strong highstanding clas. All dwarfs have beards and they look a bit more unkept and broad. For some reason they decited that the black elf should have short hair realy smal ears and dirty clothing and the dwarf qween didn't have a beart and wore an extreem lot of makeup. They didn't look like their species at all.

[@owlcowl]

Youre mixing two quite different categories. Cleopatra & Anne Boleyn were actual historical figues. The others are imaginary characters, so they are open to all sorts of creative transmutations & refigurings, which I think should be encouraged.

[@heliotikis]

@@owlcowl Or we could encourage new and original characters instead of just race-swapping ones that have existed for thousands of years? Perhaps we could finally have some African Mythology represented on screen instead of giving them the same European hand-me downs

[@ladythalia227]

They also race and gender swapped a Norwegian Viking ruler. He is now a black woman 😬

[@MarieFirst]

@@owlcowl That does not matter. The intention is to falsify European history and tell our descendants that the white race never existed.

[@neth77]

Just give up on Hollywood, Korean shows are keeping a smile on my face. But i am glad it's giving you content good sir Az.

[@tkps]

Ditto.

[@omarbanuelos3697]

These people live in a crazy fantasy world were they think the world revolves around them and if you don’t agree with them, then you’re a terrible person

[@hez8719]

It's funny how none of the blind castings ever end up white or asian.

[@Darth_Lex]

What ever happened to, " We need a person of this type with that look. " Because the character they are going to play is this and that.

[@scarlett19b]

*Oh You mean Old-fashioned Typecasting!?* *I couldn't agree more!*

[@upschutt4842]

In Germany, we love a cartoon series "Wickie und die starken Männer" (Vicky the Viking according to Wikipedia) and they did two live action movies in 2009 and 2011. The main antagonist, der schreckliche Sven, was played by a black actor, but I did not know it was him until I looked the film up. They "painted" him white to fit the Norwegian skin tone and his slightly bigger nose actually fit and did not look too bad in his giant beard. Yet, the two films were actually made by fans, not political activists.

[@halofreak1990]

If the people casting a black Ann Boleyn actually cared about historical accuracy, assuming the black casting was actually the best person for the job, they'd have broken out the white make-up for her as well, but we all know the type of people who make such casting choices

[@staceya5149]

I just looked up pictures of the character you're describing and wow, they did a great job!

[@upschutt4842]

@@staceya5149 They did indeed

[@wanderingsoul7935]

I'm looking forward to seeing Shaka Zulu cast as a big ginger dude.

[@leonardoD81]

I can’t wait to see the story of Nelson Mandela starring Anthony Hopkins as the title character.

[@Lionstar16]

Just seeing that black Anne Boleyn in the thumbnail is raising my blood pressure sky high - raceswap fictional characters all you want I don't care at this point, but you DO NOT raceswap real life historical people >:(

[@MajorSmurf]

One of the things I dislike about Hollywood is how they make Europe look like a country rather then a continent full to the brim of all different stories and cultures through out it's history. We all know that if Hollywood cared about Diversity they would be telling stories from all across the globe yet they seem to avoid any African mythology or older cultures like the Mayans and Aztecs. They also don't tell seem to like to tell historical stories from Japan or China. They don't look into all the interesting wars between all the countries in Europe. Like the 100 year war or The Spanish Armada. There is so many interesting historical stories they could tell. By telling from all over the glove they get to preach how diverse they are and we get some actual proper accurate history.

[@ManicMaynard]

Anyone for Benedict Cumberbatch to play Ghandi? Tom Holland for Joan of Ark? Henry Cavil looking for a job at mo, he could play a Zulu warrior maybe? would be great "colour blind" casting

[@jamietuggnut3312]

Cleopatra's husband screamed, "Keep my wife's name out cha f*cking mouth!" moments after he had slapped Jada Pinkett Smith across the face....

[@zilvertron]

Cleopatras husband was also her brother so there probably would be an entire family after her, if they could stop trying to kill eachother first for their thirst for power and might. But then its a matter of perspective since there were a few Ptolemies and Cleopatras before we get to the famous ones, and an unknown branch on the family tree from outside buying them some more time before the inbreeding would be to severe

[@DZ-oz8co]

Which one, she has three in total. 🤣

[@garym6315]

My elderly Mum and I had a talk about this just today. She has watched Dr Who since the 60s and was showing me the newspaper photos of Ncuti Gatwa in his pimp Doctor costume. She has never been racist in her life but she was baffled as to why the Doctor was a woman and then a black man. I also pointed put that the other person in the newspaper photo was a drag queen cast in the show. My mum is one of the kindest people you could ever meet but she just cant get her head around this woke casting. I tried to explain to her how it is being done everywhere now but as a normie she just cant understand why this is happening.

[@fifedogg511]

Your mum is based yo!!

[@chrissymc886]

God bless your mum. A dying generation sadly. The future is f'd.

[@xposetruth5681]

Be sure to tell your mum that it’s NOT what black and Latin people want to see. It is strictly the elites doing their ECG bidding making everything diverse environmental or whatever crap they keep trying to shove into every aspect of life as part of their New World order. None of us minorities ask for this nor do we want it.

[@ReinoldFZ]

She cannot understand due the overload of contradictory information telling her that blue is red. Also her generation grew up believing newspapers and TV media were somewhat trustworthy.

[@ViolentMessiah666]

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' " 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a damn how-to guide. The hypocrisy is a whole separate issue on top

[@DaveE7492]

Netflix also did this with Achilles.

[@maszkalman3676]

Nighilles?

[@teresawelter7530]

The argument that the raceswapping would help younger people identify more with a character is so phenomenally insane! So you're saying you can only identify with someone who looks exactly like you? Because skin colour and race are more important than any other trait this person might possess? Sounds bloody racist to me! Ever since I was a child, I admired the characters who spoke to me on an emotional level. Whether they were men, women, animals, black, white or blue.

[@lildinosaur8856]

*The funny thing is that actress is actually Hawaiian she’s just a light skin Hawaiian because it’s almost like we invented sunscreen and then shared it with Hawaiian people so they’re not as tan anymore* 😂

[@raebertgrayson5766]

The race-swapping for Anne to a black woman was particularly heinous! Did those who cast her --want-- to see a black woman's head cut off!? Did they even --think-- about that!? Guess not.

[@Artistically.Autistic]

My grandmother told me don't believe what they tell you in school or on Netflix, Cleopatra was yellow.

[@rohnkd4hct260]

You are exactly right. What you end up with “based on true events “ rather than historical events

[@GreenyX1]

Cleopatra had reddish hair. Few people know there is a Fresco portrait of her that survived her time.

[@jamesfoley6939]

You are correct, Az: these people are absolute window-lickers.

[@hanskneesun123]

2:18 Very well reasoned, the main issue I had was that they treat the audience as if they are stupid, if you know your history you'd realise that it would have been an outrage, King Henry would have been the laughing stock of Europe. How is anyone supposed to learn from history when you have studios actively erasing it?

[@SamtheBravesFan]

They haven't "erased" it. Yet. They're "changing" it. It will be erased when we have no access to proof that anything was different.

[@Alan_Edwards]

I agree with you AZ - it has gone beyond making simple artistic changes. Changes still need to make sense with the time period and geography. If you want to make a movie with a diverse cast...fine...make your own movie, don't bastardize an existing one. That is just the lazy way and disrespectful of the source material.

[@ProfessorThascales]

There is history and then there is hypocrisy.

[@Mitsu2040]

Imagine casting a twelve year old to play a father of four because he simply nailed the audition and was "the best actor for the role" and they didn't care about looks. One of his children will be played by a 28 year old because he just had that "charm" and was the "best one for the role"!!

[@anidiotwithacontroller7295]

I’m actually looking forward to seeing Jim Carrey play Martin Luther King though 😂

[@ryanwhite8085]

Christian Bale as Shaka Zulu! I want to see that lol

[@dansweet6793]

Yeah the diversity and inclusion seems to go in one direction. We don't get a Latino or Japanese or Native American Tinker Belle or Ariel it's always black actresses and actors getting rid of characters that were originally white. Oh and I forgot to mention we get rid of Uncle Ben's rice ,Aunt Jamima, the Lakeland butter Native American. They forgot to get rid of Mrs Butterworth and the Quaker Oats guy meanwhile the media pushes the narrative that white supremacy is all over the country and white man bad. I'm seeing a lot of hypocrisy.

[@eraser2727]

That flickering sign is driving me nuts

[@stevew8513]

I wonder if casting a black woman as Anne Boleyn wasn't just something to get the public frothed up, hoping that they would all tune in and watch. That kind of "there's no such thing as bad publicity" mentality. This kind of thing doesn't work, in this day and age we get the tiniest whiff of "modern audience" content and we instantly turn away. But producers think that a hate-watching public is better than no viewership. It's an insane waste of money.

[@HalfEye79]

I would bet, that, if a new film with a historical accurate looking person playing Anne Boleyn, they would say, we are whitewashing her, because there is a film, where she is black.

[@falcor200]

Remember black Achilles 😂 God it never ends

[@anthonyguidas2012]

I always knew the shoe would be on the other foot one day so I’m enjoying the reaction to the lilo and stitch casting

[@adamlowe1072]

Should have cast Lizzo as Queen of Egypt and called it Cleophatra

[@michaelreich4827]

The same people complaining about Lilo's sister also applaud the cast of "Hamilton". If you know, you know.

[@slaughterlord4190]

If they want black pharaos, they could make a movie over that one egyptian dynasty, the 25th dynastie out of 33 was from the kingdom of "Kush" modern day Sudan. I don't know much about them, but they reigned egypt for over 80 years ad you can see that their Statues and paintings were clearly black and not the normal darker skincolour from the more known egyptian paintings. Check them out yourselves

[@j4nk3n]

Nah they want to use prominent stories and events and just do lazy race swaps, why explore the actual interesting thousands of years of African folklore heritage and culture when you can use someone else's stuff right? Makes no sense

[@augustus_tiberius.]

You know it’s very probable that Nani from the original animated movie and the live action, have the same skin color but the original shows her with a tan, and this actress has gotten one yet.

[@fullstackweebdev]

'History is set in stone" Oh Az... not to Communists...

[@WASSERAN]

I'm not going to comment on the video's topic - there's nothing else to add. I am, however, going to comment on the video itself. The production quality is top notch - it is well-spoken, cohesive, structured, well-edited and has a pretty good flow that feels natural. Great job, Az - your videos have improved greatly in just the past month or so!

[@FreeFolkOfFandom]

Didn’t even know that Ann bolayan thing even came out

[@rvt_h3d]

this one will fade into obscurity as well

[@Xbalanque84]

This is officially a fetish at this point. Ideological or sexual, I can't tell which...

[@The_Judge300]

Imagine the outcry from these people if someone decided to make a documentary on Adolf Hitler and had a 6 foot tall black man playing him and then also portray Hitler as being a gay Jew. Or making a Martin L. King jr. documentary and having a Woody Allen lookalike actor playing his role. As a Norwegian knowing very much about our "viking" history, I just laughed at the silly black Jarl Haakon in the Vikings: Valhalla, but I couldn't care less as it is pure fiction where they just pick a few facts here and there as they see fit and usually get it wrong anyway. But making Cleopatra black in something that call some sort of documentary is very from being silly. It is totally disrespecting Egyptians, Greeks, Cleopatra and most of all, black people. They totally try to rewrite the history and they seem to have a sort of idea that all African's are black and totally disregard all the people that live and have lived north of Sahara. They don't understand the history at all and they don't understand why the Mediterranean people look more similar to each other than they look similar to sub-Saharan people. So, even if Cleopatra had been 100% Egyptian, she would still not be black. Far from it. There are plenty of proves showing that most of Cleopatra's genes by far, was Greek-Macedonian, and her family for many generations were so obsessed about keeping their bloodline "pure", that they did an insane degree of inbreeding over many generations to keep it "pure". They did mix in a bit of Persian blood and that was most likely because of political reasons and that person was clearly not black either. There is one unclear family member(grandmother) that historians suspect was a concubine, even if this has not been proven, but considering the fact that they were so obsessed about keeping it "pure" and Greek/Greek-Macedonian and that there were very many Greek/Greek-Macedonian people living in Alexandria at that time, it is highly unlikely that this concubine was not Greek/Greek-Macedonian. Most likely she was even from at least upper class, if not some sort of aristocrat as this was the most typical concubines at that time. And there is no way that this family would accept a half black "bastard" to become a ruler of their dynasty. And when you consider how racist and elitist the people of Rome were at that time and how quick they were to point out facts and rumours about people they didn't like, they would for sure point it out if they thought that Cleopatra had any sort of "black genes" in her or that her grandmother was a black concubine/slave. The romans wrote a lot of terrible "facts" and rumours about Cleopatra to discredit her and specially did it after her death, but they never mentioned or even left a very small hint about Cleopatra having even the tiniest drop of "black genes/blood" and that in reality tells us all we need to know about this matter. And I am not even mentioning other things they totally portray wrong about Cleopatra in this nonsense "documentary". I also think this does black people a huge disservice. It give racists and other haters fuel for their bonfire. "Black people clearly have no black people in history to be proud of, so they need to rewrite history and blackwash it to make it look like they have" And this is not the case at all, but the people "blackwashing" history for sure make it look like it is. Instead of making documentaries about great black men and women that have lived that might not be so publicly known, they instead "blackwash" well known historical people that clearly were not black. Where is the logic behind that? What IQ do these people thinking that is a good idea have? How stupid do they think people are? How stupid and uneducated do they think other black people are? Do they really think that since Jada Pinkett Smith says it, then black people will believe it? I think they have zero respect for Egyptian people. I think they have zero respect for Greek people. I think they have zero respect for Cleopatra. I think they have zero respect for their customers. And worst of all. I think they have zero respect for black people. Sorry to all bothered to read this for making this long essay

[@brianmuttonchoppotts3438]

Is it just me or does az's camera quality improved significantly this week looks amazing 😲

[@joynay8405]

It's just like the Woman king. Egyptian scalors are also suing the movie and Netflix.

[@TheBelieveit1]

Can you imagine for a moment if a casting director for say a Black Panther movie or better still a Martin Luther King Jr. Docudrama did their casting as "color blind" and it just so happened that the lead role went to a pasty white ginger man? I mean given how Hollywood and comics these days seem to have it out for red heads and replacing them with black actors and actresses I think it would be quite fitting for a ginger MLK don't you? Any directors or writers here wanna get on that? Cause boy the media and Twitter responses will be night and day

[@YoJimBoHugabaJoe]

They also complained that the cutie who played jasmine in the alladin remake wasnt indian enough

[@carried9130]

Didn't watch the Anne Boleyn show and won't watch this either so the actress doesn't need to worry about that! I appreciate you covering it Az. You are so correct in your coverage.

[@ReinoldFZ]

Cannot wait for Michelle Pfeiffer interpreting Jada Pinkett.

[@octapusxft]

Never harass these people, just do what Merlin did to Mab and turn away and let them fade into obscurity while screaming "look at me!!!!"

[@vhaunwhyte7253]

can’t wait for the winston churchill documentary played by idris elba

[@rickwj324]

I heard they are casting Dylan Mulvaney as Oprah Winfrey in a new biopic about Ms. Winfrey! Stunning and Brave casting for sure!!

[@icedriver2207]

Dylan just wants the Golden toilet

[@xposetruth5681]

That would be freaking hilarious to see!

[@namelesswhocares8648]

The real question is Why always make existing characters black? Why not hindu? Chinese? Indian? Etc?!?

[@mattiasilva1705]

People should start realizing that bad casting is bad. No matter if the actor has ancestry fitting to the role, or if they are playing a character which identity """may""" be on debate etc.. Just give us good casting instead, because a good casting know how to pay respect to the characters and the culture involved regardless, because they choice is done without malice or political facades.

[@alexfriedman918]

Academy Award for 2024 Best Picture goes to … an updated remake of Schindler’s List with racially diverse Nazi camp guards, and the Auschwitz Commandant recast as Whoopsie Goldberg.

[@davidc3040]

hope disney gets the girl casted for nani a good tan and maybe some hair dye, she just needs to be a few shades darker to match the actress casted for lilo, other than that shes a fine choice imo

[@B-A-L]

I would have loved to see Channel 5 do a sequel to Anne Boleyn about her ginger daughter Elizabeth being portrayed by an anagram!