Did the film "Cats" whitewash their black lead Francesca Hayward?

[jemgirl90]

The trailer for 'Cats' has people asking why you can't tell the film's lead, Francesca Hayward, is black https://t.co/hvuzqA07lr pic.twitter.com/HU3AZuZvAd

- Yahoo Lifestyle (@yahoolifestyle) July 19, 2019

- The trailer for "Cats" came out yesterday.. As many spoke of the cgi fur, others asked about lead Francesca Hayward's apearance.

- Hayward was

Comments

[cirila]

this is fucking stupid

[ellietd]

I hate this

[ellietd]

Really? Cat racism?

[patoplastico]

Just googled her and she looks the same as in that freakish furry abomination?
https://thevampireswife.com/blogs/stuff/francesca-hayward-sheer-beauty-sheer-grace

[false_hate]

Agreed, I can’t see any distortion of her features.

I also don’t understand the “bottom of her face is not featured” or coloring tweets.

[pikapika217]

oh, she's so pretty

[whatyawaiting4]

She’s really pretty and to be honest, I think her cat actually has a lot more resemblance to her than Taylor’s does?

[evillemmons]

[cymbelinefire]

I think they should have went with a more fantastical kind of look.

[dinkerd]

The main draws for the stage show are set/costume design and choreography, and you can't really do those things with CGI cats. Going for this weird cgi/physical set combo probably seemed like a good way of handling the stage show's visual appeal, and going with the cat/human hybrids probably seemed like a good way of keeping the dance aspect of the stage show.

A more competent director would've realised these things would never actually work on screen and do something like regular cgi cats, but Tom Hooper has already proven himself to be incapable of properly adapting stage musicals to the screen with Les Miserables. The man doesn't know what to keep and what to scrap from the source material, nor how to find cinematic ways of recreating specific theatrical moments without it getting weird.

[mila_s_garden]

I guess the only good thing Tom Hooper has given us is that gif where he looks fed up with Tarantino.

[ionadelfina]

The internet is really intent on wringing every ounce of nuance out of social justice issues.

[theemetmelk]

Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose to make people tired of "crazy SJWs"

[ionadelfina]

I think they're just dumb people who don't truly understand why issues like whitewashing are harmful to communities of color but still want to seem enlightened so they try to make non-issues like this into something to get points.

[xdecadentx]

This is what I think most of the time, like the media picks up on things almost to act like every criticism is irrational.

[rexilla]

I thought that cat was Carly Rae Jepsen

[nork_ftw]

Don’t do that lol

[svexsal]

I fucking did too!

[andisprohi]

CAT NIP FOR ONE!