Another fantasy film wants to be "historically accurate" when it comes to racial dynamics

[britrawick]

#FantasticBeasts producer responds to diversity criticism for the first time: https://t.co/0XTVqvMfwn pic.twitter.com/0IKwFynAxg
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) November 5, 2015
-In an ironic twist for a story about acceptance, all the leads are white

Comments

[p_drunkwriting]

It's 2015. It's enough.

It's specially ridiculous to play that excuse when it comes to fantasy, as always. Shut up or just admit you're racist.

[tequila]

M F T E

[derevko]

mte

[celtic_thistle]

mte, idg this thinking that fantasy can't/doesn't include any POC. It's so stupid.

[truest_x]

LOL this.
It's the magic fantasy genre. I'm so tired of these excuses.

[crystalfairie]

Hence the Lavender Brown issue.

[p_drunkwriting]

Oh god, don't even remind me. The transparency of that decision was so clear that it's actually maddening.

[heavenlyrains]

She was played by a black actress until she became Ron's love interest and became white.

[proxy]

ugh

[genjinjur]

now THAT's magic!

[heavenlyrains]

lol i almost wrote she magically became white but i didn't want people to think it was a spell that did it.

[leaf_collector]

wtffff

[crystalfairie]

Oh god. It was seriously one of the WORST things ever. For the first three films, Lavender was a POC. It was made VERY clear who she was. Suddenly, for 7 and 8, she was played by Jessie Camp, who is very MUCH Caucasian.

[celtic_thistle]

One of the chief reasons I dislike the movies.

[meow_tan]

While its true that racism likely influenced that decision, the movies were tossed around between so many different directors, its likely that they just pilled random names from the books and assigned them to extras in the movie. then, not caring about consistency, when lavender became important, she was casted as white.