Netflix and black male white female couples.

Why does it make sense to use a white actor in yellowface (via prosthetic eyelids) speaking with a British accent to play a Korean native of Neo-Seoul named Hae-Joo Chang? I thought it was weird. It wasn't even entirely clear to me he was supposed to be a native Korean until his name was mentioned which forced me to take a closer look at how they did up his eyelids. Until that point I assumed he was a British expat bizarrely trying to blend in by combing his hair straight to look more native. It also wasn't just Sturgess. Hugo Weaving and James D'Arcy were also cast as Asians. FTR, I'm not accusing the Wachowski brothers of racism or anything like that. I understand the book linked the characters by having them share a common birthmark so I'm aware they were trying to make things a little easier to follow. But seriously, was it? I thought it could have been less confusing and just as effective if they just cast ethnic Asians playing Asians and stuck to the book's way of handling it instead of using white actors with tweaked eyelids which I found comically distracting. Instead they used the birthmark to indicate the good guy in every reincarnation which just made it MORE confusing.

To be clear there can be many legit reasons for screenwriters and casting to change up the race of how a character was originally written in a work of fiction. Maybe an ethnic minority actor was the best guy that auditioned for the role, had the best chemistry with the other actors, I can think of a dozen real reasons that have nothing to do with race and everything to do with merit. Hunger Games takes place in a setting centuries in the future where the author envisioned much more mixed races. The protagonist wasn't written with any of today's racial groupings in mind, but she was written as having a dark olive skin tone and straight black hair, which implies mixed race at odds with how Jennifer Lawrence looks.

That's relevant to the point I was making since the hangup of the poster I was responding to was with the skin tone being changed from white to black of a fictional work of Orient Express. I was trying to point out directors do this far more often in the other direction so there's really no basis for his complaint. What I take issue with is the idea that there is any kind of coordinated and collaborative PC diversification agenda when the empirical stats and Annenberg studies exposes that idea to be total nonsense. Minorities are grossly underrepresented in Hollywood compared to present day US demographics.

One point I do want to address is your concluding paragraph:

"If this is truly a new trend (white women and black men) then I wouldn't be surprised as it may just be another way to marginalize white males..And yeah, I have noticed that trend lately..
They are increasingly shown as weaker or more often evil or the villain ...or even discarded for a female gender."

Are you serious? What do you mean "marginalizing white males"? Do you mean as opposed to always casting the minorities as the the weaker character or villains in order to marginalize minorities?

Here's the thing, in any story there's always going to a hero and villain. In an increasingly mixed race multicultural society that America is today there is going to be an increasingly greater representation of minorities cast as the protagonists. But you're still talking about a tiny fraction of the number of releases where minorities are for the first time being represented in any in protagonist roles to any significant degree which is still in gross disproportion less than their demographic representation in our society. The Annenberg study makes this crystal clear.

So I say this with no disrespect, but if you really think that "it's another way to marginalize white males" I urge you to examine your confirmation bias because it just dosen't hold up in light of the empirical facts. Hollywood casts white protagonists an OVERWHELMING majority of the time, and at a much higher rate than the 66% Caucasian whites make up of the US ethnic demographic.

If this is truly a new trend (white women and black men) then I wouldn't be surprised as it may just be another way to marginalize white males..And yeah, I have noticed that trend lately..

They are increasingly shown as weaker or more often evil or the villain ...or even discarded for a female gender.