I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but there were black people in ancient Greece IRL. It's not even "woke," just historically accurate!
It isn't an issue any more than whether Odysseus had a hairy back or not or what colour hair he had. This entire topic is a nothing burger.
I hate the word "woke" in general after it deviated from it's intended cause (not by the ones that coined it of course).
However the right wing is very smart is disguising certain things that they pretend to champion and mask it as if they're doing people a favour. A big part of "woke" (even though they can't put it into words) is corporate pandering. Which I don't think the left cares for too much... but that can be stretched to mean anything to be fair. The thing is that some people can THINK they mean: shoving representation to only sell tickets but it can also fit under as hating minorities because they're taking over. It all fits into the same umbrella.
In any case, black people were in ancient Greece just as there were black cowboys. World was more diverse than some think.
SMH
We all know black people weren't invented until 2009 when Barack Obama was born
Fully grown, in a dastardly tan suit, which he used to hypnotise the masses into thinking he was an american born citizen.
But lo! The denizens of Facebook and 4chan have a totally legitimate copy of his Kenyan ~~broth~~ birth certificate, if only the sheeple would just listen to them!
What’s next, Cat Woman giving a black woman the role of Helen of Troy in an Elizabethan tragedy?
I'd watch it
Sadly you’ll need to travel to 1950s Paris to watch it performed on stage, but Eartha Kitt would’ve been amazing to see.
Those who make a fuss about about skin tone will never be happy. The binary world they imagine is not the real one. Nolan's choice was brilliant.
I do imagine Athena being more mature than Zendaya though, but we'll see. I've never actually seen her act.
Wait, are they seriously complaining about Zendaya being in it? She’s not exactly not-European-looking, is she?
Starring Will Neff as the Woker
What's next they're going to ban BatFace?
I feel like I hear this argument about casting from every side. If it's done one way it's woke and another way it's white washing. Like 95% of the time I couldn't care less. 5% of the time the casting is extremely distracting from the story which is what I care about. Like hypothetically if someone cast Hitler as an African, Indian, or Chinese person in an otherwise period correct film it would be super distracting. Similarly if someone cast like a white dude as Bruce Lee's character in like a remake of Enter the Dragon and like Kareem Abdul-Jabbars characters like with Peter Dinklage I would have a really tough time paying attention to the film like the original.
Casting most of the time isn't too sensitive for myself, but there are certain conditions where the casting kinda has to be a particular way for the story to work. Like if you have a film. That's supposed to be set in Bejing and everyone is Italian with a thick Italian accent it's just not happening for me.
I remain convinced all casting drama is, from day 1, viral marketing.
To state the obvious, it's not a worker doing that. It's Universal Studios.
To state the obvious, worker and woker have 2 different meanings.
Is the director not a worker?
Universal profits from the movies and shows written by people.
Some of these actors and directors do eventually amass a lot of wealth, but there's a surprising number of even known actors/directors that are not that wealthy.
There are even more unknown actors in particular living in an apartment with 12 roommates in LA.
It's kinda how the system works. Have thousands of lower tier actors trying to make it big and uplift a few to show it's possible. Then they can cast "no-name" actors and extras for an unlivible wage because you have to do this type of work for the chance to make it
