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Re: (Possible Spoilers Re Star Wars Episode VIII)

[(Anonymous)]

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Yup. It's messed up that unless a character is specifically written as being a POC or queer or disabled or trans or any other minority, they're automatically assumed to be straight white cis and able-bodied by the Hollywood system. And if they are written as part of a minority, too often that identity is the sole factor of their characterisation and personality. :(

Re: (Possible Spoilers Re Star Wars Episode VIII)

[(Anonymous)]

Is it true that Finn was originally going to be white/they were only auditioning white guys for him until John Boyega came along?

Re: (Possible Spoilers Re Star Wars Episode VIII)

[(Anonymous)]

I think they just made it nonspecified casting and he got the part.

Re: (Possible Spoilers Re Star Wars Episode VIII)

[(Anonymous)]

That's not what I heard on Black Men Can't Jump