On one hand if the stories he wants to tell require a black lead I have no problem with it. Certain stories require certain people as the lead. A historical drama about vikings requires a white lead, for example.
On the other hand this statement sure as hell wouldn't fly if the races were reversed. Plus, the whole 'bland white guy' narrative is reductive and absolute bullshit. This idea that adding 'diversity' automatically makes things better rather than judging a movie on its own merits is pure nonsense. Kill Bill and Alien featured women as action leads and they were brilliant. But we're supposed to applaud a mediocre superhero movie like Captain Marvel purely because the lead is a woman? The idea that Black Panther was the first black superhero to get a major motion picture when Wesley Snipes did it literally twenty years ago with Blade? The whole thing is ridiculous.
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