| Cyran said: The goal is equal oppuntunity for everyone and let the best actor/actress get the role. The issue is how do we reach that point. For example if a certain role type have histroically always been played by a white male there may be a councious or even a unconcious bias toward a white male actor even if there anouther actor that could play the role better. For that reason there sometime a need to put pressure on more diverse casting in order to give people a chance that they would not have otherwise. Over time the bias will be eliminated as people get use to all sorts of people in those roles and then you can just let who ever had the best audition get the job. It not always about raciest or sexism or some other type of prejudices. It just people tend to resist change so when they use to something always being a certain way there sometime a requirement to push that change. |
What type of role is historically played by a white male though? Other than that of a redneck or white supremacist or racist, I cannot think of one.
