Update: Latest rumor shows casting for a white Ciri | Original: Netflix looking for non-white actress to play Ciri in the Witcher tv series

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

Runa216 said:

You really don't understand human nature at all, do you? The more the whiny fans who hate the idea of white roles being 'taken away' complain, the more the production company and the showrunners will dig their heels in just as a matter of principle. If they budge and go with a white actress now, then there will be controversy over 'the racists winning' (Just my conjecture, that would almost certainly be the narrative whether it's true or not.) But if they stick to their guns, then the vocal minority will once again just have an excuse to be hateful and spiteful and whiny. 

Again, we don't know if the reason for this was thematic, based on story, or meant as a sort of new way to tell the same story. We don't know and really shouldn't assume that their intentions were just to make more money by doing a diversity hire or as some 'sjw agenda'. And honestly, anyone who says something along the lines of 'the sjw agenda' as some sort of way to devaluing artistic or commercial decisions automatically loses all my respect (not that they care about what I think anyway). If you object to the idea of being more inclusive and are using the status quo to justify it, then you're not a good person. Simple as that. 

Whine about me being on my high horse all you want, history will prove me right. If you object to minorities getting roles or more diversity in the workplace regardless of what workplace it is based solely on some misguided adherence to tradition in lieu of the very real changes society has gone through over the past decades, you are exactly the kind of person that's holding back progress. 

And if you use 'sjw' as a pejorative in this context, then you lose all credibility. 

They might do that, but our only chance of stopping this is to protest now, if we wait there is no chance they will change their minds, once a "BAME" Ciri is cast they won't be able to get away with recasting without facing backlash from the opposite crowd. However, if they change their minds now, and open up the casting to white girls as well as "BAME" girls  (I really hate that term, BAME, it seems offensive to me to lump all non-white races together in a single group, like they're purposefully trying to trying to stir up controversy between whites and non-whites), then they can safely cast a white girl by saying that she was the best person who auditioned for the role, without stirring up controversy from the opposite crowd.

I assume this 2nd paragraph isn't aimed at me, because I never said any of that. I'm not against more diversity in movies/tv, what I'm against is changing the established race of characters just so they can check-off the diversity checkbox on their list. That kind of forced diversity does more harm than it does good, it comes off as a transparent attempt to pacify those that want more diversity in media. If Lauren and her creative team on this Witcher tv series really wanted more diversity on the cast, she would create some new characters who match lore established dark skinned races like the Zerrikanians, instead of changing the race of an established main character, which is exactly what she said she wouldn't do just a few months ago. 

I would bet that even if they don't specifically looks for a non-white for the rest of the cast they will probably have some or several non-white on the story without you knowing the background so you don't know from where they or their ancestors originally are so even if you have 10-20% of non-white in several parts of the cities on the series it wouldn't be a problem.