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shikamaru317 on 20 June 2023
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Soundwave said:

Hollywood has been white washing parts for 70 years, so I'm not going to get bent out of shape over there being a black Little Mermaid (the actress was fine in the role anyway) or a black Nick Fury (Sam Jackson is great in the role) when you've had white people playing black parts (in black face), Asian parts, Middle Eastern parts, etc. etc. for decades prior. And this is not even like "well that happened in the 60s and 70s" ... this was happening as recently as Jake Gyllenhall playing the Prince of Persia and Emma Stone being cast as an Asian woman not that long ago. 

The demographics of North America and Europe are very different from 40-50 years ago. If anything Latino people should complain that they are underrepresented in movies and TV shows. For box office the Latino audience is the no.1 movie going demographic in the US, for example the Super Mario movie, Latino audiences were the no.1 audience for that movie. If those people want to ask where is their representation, it's fair IMO, Hollywood still has major problems putting a Latino actor in a lead role.

Eh, I can think of several recent movies with Latino/Latina actor/actress main characters, including Coco (Anthony Gonzalez), Encanto (Stepanie Beatriz), The Book of Life (Diego Luna), Vivo (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ynairaly Simo as co-leads), Alita Battle Angel (Rosa Salazar), and the upcoming DC movie Blue Beetle (Xolo Maridueña) among them. You've also got Zoe Saldana appearing quite often in Hollywood blockbusters these days, from JJ Abram's Star Trek trilogy as Uhura, to the MCU as Gamora, to the Avatar series as Neytiri, so many blockbusters in fact that she is now the #2 grossing actress in Hollywood behind only Scarlett Johannsen, and #4 on the combined actor/actress grossing chart behind only 2 men, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr. Are the levels of Latino/Latina leads equal to white leads? No, but they have definitely risen considerably over the last decade or so. Hollywood is definitely getting there with their Latino/Latina representation, another decade and you probably will see about as many Latino/Latina leads as white leads.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 20 June 2023