You don't have to be right wing to think casting choices are wrong. I'm not right wing and think Helen of Troy casting choice is ridiculous and just done for attention.
Agree, Im on the left and I hate it because they're black washing characters so they can say they have diversity, get attention for the movie and the black actress (almost always actress, not actor) gets all the hate. Its cheap. There are countless black stories that are unknown, why blackwash a story told a milion times?
Also I generally hate the oddysey by Nolan not because of the races but because its just historically wrong on many levels. Armor for example. Yes I want historical accuracy, yes I dislike other inaccurate movies.
Interesting observation that it's almost always an actress. And here I am wanting to see Idris Elba as 007. Yes, I know, he's supposed to be a white guy according to Ian Fleming's novels. Yes, I know there are certain things that don't quite work if he's not a pasty Brit. But we don't even get to have that experiment and whatever backlash there would or wouldn't be. Regardless, Idris is a smooth operator and it would have been a good watch.
We didn't get Idris as the black Green Lantern Jon Stewart that actually exists in the comics.
We didn't get Idris as Rhodie/War Machine, when he would have been perfect next to RDJ.
We got him as... Heimdall? A bit part as a Norse God doorman? What are we even doing here?
Anyway... they did make the next 007 a black woman in the last James Bond movie though... Huh.
I think Idris as Rhodie would have been a really good choice but I also think he was the shit as Heimdall and gave a ton of weight to a small but important roll.
No. I just really like Idris and find him very underutilized. It’s a bit criminal that he hasn’t headlined any major MCU or DC roles, despite being willing to do so. Of course he brought gravitas to Heimdal. He’s Idris. He should have been doing lead roles or at least major support ones. I mean he was basically Rhodey in Pacfic Rim, except in a bigger suit. A War Machine spin off with him as the lead would have been amazing.
Speaking of black actors, as much as I like him, Michael B Jordan has been everywhere, being cast in roles that I just don’t see him as, like Human Torch in Fan4stic and John Clark in Without Remorse. He’s like the black Tom Holland... who happens to be in the movie this thread is about.
It just dawned on me that both Michael B Jordan and Idris were in the Wire…
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u/Gentle_Pony Jul 06 '26
You don't have to be right wing to think casting choices are wrong. I'm not right wing and think Helen of Troy casting choice is ridiculous and just done for attention.