Dev Patel to play David Copperfield.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Goonerhater said:

keep fishing something will have a go before long

Don't have any fishing tackle.

randy andy

killerandflash

My only issue with colour blind casting is that while I agree that non white actors need positive discrimination more than the other way round, it can affect your belief of the characters, hence it isn't generally done the other way round.

For example there was a Doctor Who episode last year set in 1948 partition India, dealing with the divide between the Hindu and Muslim communities. If they had used a white (and white looking) actor to play one of these "locals" it would have looked completely weird and massively distracted from the story.

Similarly if the BBC or Netflix did a major drama about Ming era China, I would expect the actors to be all Chinese unless playing a non Chinese character. 

i_b_b_o_r_g

You rascals

hoof_it_up_to_benty

killerandflash said:

My only issue with colour blind casting is that while I agree that non white actors need positive discrimination more than the other way round, it can affect your belief of the characters, hence it isn't generally done the other way round.

For example there was a Doctor Who episode last year set in 1948 partition India, dealing with the divide between the Hindu and Muslim communities. If they had used a white (and white looking) actor to play one of these "locals" it would have looked completely weird and massively distracted from the story.

Similarly if the BBC or Netflix did a major drama about Ming era China, I would expect the actors to be all Chinese unless playing a non Chinese character. 

There didn't seem to be much of an issue in the past with white actors 'blacking' up and disabled characters not being played by disabled actors. I would love to have seen a disabled actor get the lead role in 'My Left foot'.

In the case of Dickens and the London of the time it was ethnically diverse so personally it won't jar for me seeing Dev Patel in the role.

Hopefully the film will do well.

seth plum

Jean-Claude Van Damme is to play magician Paul Daniels in Martin Scorsese's new biopic, with Susan Boyle playing Debbie Magee his long term lover, assistant, and wife, as co-star.

killerandflash

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

killerandflash said:

My only issue with colour blind casting is that while I agree that non white actors need positive discrimination more than the other way round, it can affect your belief of the characters, hence it isn't generally done the other way round.

For example there was a Doctor Who episode last year set in 1948 partition India, dealing with the divide between the Hindu and Muslim communities. If they had used a white (and white looking) actor to play one of these "locals" it would have looked completely weird and massively distracted from the story.

Similarly if the BBC or Netflix did a major drama about Ming era China, I would expect the actors to be all Chinese unless playing a non Chinese character. 

There didn't seem to be much of an issue in the past with white actors 'blacking' up and disabled characters not being played by disabled actors. I would love to have seen a disabled actor get the lead role in 'My Left foot'.

In the case of Dickens and the London of the time it was ethnically diverse so personally it won't jar for me seeing Dev Patel in the role.

Hopefully the film will do well.

Apart from the fact that this happened a long time ago, by "blacking up" it was an admission that visually it wouldn't work with a white actor playing it as a white actor.

I've no problem with Dev Patel in the role - I recently saw the recent New Vic production of Death of a Salesman with a largely black cast - just noting that it can sometimes affect the "realism" of the scenario. For example the recent ITV drama Beecham House, white people play white people and Indians play Indians, it would have been really odd with a colour blind cast

Chunes

You were the first person to suggest race as being the problem in that thread, @hoof_it_up_to_benty .............

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Chunes said:

You were the first person to suggest race race as being the problem in that thread, @hoof_it_up_to_benty .............

What's 'race race'?

cafcdave123

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Chunes said:

You were the first person to suggest race race as being the problem in that thread, @hoof_it_up_to_benty .............

What's 'race race'?

It’s where you get all the different races that turn up to auditions to race for the part

Chunes

Avoiding the point at all costs, for the third time

Covered End

Great news, I've declared myself officially not racist.
I couldn't even work out why the question had been asked, until it became clearer reading the thread

smudge7946

I'm confused. 

Is this a biopic of the magician 
Or
A Dickens remake? 

soapy_jones

seth plum said:

Jean-Claude Van Damme is to play magician Paul Daniels in Martin Scorsese's new biopic, with Susan Boyle playing Debbie Magee his long term lover, assistant, and wife, as co-star.

There is very little in that casting that i can agree with.  May i be the first yo object to it?

se9addick

smudge7946 said:

I'm confused. 

Is this a biopic of the magician 
Or
A Dickens remake? 

Dickens 

IdleHans

seth plum said:

Jean-Claude Van Damme is to play magician Paul Daniels in Martin Scorsese's new biopic, with Susan Boyle playing Debbie Magee his long term lover, assistant, and wife, as co-star.

This whole post fails because you've omitted the obligatory 'the lovely' before Debbie Mcgee