White people have no problem playing black characters.
Gods of Egypt (2016) – Gerard Butler, a white actor played Set an Egyptian god.
Stonewall (2015) – Jeremy Irvine, a white actor, played a “straight-acting” white American gay man who started the Stonewall riots. It was started by Marsha P. Johnson, a Black American trans woman.
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) – Sigourney Weaver, a white actress played Tuya, the wife of an Egyptian pharaoh, Sethi I.
World Trade Center (2006) – William Mapother, a White actor played Sgt Jason Thomas, a Black American.
A Mighty Heart (2007) – Angelina Jolie, a white actress played Marianne Pearl of Afro Cuban descent.
Cleopatra (1963) – Elizabeth Taylor, a white actress played Cleopatra, an Egyptian queen.
Did you know in Willy Wonka's and the "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" that originally the author, Roald Dahl made Charlie "a little black boy" ? And he also made the Oopma lumpas African pygmies ?
But when it went to screen made them white
Hollywood have pathological love of casting only the biggest, whitest names in acting, that’s par for the course.
Curious how Hollywood never seems to have trouble finding blk actors to play the bad guys. But when it comes to playing the hero, that is suddenly SO difficult. Denzel Washington and Will Smith, are the exception, not the rule.
And understand bar, Charlie Bucket, all black characters that were played by white actors were REAL LIFE people.
When it’s get;s to fictional charcters ? Then it’s pretty much white only
Superman is white.
Batman is white.
Spiderman is white.
Iron man is white
Ant man is white.
Aqua man is white.
Indiana Jones is white.
Han Solo is white.
Dorothy Gale was white
Ellen Ripley is white
The Joker is white
John McClane is white
Captain Kirk is white
Spock is white
Travis Bickle is white
Forrest Gump is white
The Terminator is white
Gandalf is white
Rocky Balboa is white
Captain America is white
Luke SkyWalker is white
Ace Ventura is white
Sarah Connor is white
Wolverine is white
Harry Potter is white
Maximus is white
Homer Simpson is white
Barbie is white
Popeye is white
Tarzan is white
Hulk is white
Wonder woman is white
Judge Dredd is white
X-Men are white
Lex Luthor is white
Charlie Brown is white
Fred Flinstone is white
Beavis and Butthead are white
And you're up here crying about one black superhero ? The insecurity white men have towards a dominant, masculine black male superhero is unreal lol
And let's not even go there about a black James Bond....... No !!!
Idris is too old to play Bond. He'll be early 50's by the time the next Bond film comes out but to be honest the next Bond won't be black.
Having a black man running around saving the world, kicking ass, banging the hottest women of all races ? Na. Those old school white Italian Broccoli's who own the Bond franchise and white society in general are not gonna let that happen. They're gonna make sure images like that are not imprinted in the minds of people round the world.