:D:D:D:D:D:D:D You just want to piss off @Tony254 for the 3rd day running in the new year?!
Wacha leo nisaidie Wakandans.
In all fairness the author of this article is seriously racist. And he is hiding behind nice English to cover his outright bias and racism.
Why did he choose African actors in particular?! Hio tayari ni sign number one of his intentions.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of major TV shows and films produced every single year and yet black people or Africans for that matter barely get even 1% of the acting roles. It’s probably less than 1%.
Hollywood is so whitewashed it’s ridiculous.
And if we go back in time all the black roles in the 1920s through to the 1960s were often played by white guys in black face.
For example in 1965 English actor Sir Laurence Olivier below played the role of Othello while in black face :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96DlM3N5KQ
And he was nominated for an Oscar for that role.
Native American, Mexican and Arab roles were also played by white guys in some brown paint with wigs and bushy eye brows.
Rock Hudson a mzungu plays a native American below :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WxZNTjvUqU
Even Chinese roles were played by mzungus in buck teeth e.g Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
In short the list is endless. You even have fellows like Keanu Reeves today playing a Japanese role in the Matrix. And Christian Bale played the role of Moses recently.
White Hollywood stole Kung Fu and martial arts from China… the likes of Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Van Damme, Cynthia Rothrock quickly replaced Bruce Lee.
They even renamed Kung Fu to martial arts to steal the art form.
So today for an African to play a mythic Greek hero mimi naonelea hio ni maendeleo kamili. Hollywood giving a half hearted, belated apology to minorities.