[Rockingham]

Using non-white actors makes little sense for a story that was written by an Englishman for an English audience, with references to most of the characters in his books as white. Can you imagine Roots made with white actors in blackface makeup because those actors are supposedly the best actors available? Or perhaps even worse, if almost all the actors were white and not in blackface makeup?

[TexasFreeper2009]

I understand what you are saying.. but like I said, your view is skewed by your environment, and what you consider “normal”.

If a Korean or Indian film maker where doing shakespere they would use Korean or Indian actors usually.

The same way Hollywood used white men in makeup to play Indians or Asians in old movies.

I have been watching a lot of Bollywood and Korean-made films recently and it what I am trying to explain suddenly accured to me.