I’ve tried watching these wildly out of place actors but my brain simply rejects the idea outright. You DO NOT get used to seeing someone who simply, historically doesn’t even remotely belong there
It doesn’t work. After all, if they made a film about a 19th century novel about a tribe in some part of Africa and some characters who members of the tribe were white, you’d spend the whole film wondering how they got there and the significance of their presence.
Some thing with having black actors play what were obviously white characters in a white society: you’d wonder how they got there, why they were there, and what it meant.
If the entire play or film is done with an all-black cast, simply because, say, it’s being performed in a place with no white residents or actors, that obviously is not a problem. Suspension of belief is the whole thing with dramas.
But the dramatization of a novel set in an exclusively European environment where the presence of other races or non-Europeans would have had a reason and required an explanation cannot casually throw in those characters without raising distracting questions in the mind of the spectator.
Think of an entire black cast of characters in a film like “Pride & Prejudice”. It simply will not work.
How many African families were living in the age of Victoria England, looking to meet up with noble suiters? None! The premise is ridiculous but that won’t stop the Hollywood Woke crowd from producing such bilge (An African American lesbian James Bond, riiiiight).
Isn’t it a fictional book? I don’t see it as historical.