None of the previous Spike Lee films has a white leading man role.
I’ve seen all of them except two:
“The Answer”..
This short film, made during his time at NYU’s film school, challenging D.W. Griffith’s”The Birth of a Nation”.
and
“Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads”. Lee’s thesis film, which he completed as part of his Master of Fine Arts degree at NYU.
Black roles.
People who know Spike Lee won’t know Chalamet, and vice versa. Reminds me of when McCartney and Kanye did a duo years ago; one of my adult students told about how he was watching the video with his son, the son knew Kanye but didn’t know the old guy, while he knew Paul but didn’t know the young guy.