Zendaya is a actress and singer who is biracial. Since this has been announced, the actress has received lots of love and hate alike with her acceptance of this role. There have also been rumors that Miles Morales, a Spider man from an alternate universe who is black, will be taking on the big screen as Spider-Man this year instead of Peter Parker. Some people seem to have no problem with this and love the idea of switching things up. However, some people react negatively. I was sitting on the bus listening to this group of guys talk about the upcoming Spider man movie. They were discussing Jamie Foxx from a previous Spider-man movie. He played Electro in the Amazing Spider-Man 2. I got the gist of their conversation, which was that Jamie Foxx was a decent enough actor but didn't quite seem to fit the part. They also talked about Miles Morales as Spider-man and expressed their skepticism in this idea.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But I feel as if most of the time a minority is cast instead of a white person in a role that has typically been played by a white person, people are a little put off by the idea. People feel like an actress or actor doesn't fit the part because they don't look the part. I think this is because Hollywood has whitewashed film. Now there is a unspoken rule that the characters you have always watched and admired were meant to be played by non ethnic people. But that just isn't the case. In fact, when white people are cast for big movie roles outside their race, like Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell. There seems to be little controversy over it. Ghost in the shell is
a Japanese anime featuring a Japanese woman as the protagonist. Much like Doctor Strange, another movie where one of the main characters is Asian, but will be played by someone white.
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