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<blockquote data-quote="horacethegrey" data-source="post: 6837592" data-attributes="member: 40123"><p>A question from a <em>Dark Tower</em> noob. I've never read the series, so I'm no means an expert, but is Roland's race ever described explicitly in the books? All the art of the <em>Dark Tower </em>series that I've seen (book covers, comic books, etc.) have portrayed Roland Deschaine as a white caucasian. But now we have Idris Elba in the role and he's clearly black. So is this a case of casting an actor over his ability rather than his appearance, that they change a fictional character's racial makeup? Or was Roland's race really ambiguous in the first place so they were free to cast any actor in the role?</p><p></p><p>Now please don't think I'm a some sort of pendant over a fictional character's race. I think Idris Elba is a wonderful actor and I really didn't give a s**t when he was cast as Heimdall (described as the whitest god of the Aesir) in <em>Thor</em> (I know some racist a-holes objected to his casting, but who cares about them?). So I wonder if they same thing happened again here. I guess it speaks volumes of Idris Elba's strengths as an actor that they cast him in such an important role despite the race issue.</p><p></p><p>Just curious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="horacethegrey, post: 6837592, member: 40123"] A question from a [I]Dark Tower[/I] noob. I've never read the series, so I'm no means an expert, but is Roland's race ever described explicitly in the books? All the art of the [I]Dark Tower [/I]series that I've seen (book covers, comic books, etc.) have portrayed Roland Deschaine as a white caucasian. But now we have Idris Elba in the role and he's clearly black. So is this a case of casting an actor over his ability rather than his appearance, that they change a fictional character's racial makeup? Or was Roland's race really ambiguous in the first place so they were free to cast any actor in the role? Now please don't think I'm a some sort of pendant over a fictional character's race. I think Idris Elba is a wonderful actor and I really didn't give a s**t when he was cast as Heimdall (described as the whitest god of the Aesir) in [I]Thor[/I] (I know some racist a-holes objected to his casting, but who cares about them?). So I wonder if they same thing happened again here. I guess it speaks volumes of Idris Elba's strengths as an actor that they cast him in such an important role despite the race issue. Just curious. [/QUOTE]
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