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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 1134365" data-attributes="member: 649">Unless the race/ethnicity of the character is somehow a key part of the character's persona, I don't care at all what actor plays a role. Drew Carey, for example, would make a terrible Kunta Kinte because race/ethnicity is a key concept for the character's persona. Catwoman's race/ethnicity, however, isn't part of her persona at all, so it doesn't matter in the least to me.Interestingly (to me), however, gender does matter. I wouldn't mind a Spider-Man movie with an Asian Peter Parker, for example, but I would be quite disappointed with Penny Parker being bitten by a radioactive spider and becoming the very same character as Spider-Man. (Note that a Martha Franklin Spider-Woman movie would be fine, as she's a completely different character.)Hmm. Double standard or some kind of root belief that gender is always a big part of persona while race/ethnicity need not be (though it certainly can be)? Interesting.</blockquote>