Tuesday, November 30, 2010

“Dark Motives?”

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hobbit-fires-casting-director-for-thinking-onl,48362/

A casting director has been fired from The Hobbit after specifically asking for actors with "light skin tones." Things had already become tense when he had suggested that the wizards should elect a Grand Wizard.

To be more sensitive, the role of Gandalf the Grey will now go to an actor who is half white and half black.

Seriously though, does ‘Bilbo Baggins’ sound like the name of a white dude?

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