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MGD109 t1_jbqj0xx wrote

Reply to comment by mmm126 in Elizabeth Banks Leads Voice Cast Of ‘The Flintstones’ Animated Series ‘Bedrock’ As Comedy Scores Pilot Presentation At Fox by MarvelsGrantMan136

I mean it depends what you mean, parts of the Neolithic age was technically.

Of course due to lack of safe travel in those days and scarcity of resources, you could cross from the stone age into the bronze age and back again, over a span of maybe two hundred miles.

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Maybe_In_Time t1_jbqhiyp wrote

Reply to comment by TheD0rkKnight in Elizabeth Banks Leads Voice Cast Of ‘The Flintstones’ Animated Series ‘Bedrock’ As Comedy Scores Pilot Presentation At Fox by MarvelsGrantMan136

Because you're the 10th person commenting something like this every. single. time someone's character (whose race is NOT important to the character itself) is cast this way.

Yet all of you always 'innocently' start with, "not that it bothers me or anything...'.

Yes. It clearly does, otherwise why bring it up? When minorities and POC are told to 'stick' to our 'own' characters, those characters are either never brought to live-action/ production anyways, or they're voiced by a white person which defeats the purpose of telling us to find 'our own'.

Bane in The Dark Knight Rises? Makes sense to cast a white British dude with an Irish accent to play the Panamanian. Or John Voight in Anaconda.

Natalie Woods played the Puerto Rican lead in West Side Story, yet the actual latina was demoted up being the sidekick. Scarlet Johansson in Ghost In The Shell? Emma Stone playing an Asian lead? So whose role CAN minorities play?

This is where the frustration comes from - decades of having scraps thrown at animators, writers, and voice actors, then when they see a series or character is famous, they'll cash in with celebrities instead of established voice actors. Peter Dinklage was an embarrassing decision by Bungie - ended up having to replace him with a voice actor who is already doing this for a living.

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