My point is that the general gist is that Latina Lily was replaced by white Lily thus the show has no POC.
That’s not the general gist at all. People are upset that Lily grew into a white woman. No one has ever said that the show has no POC. Obviously they do. It’s how they TREAT THEM that’s the problem.
I posed this question the other day but is it possible that when the casting department cast Agnes, the description they were given was for Mal’s long lost daughter rather than Lily so they looked for someone who looked like Mal’s actress. Then when they realise it was supposed to be the same person, they did there best to make Agnes look like young Lily?
This bothers me because you’re making a lot of conjectures with no evidence. A baby that has never spoken, only been seen once or twice, and has absoltuely no role to play is a totally different situation than the Anti Savior, best friend of the Savior, daughter of the main guest villain, someone who has spoken, hand an entire centric with the main character, and was teased to the hilt that she would be returning. You keep trying to pass the buck, as it were, but there was no break down in communication. A and E knew exactly who Lily was when they case the younger version. They knew she was Mal’s daughter and the Anti Savior. They wanted someone who looked like Lana Parillia in order to drive home the Emma/Regina and Emma/Lily parallels in that particular episode. A and E TOLD the casting department to get someone who resembled Regina in order for that episodes thesis of relationships to make sense. In other words, the casting department went into casting adult Lily knowing that they had cast someone with Latina heritage for her younger self. In order to compensate, they had to change Agnes Brukner’s look to make it “work.”