Reply To: The whitewashing of Lily

[PriceofMagic]

You edited your post whilst I was responding to your original so I’ll also respond to your edit.

I actually really dislike this term. How is it any less offensive than another similar sounding outdated term? It seems better and more correct to say ethnically diverse. While the complaint that ethnically diverse actors only appear in supporting roles only to disappear again into the mist, their appearance at least goes a ways to help round out the diversity. If there were no people from diverse backgrounds in supporting roles, it’d make the show’s track-record even worse. But that is what I’m saying: the role of of Adult Lily going to Agnes Bruckner, instead of a Latina, means one less ethnically diverse actress appearing in the show. It means one more woman of Eastern and Western European heritage getting the slot instead of a talented actress of Hispanic descent, which makes no sense, because the original casting of Young Lily was played by the talented Nicole Muñoz. Whether intended or not, that decision just shows a lack of sensitivity or awareness of these culturally relevant issues.

This actually makes more sense and I can see your point more clearly.

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?

The casting department have made mistakes before based on the info they were give. For example, Cinderella’s baby.