Let me repeat myself: there is no such thing as “overrepresentation”. There isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a moral or legal law that states that TV and movie producers have to follow census data strictly in their casting. That would be stupid.
You’re thinking about “documentaries”. There’s this whole other universe of films commonly referred to as “fiction”. Or are you upset that Hobbits are overrepresented in The Lord of the Rings, blue aliens in Avatar and people who can fly in Superman, too? Maybe there’s too many British people in Downton Abbey and too few Vietnamese in West Side Story?
Let me repeat myself: there is no such thing as “overrepresentation”. There isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a moral or legal law that states that TV and movie producers have to follow census data strictly in their casting. That would be stupid.
It seems to me that films are supposed to be as close to reality as possible to be credible.
You’re thinking about “documentaries”. There’s this whole other universe of films commonly referred to as “fiction”. Or are you upset that Hobbits are overrepresented in The Lord of the Rings, blue aliens in Avatar and people who can fly in Superman, too? Maybe there’s too many British people in Downton Abbey and too few Vietnamese in West Side Story?