[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Surely they're entirely separate issues though? That includes real people and race centred storylines.

Of course a white guy can't play MLK because he was a real person and was black.
The same as a white actor couldn't play Tibbs because as far as I remember, the story relied on him being black?

Whereas Bond is a fictional character in a setting/story that does not rely on him being specifically black or white.

Not to mention the films over the last 50 years have strayed so far from the original source material that "stick to the novel" no longer makes sense as a reason.

so why not make him an 8 year old japanese girl. it makes no difference to you i guess.

so sick of the hypocrisy, the same people screaming about "appropriation of black culture" are the same people screaming "why can't bond be black???"