"Little Spider" Tom Holland (Tom Holland), announced in March that he would play the leading role in the London stage play "Romeo and Juliet", and the whole network was looking forward to it, because he has good looks, he is indeed very suitable for playing Romeo, but I didn't expect that when the heroine was announced, because of the "color", it caused a global uproar, and the director and team condemned a series of racist attacks against an actor in the play.
The stage version of Juliet is performed by British actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, a descendant of immigrants from the African country of Ghana, who majored in music at Oxford University and participated in the training program of the National Youth Theatre in England, and starred in the film series "Bad Education". Some people pointed out that Juliet in the original book was an Italian girl, and African-American girls were not suitable at all, and some netizens thought that "blackening" was no problem, but at least find a beautiful actress to play it, and constantly commented negatively on the heroine.
In recent years, casting has become popular to break the racial framework, but it often makes the audience think that it is too "politically correct". The Harry Potter stage play turned Hermione into a black man, and Disney's selection of "The Little Mermaid" starring black actress Hayley Bailey and "Snow White" starring Latina actress Rachel Zegler have all attracted a lot of negative reviews.