| I realize that Porgy & Bess isn't a good example because for the story to work we can't think they'd have had the option of what opportunity or privilege might have come to those characters from passing as white to white people, i'm just saying that that is a show where their race is also important to the story, and i could see a scenario where a director casts a bi-racial actor who happens to pass as white and justify it with them being bi-racial and the possibility that that could have been in the character's background. I think that director would be wrong, but I could still imagine it happening. |
