A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.
Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.
Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.
I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.
Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.
I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.