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Does it matter if Hannibal is played by a black man?

16 December 2023

5:30 PM

16 December 2023

5:30 PM

It is becoming a familiar conundrum: whether to employ actors who match the ethnicity of the person they are portraying. Helen Mirren made the mistake of playing Golda Meir in a truly dreadful new film. The real mistake there was not the use of a non-Jewish actress, as some have complained, but the appalling quality of the script and production.

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