The author of the books, Rick Riordan, said in the very beggining, when they were announcing the auditions to Percy that they were looking for a good actor who could represent the personality of the character, they weren't looking for any specific race.
I don't see you complaining about Grover... he's a redhead, that in the official illustrations of the Demigod Diaries is also white, while in the TV show he's not like that.
Besides, it's not like they're changing a classical figure or smth with the only justification of being inclusive. it's a teen book collection, where they put Annabeth black bc they liked the actress, would you like more a shitty actor, that would be physicality like in the books, someone who couldn't play Annaneth as well as Leah did?
I would also had loved seeing them like in the books, a Percy with brown hair, blonde of the gray eyes Annabeth, and many other things... but they were not being racist just bc they didn't do that.
they're not being racist, grow up bro.
So we get downgrade from Alexandria Daddario from the movies to this? I just hate it when it happens
@nephatiu the 1960ies have called and they want their Jim Crow-era racism back.
Seriously. How are the looks of Annabeth relevant to her character? The writer of the books - who is also co-writing this series - apparently doesn't think blonde vs brunette, white vs black matters a whole lot to the character of Annabeth. So why do you?
Shout by Nico di AngeloBlockedParent2023-12-21T18:47:35Z
Again blackfacing Annabeth.
You know how fun it is to recognize a character in advance cause you read the books? Like Dionysos and others...
But then there's Annabeth: tall, blonde,....
She's a fucking small brunette here just to cast a Black person in it...
When will people finally learn that replacing anu character with another etnicity for the sakebof having this etnicity is also so fucking terribly racist!
This shit is so racist.