re: Hollywood replacing white people in true stories with black actors

"Looks aside it's a fricking fictional story. People getting pissy about that is misplaced outrage."
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Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn't. If it is germane to the story, then it does matter. Example: in the Interview With The Vampire series, Louis de Point De Lac is now black. The original character was a white plantation owner who owned slaves. They conveniently forward the story to begin in the early 1900s to bury this fact.
If it James Bond, I could care less if it's a black or white actor. I know that James Bond as white, but his race is not germane to the story.