Preacher TV series casting, thus far

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Timothy Olyphant

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He's kind of old to be Jesse, no?

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they could use it to explain some of Jesse's family's animosity.

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With Jesse's family being as it is, I don't think they will need anything else to explain his family issues.

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Meh

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It could really go either way. Pre-Arseface, he was supposed to be a grunge rocker type. But I don't think its all that important.

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I guess its an attempt to be edgy,

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You really need to add edginess to a story about professional rapists, heroin-addicted vampires and....



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....... a holy man's campaign to kill God?

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This one confuses me. Tulip is not black, or Filipino, or blackanese, or whatever Ruth Negga is. I hate when writers/producers do this; change the ethnicity and/or sex of a beloved character. I guess its an attempt to be edgy, but it always feels like pandering to me. At first glance, I hate this casting choice. But, I know nothing about Ruth Negga, and the roles she's played, so she may be perfect for this role.

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And I've never understood fanboys' craziness about a character's race. Who cares?

Is there whiteness inherent to the character? Does the character absolutely NEED to be white for some reason? No? Then who gives a frick.

shite, I've argued many times than James Bond doesn't NEED to be white. He just needs to be British.

I don't know anything about the comic or the show but this guy does not look like a bad arse.

Well maybe a bad arse barista.

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I don't know anything about the comic or the show but this guy does not look like a bad arse. Well maybe a bad arse barista.

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I get that vibe too. I guess he's supposed to have sex appeal for the ladies?

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And I've never understood fanboys' craziness about a character's race. Who cares?

Is there whiteness inherent to the character? Does the character absolutely NEED to be white for some reason? No? Then who gives a frick.

shite, I've argued many times than James Bond doesn't NEED to be white. He just needs to be British.

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Ok, this post made me want to chime in, as discussions regarding "why can't this character be something other than white" are ones that really irk me. Let's go with the easier of my two responses to this. In terms of comic book adaptations, the reason "fanboys" get so worked up over the race of a character changing is because comics are a visual medium. Let's think about "The Shawshank Redemption" for a second. The Morgan Freeman character of "Red" was a white Irish man in the original Stephen King story but made black in the film. Why is changing the character's race acceptable here? A short story is a non-visual medium. Aside from a one-line mention of Red's backstory, he becomes something of a formless character who exists mostly on feeling and emotion. But comics are a medium that has always been a melding between story and visual, and as such, longstanding fanboys know what a character is supposed to look like and when an adaptation shifts from that, it bothers those fans. In the case of Tulip in Preacher, Tulip is Tulip O'Hare. Her name is Irish, and her backstory of her and her father is one where he is portrayed as a "good ole' boy" who comes to see the error of seeing a girl as being just one way. Can this work with Tulip being black? Possibly. Hell, probably. Doesn't change the fact that I, as a fan of the comic, am not getting what I read about in the comic visually, and yeah, it irks me. Sorry. And to counter that it's only when adaptations are white made into black, when it was rumored that The Rock might play John Stewart Green Lantern, I was against that because as, though he is half black he looks closer to his Samoan heritage, I didn't feel he resembled John Stewart enough and that a fully black actor should get the role instead.

What really irks he, though, is the comment "Is there whiteness inherent to the character?" I hate this comment, as it makes being white nothing but a placeholder. People who are white encompass many diverse cultures, from Irish to Italian to German and so on. I find this comment insulting, as if my cultural background doesn't matter and can simply be replaced without a thought.

Look, I get that superhero movies, being populated with characters created when diversity wasn't a thing, have a tendency to be pretty lily white at times. But you know how to combat that? Bring in the diversity THAT ALREADY EXISTS! Adding Falcon to Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Having War Machine be a co-star in the Iron Man films. The idea of using John Stewart GL in the Justice League movie. Also, the fact that the general public doesn't know these characters more often than not means the studios could use lesser known characters of color and, as long as the filmmakers do the characters right, non comic fan filmgoers (or TV viewers) wouldn't know those lesser known diverse characters aren't heavy hitters.

And the James Bond argument is so damn stupid. Until the Daniel Craig Bond films (which were reboots of the entire Bond series), regardless of an actor change, it was always supposed to be the same James Bond. All that was being done was that the timeline was constantly sliding to adjust. A black Bond would only work if one of two things happen:
1) After Daniel Craig, they reboot again and go with a black actor as Bond or
2) After Craig leaves the role, they institute the old fan theory that James Bond is not a person but only an alias given to the agent who takes over the 007 role.

Just my 2 cents