Hugh Linehan: There are sound practical and ethical reasons for colour-blind and colour-conscious casting. Other attempts to rewrite the past are absurdGemini: the images that Google’s visual AI tool created when asked for an illustration of a 1943 German soldier. Illustration: Gemini AI/Google
However, some have argued for years that the whole thing is just tokenism. It would be better, they argue, to extend the canon rather than tinker around with history. Others advocate instead for “colour-conscious” casting, à laHamilton, where the performances of nonwhite actors as white historical figures form a central part of the creative intent. Others again just see the whole idea as crass liberal virtue-signalling.
Colour-blind casting really began in theatre, where it was often the subject of vigorous debate. But it plays quite differently on screen than on stage. Not for the first time, there is an obvious tension here between film’s opposing poles of the fantastical and the hyperrealistic. In fantasy and sci-fi, the old rules about what elves or Valyrians or Vulcans could or couldn’t look like have been largely dispensed with. And the same is increasingly true of historical dramas.
Who benefits? Chibber quotes James Baldwin: “A great deal of one’s energy is expended in reassuring white Americans that they do not see what they see.”image generator, Gemini, offers a dystopian scenario of where all this might be heading. Gemini was withdrawn after users started to notice the strange results it was giving to certain requests.
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