Passing
31st October 2021
The problem with casting obviously black women in roles where they are supposed to be able to pass as white is that the movie makes no sense:
Who could director Rebecca Hall have cast in Passing who could, you know, pass? How about Rashida Jones, the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton?
Or Beyoncé. Or Susan Rice. Or Don Lemon. Or Trevor Noah.
How about, for that matter, Rebecca Hall?
But would making Passing with actresses who actually could pass be more trouble than it was worth? Much of the current out-swelling of racist hatred for whites is due to black women worrying that, despite their high self-esteem, they aren’t objectively as pretty as white women, so casting two pretty actresses who look white is just asking for trouble.