[tps_header][/tps_header]9. Diversity in casting.
The best part about diversity in The Force Awakens is not how many different ethnicities are included, nor how it meets some quota for how many women should get placed in the movie just “because”. The real progressive message here is how, with an obviously modern, open-minded casting team, they found a diverse crew of actors that simply played the roles better than anyone else could. At 2015’s Comic Con panel, J.J. Abrams said, “The truth is, we didn’t write the characters of Finn or Rey to be any color, we just cast the movie. We thought it was important that the world of the film looks the way the world looks”. It only makes sense that the talent needed to inhabit these characters isn’t found in exclusively one race, gender or nationality, and the film is better for it!
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