If they can't justify it for this project, they'll never justify it.

If they couldn't justify it with Avatar, they'll never justify it. That movie had to have non-white leads to stay true to a text that was visual and full of cues. This one merely may.

I think it would be great if they cast non white for Katniss, but I don't think it's a cultural and ethnic erasure the likes of what has gone before.

I also notice no one seemed to be bitching (not pointing at people here, just noting) until the actress in question was blonde. The other actresses weren't less white. They were just less blonde. I don't know if Jennifer is a natural blonde, and I really don't care.

I watched Trainspotting when I was a kid, but I didn't really get it. I rewatched it this morning and dug it. It's briskly paced and kinetically directed, and the actors make their characters sympathetic even when there's no real reason for them to be. Plus, Kelly Macdonald! In her film debut! Naked!

Also. shit humor!

OK, maybe that didn't need an exclamation point.

Also, I need to rewatch that.

Also. shit humor!

In more than one sense of the word, though I understand there are people who thought it a lot funnier than I did.

DH and I saw Trainspotting on our first date.

I've probably told the story before, but I saw Trainspotting when I was pregnant with Ben, got to the dead baby scene, and promptly lost my shit. Highly doubtful I'll ever watch it again, although I can appreciate what they were doing. Sort of.

DH and I saw Trainspotting on our first date.

And then you went back home and shot heroin?

I didn't bitch here before because I hadn't heard the casting was complete.

I didn't bitch here before because I hadn't heard the casting was complete.

I just wonder if it's notable that no one of colour was ever suggested for the casting in any avenues that I read, but until a blonde came up (and before it was final) it wasn't brought up as racist.

I, just...I will always eyeroll if someone thinks it takes only one race to match an unraced physical description that's not highly highly specific. It just seems that this is such a non-battle. There's no ethnicity being written here, and Collins seemed to be writing a white character.

Last Airbender was race-cleansing. This seems like another one of many instances of writing Caucasian on a casting sheet, and I don't get why it's getting more press than the tons of other times it seems to happen.

And, no, it doesn't feel like finally. Not to me. It feels like this is some sort of special written non-white scenario, when I see it (and, yes, all about me) as not-written-white, which is a whole different vibe.

I don't think the casting of Jennifer Lawrence is necessarily racist: I think only considering Caucasian actresses is. There's no good reason for that.