WTF!!!!!

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Supposedly Michael Malone had initially planned for Blair to be a white blonde Southern belle, but at the time Linda Gottlieb wanted more diversity on the show. I guess he got his chance after Mia left.

How in the sam hell do you audition Asian women for an Asian role and pick the hillbilly that just strolled in? Were there no specifics in the casting call?

The audience would not accept that because you are going from Black to White. Asian's and white people have similar skin completions so the change would not be as drastic.

Just stop.

How in the sam hell do you audition Asian women for an Asian role and pick the hillbilly that just strolled in? Were there no specifics in the casting call?

White actors audition for minority roles all the time. A friend was doing casting for a project in New York calling for black actors only and alot of white actors came out They ever say stuff like "I have Native American in me so I can pass for ethnic" or "I can pass with a tan"

The audience would not accept that because you are going from Black to White. Asian's and white people have similar skin completions so the change would not be as drastic.

Y&R did recast a black actress for a white actress (Wanda Acuna to Jennifer Gatti), although the role was short-term, so it didn't get quite as much attention (this was also when the online boards were in their early days, so it wasn't going to get as much focus).

How in the sam hell do you audition Asian women for an Asian role and pick the hillbilly that just strolled in? Were there no specifics in the casting call?

Putting aside your calling her a "hillbilly" just because you can, it was a little more complex than that. Michael Malone in his, er, infinite wisdom, had always conceived of the character of Blair as a Southern belle in the Scarlett O'Hara mold. They had originally cast Mia Korf because she was simply the best actress they saw for the role. When her Blair was written out, MM became determined to recast Blair with his "true vision" of the character and he did just that. Regardless of previously established race.

Not saying I think that kind of conduct is defensible, because I don't, at all, but KDP is Blair to about 99.9% of the audience and I grew to love her in the role, so I got over it. She's really the only Blair I knew as a viewer.

Edited February 21, 201312 yr by Vee

The audience would not accept that because you are going from Black to White. Asian's and white people have similar skin completions so the change would not be as drastic.

You sound so ignorant and newsflash not all Asians are light. Have you ever met anyone from India, Cambodia, Thailand,etc?

You sound so ignorant and newsflash not all Asians are light. Have you ever met anyone from India, Cambodia, Thailand,etc?

Thank you.

Putting aside your calling her a "hillbilly" just because you can, it was a little more complex than that. Michael Malone in his, er, infinite wisdom, had always conceived of the character of Blair as a Southern belle in the Scarlett O'Hara mold. They had originally cast Mia Korf because she was simply the best actress they saw for the role. When her Blair was written out, MM became determined to recast Blair with his "true vision" of the character and he did just that. Regardless of previously established race.

Not saying I think that kind of conduct is defensible, because I don't, at all, but KDP is Blair to about 99.9% of the audience and I grew to love her in the role, so I got over it. She's really the only Blair I knew as a viewer.

There is no defense at all for that. It's shocking he got away with it, but this is ABCd airtime. It would have been better to just create a new character!

I think the only way she was going to be viable is as a light skinned and skinny actor. We'll see, they might surprise us, but tv does this all the time, especially soaps. It's rate that you have a dark skinned actor who is allowed frontburner stories and is treated well. Look at how Y&R treats Tonya Lee Williams like she doesn't exit. She gave them 15 years of non-stop frontburner stories, yet she was the only vet brought back with no story at all (even when her husband, part of a supercouple, returned). And I'm sorry, but if Tika Sumpter was white or light skinned I can assure you she and Cristian's romance would've been a big frontburner story. The chemistry and there and viewers liked them, yet they were always in the background.

AMEN.

Seeing as how Blair's supposed knowledge of Japanese and other Asian languages was written into the scripts as being a great help to Cord and Andrew in their hunt for Jake Harrison in 1991, I always thought it would've been hilarious to have KDP's Blair bust out Japanese on an international business call. It is canon, guys.

It reminds me of when they had Fiona Hutchison's Gabrielle suddenly remember Spanish in 2002 during the baby switch storyline. "That's right - she's Argentinian." (Mind you, Gabby was mixed-race and the product of a Argentinian landowner and a British woman.)

Edited February 21, 201312 yr by Vee

You sound so ignorant and newsflash not all Asians are light. Have you ever met anyone from India, Cambodia, Thailand,etc?

Thank you.

The point I am trying to make is that

A) Not everything has to do with race

Acting is Acting!

While we are on the topic here is another point:

C) People who assume everything is Race-Based are racist themselves!

While we are on the topic here is another point:

C) People who assume everything is Race-Based are racist themselves!

Not to get into this, but that's really not true, in my experience. That's all I'm going to say.

Oh lord I can't with that post I just read.

While we are on the topic here is another point:

C) People who assume everything is Race-Based are racist themselves!

*bites tongue*

I'm liking the idea of separate AMC and OLTL threads more and more.

This Laura Harrier girl is 5'9"...damn!