The film’s director and some of its actors have addressed criticism around its casting.
the highly anticipated movie musical adapted from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway play, has sparked a conversation about colorism — a practice that favors light-skinned people over those with a darker complexion — in Hollywood. While the film, which hit theaters and streaming over the weekend, received glowing reviews from critics, many Latinx viewers expressed their disappointment in its casting.takes place in Washington Heights, a historically Afro-Latinx neighborhood in New York City.
“I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback,” he continued. “I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent pride and joy. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. I’m truly sorry.
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