Do you think people of different ethnicities feel weird or wrong doing voices for cartoons of different ethnicities than themselves?
This all started when I was trying to figure out if Bob Odenkirk or will Arnette was playing the voice in the DreamWorks children's series "Baby Boss: Back In Business" (it wasn't either of them, lol) and I looked at the rest of the cast.
And one of the characters (also an original character in the movie) was voiced by a notable, man of color: Kevin Michael Richardson (Cleveland show, the boondocks) though the fat baby in the movie was voiced by a white male then voiced by a male of color on the series so to keep things similar I understood keeping the fat baby white.
But then I was watching: The Guardian Brothers (an animated movie about a mother and her child depicted to be of Asian descent) voiced by Nichole Kidman and Bella Thorne, respectively.. along with other notable white people.. and I was like huh... That's odd.
Then I was watching Planet 51.. and Dwayne Johnson was voicing a completely white astronaut..
Now I get it these are animated films and I'm sure there's more examples to pull from than the ones I've listed.. but this also leads me to another question:
What about when they hire actors to play in movies with missing limbs and stuff (and the movie is specifically based on the person not having certain limbs) and they cast actors with all of their limbs...
I feel like there has to be great actors and actresses that would have loved to play these parts and done an amazing job at it.. but yet they cast other people for them who have their limbs or they don't make their characters look like the actors doing the voices of the characters.. I just find it kind of ridiculous.. like there was no reason they couldn't have made the astronaut look like Dwayne Johnson or have women and men of Asian descent voicing the characters in the movie the guardian brothers. I can understand the boss baby situation because the fat baby in the movie was a white guy voicing him to begin with..it's just wild to me. 🤷♀️
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