Whoever at HBO needs to hear this:
Casting a black African man to play WHITE BRITISH Severus Snape doesn’t give me “REPRESENTATION” at all.
It gives me NAUSEA.
Because Harry Potter has been around for 28 years and 8 movies.
Which means you’ve had exactly that long to create a similar black series of your own.
You chose not to.
So to make him black NOW can only be to piss off the white fans that made the series successful in the first place.
IT. WONT. WORK.
They tried it with Little Mermaid: BOMB.
They tried it with Doctor Who: BOMB.
They JUST tried it with Captain America: BOMB.
And like those 3 flops, white people will boycott - and black people couldn’t care less.
Because the show is obviously being made by people who hate the franchise and its characters.
This ridiculous DEI casting should have stopped by now, but obviously USAID and the ESG people are paying for it, so it’s easy to burn other people’s money.
Keep it up Hollywood, I love laughing at the YouTube critics laughing at you fail.