Casting a white Katniss created a domino effect. Louella is Katniss’s lookalike, and Lou Lou is Louella's body double. Because Katniss is white on screen, Lou Lou is too. It completely erases a powerful book subplot about the systemic theft and erasure of Indigenous women.
between this and the reaction to Lily-Rose Depp in Nosferatu I’m increasingly learning that people think the bigger and more expressive your performance the better it is