> Why is it so hard for some people to believe that these days, casting can cast a wider net and that there are plenty of qualified actors of all races that wil

> Why is it so hard for some people to believe that these days, casting can cast a wider net and that there are plenty of qualified actors of all races that will still fit the parts being cast? that's not the part that's hard to believe. there are enough talented actors to make an entire (good!) cast out of any single race if the management so desired. the part that's hard to believe is that the racial makeup of the cast is not itself an intentional choice. this particular story is a PR minefield for a large company. in universe, there are multiple literal races (species?) of humanoid creatures that have intrinsic differences. there's no way they just "let the chips fall as they may" on those casting decisions. I don't think they deliberately chose a diverse cast to be able to argue that anyone who didn't like the show was a racist. I do think it is part of a larger strategy to make their $750mm show appeal to a broad audience at the expense of upsetting nerds whose suspension of disbelief is shattered by an interracial dwarf marriage.