![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And oh yeah Sujaya is a Bengali woman like me so no, I don’t need to “check myself” while talking about WOC. Oh I’m sorry, if I, a dark WOC should be hurt and upset. I’ve had at least 5 people corner me about “being hateful” about the Netflix show. Unlike say, Jlaw in THG.Īnd listen, I’m probably being repetitive but colorism isn’t a joke and brushing it away with an insensitive callous remark like “well opinions can differ, I like them anyway” and other such ridiculous statements spoken from a place of complete ignorance can be annoying and condescending. Jessie is a very light skinned part Taiwanese lady who TF cares she is playing ALINA STARKOV, the main lady AND her role isn’t robbing a dark skinned actress of a deserved part. Yes I know Kaya Scodelario, Katie McGrath and Zhenya Katava are the preferred face claims for her)ĭoes this mean that light skinned POC should never be cast? NO! But they shouldn’t substitute characters explicitly called dark? Because it absolutely nullifies the point of representation. Just as everybody will forget that Lata was dark and Jesper and probably Zoya too, if we judge by the official Kevin Wada fanart. There was some outcry then everybody forgot. Y'all remember Hunger Games? Katniss, Gale, Haymitch and Rue, who looked like typical inhabitants of their respective districts with OLIVE SKIN OR BROWN SKIN were all played by white actors/ light skinned woc and even Finnick Odair who was “bronze skinned” was played by uh….Sam Claflin. Now I know y'all will immediately jump to the conclusion that OMG JES AND ZOYA ARE BIRACIAL THEY CAN BE PALE SKINNED but literally, LITERALLY biracial people can be dark skinned too and the fact that your thinking automatically goes to pale skin by default shows a lot about how the dark skinned (biracial or otherwise) people are sidelined and treated even at the cost of their identities. ![]() Before this, Li was in the live theater show All About Eve and a few short films like Together, They Smoke and Travelooper.And Zoya’s skin colour is never specified but she is said to be half Suli in King of Scars. Shadow and Bone is Li’s first major role in a TV show. "When you have a character who is visibly an outsider, who has been treated shabbily, who has been told repeatedly that she looks like the enemy, to then be thrust into the role of saving a nation that has rejected her on many terms, I think that makes the story much richer and more powerful," Bardugo told Entertainment Weekly. Jessie Mei Li plays Alina - a notable change from the books, as Alina is now half-Shu - a person from the Asia-like land of Shu Han that Ravka is warring with. Her new power as a Sun Summoner makes her invaluable, as people believe she’s the only one who can dispel the Fold, a shadowy void on the land that’s full of monsters. Jessie Mei Li as Alina StarkovĪt the start of the series, Alina is an orphan and soldier in the First Army, which is the regular army seen as more disposable than the Grisha one. Here’s your guide to the Shadow and Bone cast - many of them relative newcomers - and their characters. The result is a much denser and richer world than originally seen in Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone. We knew we wanted to make some changes there." "I wrote this very white, very straight 'chosen one' story that was rooted in echoes of what I had grown up reading in terms of fantasy, but certainly didn't reflect the world around me or the world that I live in. "I'm very proud of Shadow and Bone, but I'm also conscious of its shortcomings," Bardugo told Entertainment Weekly. Along the way, her story intersects with numerous other characters, like the mysterious General Kirigan and a group of lovable rogues from Bardugo’s later Six of Crows books.Ĭompared to Bardugo’s original Shadow and Bone, Netflix’s adaptation is notably more diverse. When cartographer Alina Starkov discovers she has the unique power of light, she embarks on a journey that takes her across her country of Ravka. Based on a series of YA novels by Leigh Bardugo, Netflix’s new YA drama Shadow and Bonetakes place in a war-torn universe where magical soldiers called Grisha are able to wield fire, manipulate metal, and stop hearts. Calling all fantasy fans: it’s time to dive into the Grishaverse. ![]()
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