#[they proceed to pull out the whitest brit ever invented]
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white guy cast as heathcliff.... this is like benedict cumberbatch as khan but Worse
#puddle talks#casting that makes me abjectly miserable. who said that#wuthering heights#like they clearly didnt read the books. they didnt#i cant decide which is worse#like theres no pictures with the original wuthering heights#so its not as egregious as whoever casted star trek (2009) looking at ricardo montalban and going I Know Who We Should Get#[they proceed to pull out the whitest brit ever invented]#but heathcliff is CLEARLY not white and it is also VERY CLEARLY racism that makes people assume the worst of him#-> they assume hes evil because hes dark skinned -> he goes “wtf if everyone assumes im horrible why dont i prove them right”#like thats.....#if heathcliff was white then NONE OF THAT SHIT WOULDVE HAPPENED#cathy and heathcliff wouldve just married each other and been relatively normal (at least for northern england)#star trek 2009
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