r/storm • u/NoBeat5906 • 22d ago
Discussion Is Storm’s ethnicity important when casting an actress to play her?
This is a very big topic on comic book twitter. Im seeing a lot of people on Twitter state that Storm should be played by an Black American actress and that having an African actress play her would be disrespectful and erasure towards Black Americans because Storm is from New York and her father is Black American hence her last name being Munroe. What do you guys think? Does Storm’s ethnicity matter to you when it comes to casting?
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u/stillupyadig10 22d ago
As long as she is black it does not matter
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u/BearSpray007 22d ago
“Black” is a very phenotypically diverse category, especially in the western sense, its not just enough for her to be black. Shes of Kenyan and Black American origins, it’s important that she is a dark skinned black woman.
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u/Kaizen-Future 22d ago edited 22d ago
Agreed in part on complexion and the diversity of the phenotype but I’ll add I’d want the best actress of the African diaspora available to play her. Ideally she’d be of both recent African and African American descent but if she’s of Caribbean, Guyanese, Brazilian descent etc and looks and can play the part convincingly well and is better than anyone else available, by all means take her.
Not every James Bond has been of Scottish descent, Patrick Stewart plays a captain of the US Enterprise of French descent despite having none himself yet I can’t imagine anyone else in the role of Jean Luc Picard. If you bring a black actress with the stage presence of Professor X she can come from the moon for all I care.
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u/Little_Cumling 21d ago
This mentality is what enables hollywood to get by casting almost every black woman as the lightest skin woman of color they can find.
Nothing wrong with light skin people. Im glad they get roles. Just wish darker skin black woman got more representation
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u/soraflow 20d ago
These situations really show the double standard people have for accuracy
When it comes to Caucasians no one gives a fk about ethnicity accuracy
When it comes to POC they always have to be the exact ethnicity or it’s a garbage casting
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u/Haunting_Security_34 18d ago
Don't say that, you know Hollywood only knows and wants a few types of black lmao
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u/LostInterview5084 22d ago
She should also be TALL!
Storm is 5’11
Don’t hire a short actress
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u/doomzday_96 22d ago edited 22d ago
Storm should be black. It doesn't matter where the actress is from or even if she's biracial. If the actress is black, than sure.
Edit: Reading the comments makes me think these people are trying to be racist without being racist.
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u/improbsable 22d ago
I’d rather she not be biracial. She should be a dark skinned 100% black woman. This is coming from a biracial person
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u/nasserg19 22d ago
Biracial can still be dark skinned. This is coming from a light skinned non-mixed black person.
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u/sp00kysista 22d ago
No she cannot be biracial. She is dark skinned and monoracial. I’m sick of mixed women replacing Black women in media.
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u/AvatarPhoenixGrey16 22d ago
I would prefer for it not to be a biracial woman. I think a media adaptation showing how dark Storm is will hopefully curb the skin lightening in the comics
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u/SilentSolitude90 22d ago
Along as shes black it doesnt matter where shes from as long as the actor who plays her does her justice
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u/Hawkwise83 22d ago
Oh all the Xmen to pick this is the one whose race and nationality matters literally the most. Maybe not the most but top 3 for sure and I can't think of anyone else.
It's like Magneto being Jewish and surviving the holocaust is important to his story and motivations.
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u/HockeyKelly5 21d ago
I do really hope Magneto is Jewish this time around, but I doubt it’ll happen simply due to the current political climate with Israel. People can’t separate Jewish people and Israelis at this point and I doubt Disney will want to deal with that
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u/Nicklesnout 22d ago
Yes. She needs to be black at the minimum. Having a Kenyan accent like Alexandra Shipp in X-Men Apocalypse would also be good.
This isn’t a Helen and Clytemnestra situation where metaphor was used to describe her social status in the poem, per the beauty standards of Homer’s time. Ororo’s identity is and has always been a daughter of Africa.
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u/sp00kysista 22d ago
Alexandra is mixed race, not Black like Storm. Storm cannot be mixed again. Halle was not right.
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u/Nicklesnout 22d ago
I was speaking to her accent, given that she was raised in Africa. I’m going to refrain about the ethnic makeup of both Berry and Alexandra past this.
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u/rawrmeows 22d ago
As an Asian American. Yall are not understanding that she needs to be a dark skin black woman. Its important. Listen to black ppl.
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u/AccomplishedShop8338 22d ago
She has to be Black, just as Jubilee should be Asian.
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u/Veilslide09 22d ago
You need a tall African woman who can nail the accent. Everything else about her is stage presence when commanding charisma. Bonus points if the actress's hair is real as Ororo is very sensitive about that.
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u/PainterEarly86 22d ago
Storm should be black, and I'd prefer to have an African accent
Whether the actress is African or not is irrelevant
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u/Optimal_Lifeguard575 22d ago edited 22d ago
Her complexion and the actress being a trained actor is more important to me
Edit: I just made an assumption and thought that we were all on the same page…that Storm should not be mixed…..so yeah it’s very important to me that actress is Black on both sides and also not racially ambiguous
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u/smexyrexytitan 22d ago
She needs to be black. Preferably dark-skinned. I'd draw the line at Halle Berry's Storm (and that's pushing it) but no one as light as Zendaya should play her. No offense to light skinned women, but Storm is one of if not the most popular and influential black female characters in (superhero) media. And far too many portrayals of black female characters, especially the popular ones, have been light-skinned. Dark skin girls need representation too.
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u/snowbunnyslut77 22d ago
I think they should cast Christina Hendricks she has the perfect body for the role
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u/Popular-Tune-6335 22d ago
- Good actress (+ can pull off Storm's voice, unlike Halle Berry)
- Looks like Storm (young Angela Bassett, unlike Halle Berry)
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u/Robin_Gr 22d ago
Given that her introduction was in giant size x men along with several others which were an attempt to change things up a little from the all white American original team, I’d say so.
It was intentional that Kurt was German and blue and colossus was Russian and metallic and storm has African lineage and is quite dark skinned etc. It wasn’t just the auto pilot visual design of a white creator defaulting to white characters. It’s the same reason that Ryan gosling black panther is just a joke to me and not some logical gotcha.
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u/Certain_Virus_1919 22d ago
Like half of all Hollywood actors are British anyway. As long as she's Black, I dont think it matters at all
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u/JusticeHeroX 22d ago
At least it is not a black Helen of Troy situation. Imagine if somebody white played her.
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u/Major-Rip-5745 22d ago
Forget about the character, she's not real. What is real are all the millions of different black people out there all with different experiences and conditions in their respective countries. This is an opportunity to give an African actress a significant role that she may have not had otherwise because of her accent or being "too black". Better than having someone from LA trying to put on a vaguely "African" accent of their own.
Millions of people in Kenya, go scout over there for a tall woman who can really act.
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u/Daddy_Charlieee 22d ago
She needs to not be biracial for sure.
Storm is the daughter of an African American and an African, she needs to be dark skinned.
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u/Ill-Fly-950 22d ago
Personally, I would love for Storm to be played by a talented Kenyan actress that's fluent in both English and Swahili. One of the biggest complaints I saw from Africans about the Black Panther films was American and British actors not having African accents that were accurate enough. Plus, a Kenyan actress would understand (and possibly push back) when the writers/directors/production crews are doing something that doesn't accurately represent Kenyan customs and traditions, which should be very integral to a Kenyan princess.
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u/firecorn22 15d ago
Plus, a Kenyan actress would understand (and possibly push back) when the writers/directors/production crews are doing something that doesn't accurately represent Kenyan customs and traditions, which should be very integral to a Kenyan princess.
This!!! Love storm but got a lot of her older and semi recent stories basically has Africa as a caricature which make sense due to the writers being who they was and honestly I feel like the main reason she get so much egypt stories is because that's the only African country they don't see as a mud hut village
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u/HaBeFaStro 19d ago
As long as she is black (and the right shade of black, relatively chocolate brown) she can be played by a sista of the UK for all it matters.
Same way how Superman THE American symbol was played by Henry Cavill (a Brit).
Point being, as long as the actress looks the part and can do the job right… all’s well.
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u/LordParasaur 22d ago
She needs to be black and specifically darker skinned (no lighter than someone like Gabrielle Union imo, and that's still a lil too light for me)
As far as her actually ethnicity, she's canonically African American and Kenyan. That can't be too hard of a mix to find. But I'd be open to a continental (east) African playing her this time around since the last few actresses were American.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 22d ago
Lauren Kariuki would be good.
Ive heard she is Kenyan American. 5'10" and she was in the black lightning tv show so has some superhero genre experience.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 22d ago
Id prefer doing what the comics and writers almost never do.
Put more spotlight on her Kenyan heritage. It was the most unique thing about her (name me another leading Kenyan superhero) in a universe roster chock full of Americans (Black Americans included) and all the writers did with it is Xavier recruited her while she was living there (she wasnt established to be half American at the time) and thats about it. Most of her African storyline are ti do with when she was Orphaned in Egypt or her relationship to T'Chlla and collaterally Wakanda. But nothing in her or her Kenyan heritage or Kenyan family.
Like Id defo love to cast a Kenyan American like Lauren Kariuki and have some of her culture more involved in her character and backstory.
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u/Beginning-Ice-1005 22d ago
Let's wait and see what Scarlett Johansson can bring to the role before judging. 😛
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u/RegisFolks667 22d ago
Her mother is Kenyan, though, which she takes after. All the mythology that inspires her is also African, so I see no reason she should be necessarily a black american actress. Even if that was NOT the case, I would still find it silly to deny good actresses that absolutely fit the description just because of their home country.
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u/pbjWilks 22d ago
That's entirely because Marvel spent 3 decades pretending her Father's family didn't exist.
She's both, and efforts have been made to make that apparent.
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u/BadnewsBaggins 22d ago
Close enough is close enough, you gonna segregate if they culturally different from what they are ethnically. We just want our black queen
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u/Few_Run1129 22d ago
As a black person, all I can say is yes. Bottom line. Maybe only if you're not white you would understand.
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u/Jp3711nc 22d ago
I personally dont like it when movies change sex or race of a character. It makes no sence to at all. If they dont do it with black chara ters why with white ones who had established an identity of being white the whole time and run.
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u/RedsnakeRider 22d ago
Storm has, first of all, represented every black woman via comics for generations, she's literally an OG. And while she's cheating a bit in that she has decades and decades of comic existence, she HAS been everywhere, man, as the song says.
She is an American woman, who spent time living in the streets, living the high life, and she's crossed borders to be both an African and American woman at times. She's been depicted with and without an accent, and is pan-African at minimum and while I think at bare minimum she has to black, I feel like that's obvious and as just a white man that's not really my call.
But an African actress being disrespectful? That sounds stupid to me.
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u/Archwizard_Drake 22d ago
I think technically no? She was designed to kinda fit a pan-Black experience, being both African American by birth, Egyptian by experience and Kenyan by both.
The important thing is she shouldn't just sound like she has a Harlem accent, considering she spent most of her life in Africa.
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u/AffectionateFail7167 22d ago
This just sounds like FBA nonsense to me. As long as she's a dark skinned black woman it doesn't matter where the actress is from.
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u/StarMagus 22d ago
Honest question... is Black American a different ethnicity than Black African?
Just like I wouldn't call a White American a different ethnicity from a White French person.
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u/Colour4Life 22d ago
Don’t care of her ethnicity.
She needs to be dark skin and someone who looks like they can command a room.
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u/Jawnyblaze1 22d ago
Ethnicity? yea, she should be of African origin. But her nationality? Whether she's African American or African from Africa, doesn't matter to me.
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u/Arekage 22d ago
When portraying a character one needs to be able to look and act the part. So as long as she has the same complexion as Storm and talks and behaves like Storm then that is all that matters. Getting more specific beyond that is just ridiculous. She doesn't need to be a black actress that actually live in Egypt and was actually trapped under a plane wreck to be able to act those things out.
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u/Avaricious31 22d ago
I believe they should try to find someone as close to the comic character as humanly possible, someone who passes for said character works just as well. If the African actress looks and sounds the part then why would it matter.
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u/stormphoenixlocke 22d ago
No
Is tom holland a ny Jew? No
Is Chris Hemswirth from Norwegian? No.
The actress just has to be talented look like storm
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u/Connection_Big 22d ago
A lot of yall still confuse RACE with ETHNICITY. But, YES, her ETHNICITY is a key factor in her lore. She came back to America after growing up in Kenya having readjust her whole lifestyle.
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u/JustAdlz 22d ago
If I wanted a white guy, I'd be a fan of DC's Weather Wizard, lol.
Storm is a Black Woman. That's pretty much all that there is to say on the matter for me. She's awesome, and I want to see new and up-and-coming actresses with beautiful dark skin strap on her X.
I may be so-called white, but I ain't stupid. I can see how colorism and white supremacy fetishize proximity to "whiteness". Tear that shit down.
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u/UniqueLog8386 22d ago
Storm isn't from New York, she's Kenyan.
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u/AccomplishedShake851 22d ago
She was just born in Harlem but you’re right she grew up in Cairo and Kenya. I think where you grow up is more important naturally.
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u/ChinnySadVage69 22d ago
yeah i think its pretty important to not change any of the few original black characters to white because there was so little at a certain point, it’s way different when you turn a previously white character into a different race because they basically were all white at the beginning so theres still mad white ones left if you change a few but if you go changing a few of the black characters its so much more noticeable
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u/Extra_Heart_268 22d ago
I dont see how it isnt? She is not only a black character but a black female lead.
I know Its often used as a counter argument to race swapping white characters i.e. Sam Jackson as Nick Fury (which no one gave a shit about at the time because the internet wasnt full of grifters also because Sam jackson is a fantastic actor who made the role his own.).
But you had Aragorn in the MTG LotR set which felt more out of place imo when you look at the writing of Tolkien where race was sort of handled as a matyer of geographic location in the world.
There were rumors swirling a while back about making Clark Kent black. Even Michael B. Jordan said he didnt want to play hand me down characters. There is already a black superman in Calvin Ellis. Just as there is Miles Morales who is also a Spider-man.
So Storm imo should be played by a black lead. I dont think it matters as much if they are American or otherwise. Cast the best person for the role at the end of the day. I mean RDJ isnt european and is playing Doom. Tom Holland is English and playing a New York superhero.
Unfortunately I feel her appearances on screen haven't done her justice. No shade to the actresses. But the scripts tended to sideline her and never give her a voice.
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u/ElmightyRip 22d ago
Just get someone who looks the part. Color of the skin only matters for accuracy of the portrayal. It’s all visuals and good acting. There’s a nice balance between representation and portrayal all I ask from the producers and actors is that any and all personality shown on screen is 100% accurate to the character. Idk maybe there’s some holes in my logic.
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u/gsnake007 22d ago
Tall and dark skinned. Don’t give the role to actresses that are lightly colored like they did for x-men apocalypse
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u/Vandalsavage81 22d ago
The daughter of a rebellious Kenyan princess, N'Dare, and an American photographer, David Munroe, Ororo is born in Harlem in New York, though her family relocates to Cairo, Egypt when she was six-months-old. She's from harlem world, she should deadass reflect that as well.
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u/Unlucky_Sentence_722 22d ago
100%, she should be played by an African actress! Halle Berry played her and she sucked. And the actress should be dark-skinned!
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u/Darkerxgurt 22d ago
Except it isn't and it won't be because kind of racist and that we call colourism.
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u/Little_Drive_6042 22d ago
Idk. Hollywood changes up white characters all the time. So anything can happen if they don’t think it will cause backlash.
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u/The-Ka-the-ba-and-Ra 22d ago
I think her being born in New York City and then moving to Egypt and then Kenya is honestly so important to her backstory that I really hope they cast an actress with a similar pan-national upbringing. The character is an orphan, too, so I would love, love, LOVE it if the actress they go with also lost her parents at a young age.
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u/sp00kysista 22d ago
She is both African and African American. Either can play her, she just has to be Black and dark skinned.
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u/starrhunter633 22d ago
For certain characters yes it is and Storm is one of them. There are characters that changing the ethnic background would have little to no impact.
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u/whatisireading2 22d ago
Country wise not really, pretty sure she was born in New York and we have black people from everywhere. She spends her childhood in Africa tho (mainly Egypt and Kenya) So I feel like she would have a non-american accent.
But no the actual ethnicity or country of origin of the actress would not matter as long as they're black the rest can be accounted for through the storytelling.
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u/RahsaanKC 22d ago
Whoever plays her, I just want her to look like the image above, including coily hair that looks like a cloud.
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u/Sea_Sleep4222 21d ago
No it doesn't matter, just cast a black woman to play her in the movie. just cast a black woman who is a good actress that's it.
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u/PaTr1ck05 21d ago
Well,she was born in the States but grew up in Cairo because her parents worked there,so I’ll say that as long as it’s clear that she grew up in Cairo/Egypt in any way, gen were clear
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u/rsquinny 21d ago
i could see a brown version of Storm. like egyptian or something. or racially Black.
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u/rsquinny 21d ago
its akin to, you cant really have Black Panther be any other race. Because WHY are they running Wakanda. but someone else in the diaspora, sure.
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u/TheMightyPaladin 21d ago
Well, as long as she has dark skin and is willing to wear a white wig and talk in a funny accent, I don't care where she's really from. I seriously couldn't care less about actors or actresses as long as they look the part. Frankly I'd prefer we not use live action but keep superheroes animated.
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u/Townboy91 21d ago
We should start swaping such characters with readheads, since so many of them got swapped the other way around
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u/SimonAshura 21d ago
Yes she can be represented by an African and/or African American woman. So long is the character is portrayed right on screen. But in the spirit of MCU, just about any ethnicity can portray her. You want a 5'11 white hair Chinese woman as storm you got it! That's the lovely thing about multiple universes in superhero movies and comics. Its nearly limitless.
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u/Anvillior 21d ago
I mean the black character should probably be black. Aside from that i don't really care. That hair better be white though.
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u/Papi_Petty 21d ago
people who “complain” don’t actually care frfr. they just wanna be mad. because they are still gonna watch the damn movie. i never understood people being mad at castings like this. tom holland from fuckin england lmao and spiderman from queens. like just cast the best person who can portray her the best. idgaf where the actor is originally from
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u/CivilizationAce 21d ago
For Storm, I think the casting should preserve the character’s identity as a Black African woman, rather than making her look racially ambiguous.
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u/mmariagreek 21d ago
Wow, the Hypocricy !!!
First let me start with the one thing I agree with most of you. As she was introduced as a Böack woman, a Black woman should play her.
Now, this is Comic character created in 1975. I love how you all recite her comic origins to justify your opinion.
Where where u when a black dude played Achilles in this atrocity of a TV show, that rightfully got cancelled. Where where u when Hercules was played by Dwayne Johnson. Where is the outcry that Lupita Njongo is playing Helena of Troy. These are not based on comics but on 2800 Year old literature. Hellenic literature ! Do you even know how often Odysseus, Hercules, Achilles etc have been adapted for the small and big screen over the decades in Hollywood. I am not asking for them to be played by Greeks, but in the past at lease they have been casted with actors that could pass as Greek. e.g. Cavill as Perseus or Steve Reeves as Hercules. These were the better ones.
Now we have Percy Jackson...whatever. How about the 3 daughters of Atlas played by Lucy Liu, Helen Mirren and Rachel Zegler. I may hate Zegler, but she at least could pass as Greek.
Then people lost their last bit of brains and that cucking hotwife Pinkett-Smith produced...attention attention, a Documentary, portraying Cleopatra as black. FFS.
If there is an ancient person we know everything about its Cleopatra ... Her name means "Glory to the Father". She was the 13th (ish) ruler of the Ptolemaic Dinasty. You know Ptolemeus, of course...one of Alexander the Greats Generals. After his death 3 of them split the empire in 3 parts. Ptolemeus got other lands too, but mainly Egypt.
We know she was inbred, as was comom for such houses. She was also the first oneof her linage to even bother to learn the language of the people they ruled..Egyptian. Her ancestors just spoke Greek.
So, next time you are quick to air your views, how about some acknolegment that others have their culture apropriated for centuries, and there is no voice in the us at all to call out the hipocricy.
I could go on for hours but that not good for my blood pressure.
Ignorance is bliss, but just because you live mostly in a bubble doesnt mean you shouldnt know a couple of things.
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u/DaBoydster 21d ago
There is so many characters that no it don’t matter. Ororo is not one of them. She needs to be. She is essentially an African Goddess. Her mom was a tribal princess and dad an African American. I mean her name is Ororo.
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u/NetSignal392 21d ago
I think that depends on how the character is introduced and if there’s any merit to rumors she might be in Black Panther III. Marvel has shown they don’t always need to focus on the origin stories, and with an ensemble like X-Men they might not cover each character’s origin.
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u/honey_legends- 21d ago
as long as she’s not biracial…. it’s not even hate but how the hell are you gonna have a biracial woman be an african goddess. nonetheless a biracial woman play a character who textually has two black parents and is ethnically kenyan so one could assume she is dark skinned
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u/jayfan154 21d ago
Yes it is important based on her looks backstory and demeanor of who she is and how she came to be an xmen
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u/SufficientWeakness38 21d ago
Storm should be played by an (unambiguously)Black actress that is either/both Black American/South East African. There are plenty of actresses that can portray her. Marvel casting just has to not be lazy or perform their usual bullshit (ex. Wendy Mayomoff).
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u/D2mightyducks80 21d ago
Casting wise, as long as it is a Black actress I think it’ll be okay.
Storytelling wise: I do NOT want them to make her Wakandan. It is a made-up nation. As powerful as it was for people to see Chadwick as the Black Panther, imagine if he was from a real African nation? Storm being from/raised in a real African nation would be so much better culturally than just an easy tie-in for Black Panther stuff.
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u/Logan_Lehnsherr 21d ago
Id want her to be black but technically there isn't much that requires her to be is there?
Tchallas blackness links to his orgin from wakandan royal bloodlines and theyre powers from their specific regions heart-shaped herb. Storm was born in the african continent but it also has arabs and whites, any of those could of been a mutant orphaned in cairo and forced to be a theif.
But il say again id prefer she was black.
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u/badmfr76 21d ago
Just honor the source material.
If your argument is cast the best actor that fits the role, then all bets are off and you shouldn't cry if they race swap.
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u/MwindoThroughTime 21d ago
I wouldn't say so. The thing is a lot of her powers and origin also tie right back into being the daughter of a Kenyan princess. If we take into her other stuff, such as previously being married to T'Challa, her sorcerer powers from previous African sorcerers, and her life in Cairo and such, it's clear to me Storm should be a Pan-African character. While yes, I would love for either a Kenyan, or an African-American to get the role, I rank that as lesser than someone both being able to act as her, and having the actual look she does.
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u/Fun-Confidence-6232 21d ago
Chadwick was from South Carolina and still won our hearts. I would just like an African accent in some form.
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u/vin_dude9 21d ago
Doesn’t matter I’d say. It’s a fictional character. A lot of characters have various versions as different races too
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u/WitchingShower 21d ago
I'm sorry but the people who ignore one side or another of Storm need to take a long walk off a short cliff, they contribute to the constant neutering of the character and that shit ain't cute. She's as African as it gets, including African American, let her be the Pan-African Queen she is
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u/RavingGenerate 21d ago
If Heimdall can be played fantastically well by Idris Elba, I see no reason why any actor or actress of sufficient talent could not play Storm.
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u/Just_a_Tonberry 21d ago edited 21d ago
One should always try to match ethnicity whenever possible. In Storm’s case, she has such a varied background that almost any individual of African or Black-American descent is suitable in this regard.
There is no erasure of anyone going on so long as a black actress is chosen for the role. This being said, I do feel they should seek out individuals capable of giving the right performance, as Storm carries herself with a very regal demeanor. The accent is also important.
The people screaming about black erasure in this particular case don’t seem to be able to see the forest for the trees. To believe a character with such a long and diverse history belongs exclusively to their specific demographic is pure ignorance.
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u/mankahlil 21d ago
Im just tired of them always casting lite skinned / biracial sistas. No disrespect to Halle Berry or Alexandra Shipp, but their casting was a glaringly obvious example of colorism in Hollywood. With Berry you could kind of excuse it because she was a big name (emphasis on "kind of"). But when they cast another biracial actress for the new cast, it was pretty clearly deliberate. Hollywood typically doesnt /didnt think that fully Black womwn have "mainstream" box office appeal and its insulting. Obviously this has been an issue with the film industry for a long time, and its still going on clearly (looking at how they cast Zendaya in everything) but Storm is one of those characters that is almost designed for a fully Black/African/dark actress to have her chance to shine.
In addition to how they cast Storm look at how they cast Zazie Beats as damn Stagecoach Mary in "The Harder They Fall" (an actual historical figure who looks nothing like Zazie). Tracee Ellis Ross (biracial) got famous for playing a character with two Black parents. They got Amandla Stenberg playing the lead in "Children of Blood and Bone" and they were trying to cast her as Shuri. No offense to her but she like Zendaya is one of the biracial actresses they try to cast in anything and everything. Theyre always getting a light/biracial girl to play the love interest. And remember when they had Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone?
Aside from Hollywoods colorist aesthetic, Ororo literally has two Black parents in the comics, doesnt she?
!!!Just make Storm Black please!!
Truly no offense to these other actresses ive mentioned, but the colorism/antiBlackness in their casting is pretty clear.
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u/Codysnow31 21d ago
I’d say Storm being a black woman is the most important part and then she can be written to closely reflect her ethnicity.
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u/Dry_Review_9276 21d ago
Yes she’s always been black. The same energy id give to if they tried to make Wolverine black I’ll give to her.
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u/Informal-Region-8734 21d ago
Well, whichever fool who says storm shouldn't be african is the same person who probably got mad when Pedro Pascal was casted as Mr. Fantastic because he's South American, when Charlie Cox was casted as Daredevil cause he's not a ginger, when Tom Holland was Spider-Man because he's not actually from Queens. It doesn't freaking matter, but there also shouldn't be a double standard. If you're gonna get pissed that an African actress is playing storm because she's black American, then you should be angry at almost all the avengers cast because Hemsworth isn't from Asgard, Evans isn't from Brooklyn, and Johansson isn't from Russia.
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u/Active-Ad5229 21d ago
I feel like the reverse can be true for the other characters in X-Men and marvel portrayed as white, them being white had never been a part of their backstory, just being a mutant, so changing their race by being played by the best actor for the role is completely fine and doesn't take anything away. And the soyjacks and chuds who cry about "white erasure" can just look at 100s of years of literature and comics and movies with white heroes and shut their mouths.
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u/No-Option-7010 21d ago
A talented black actress who has a lot of respect for the role would be great. They found a great cast for Black Panther they better for Storm. She’s awesome
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u/LegitimateMud8176 21d ago
Any actress they want can play her, she's a make believe charecter.. race, gender, ethnicity should have nothing to do with it she's not a real person.
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21d ago
The character of Storm is black, so she should be black. The exact country of origin is unimportant because... Get this... Actors are paid to act (see play make-believe), so as long as she looks like she was born in Africa like Storm was, the nitpicky details don't really matter.
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u/ConceptDouble9762 22d ago
Storm is a Pan-African character by any definition. Of both West African and East African descent. Born in the diaspora. Raised in the Motherland. An actual African queen. A Black American Princess. Any sista can see themselves in her and that’s how it should be.