HBO’s “Girls” To Have More Colorful Cast?
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Lena Dunham, creator/writer/often director and lead in HBO’s award-winning series Girls is not super pumped about her whitewashed casting choices, and she wants to make a change.
Speaking at the Fortune Magazine‘s annual Most Powerful Women Summit, Lena revealed that she felt:
“Heartbreak at the idea that the show would make anyone feel isolated. [Because] all I want to do is make women feel excited and included by the show.”
That being said, Dunham made a commitment to her audience that Season 2 of Girls will include:
“A multitude of new characters in the show. There are some of color. Some are not. Some are Caucasian.”
Honestly, I know diversity is great and all, but I’d rather not see it shoehorned into a show that has such a specific perspective. I’m glad Dunham’s addressing these issues, but it isn’t her responsibility to show EVERY woman’s perspective, EVER.
Thoughts?
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Tags: celebrity, girls, HBO, Lena Dunham, race, star, television
October 5th, 2012 at 5:53 am
I completely agree. We have become a society where we are required to show all walks of life in every situation and that doesn’t always work. It doesn’t make you racist if you create a show that only warrants Caucasian characters. I don’t know why everything has to be so diverse. If you are creating a show about the world then you need to be diverse. If your show is about a specific experience or group of people then I don’t think you should be required to make it diverse.
October 6th, 2012 at 8:54 am
I guess I don’t really agree that there shouldn’t be characters of other races on the show. Have you ever lived in New York? It’s incredibly diverse. I can’t imagine living there for any length of time and not having friends/acquaintances/interactions with folks of SOME other race – Black, Asian, Latina, whatever. You’d have to go to great lengths to even avoid that. My beef with the lack of characters of color is not that Lena has a responsibility to include them – it’s that the lack of inclusion simply isn’t representative of life in New York. She’s missing out on a whole spectrum.
And if there’s any question as to my own race, I’m a white female.
October 6th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
I have to agree with Katoato that the setting of NYC requires a diverse cast of characters.
So many programmes on TV do not feature women of colour- Latina, Asian, Black etc.
Shows like Grey’s Anatomy, True Blood, The Good Wife, Desperate Housewives and Private Practice are great not only because they include different races but they are written very well. These shows prove that multiculturalism doesn’t hurt the rattings and writing.
I have watched and loved shows with basically all white casts (Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl) but have alway felt disappointed after years of faithful wathcing that they did not add characters of colour. As a black woman i feel the need to mention that black woman can and should be shown on TV as educated, elegant and funny. They should not only be shown as gospel jesus loving middle-aged mommies or as the classic mad ghetto black woman. I wish tv shows would show the new generation of black women that are not simply defined by their skin colour and other races.