Im watching Dexter and the guy who plays Mike in Breaking Bad is an fbi official. The Captain in the show, big Nordic head, looks like an SS officer.
So i got to thinking about how tv has a cop "look" and a greaseball criminal look and how HBO so clearly uses CS Coon racial typing.
So that would probably create a feedback loop; kids w that look who consume thousands of hours of media must be affected in how they see themselves.
Anyway who does the type casting? Studio technicians? Are there consulting firms?
I don’t know but every commercial is now a bi-racial couple or black. I actually saw a commercial last night with Asian woman with black man....now there’s something you see everyday!
Have you noticed all white people in commercials now are always in the wrong / acting stupid / doing something stupid / playing the role of the ignorant?
Ive seen like 9 commercials since 2008, no.
I remember in the early Bush era, between 9/11 and TARP that Apple and McDonald's both used on prominent ads a skinny mixed guy w an afro. I named him Manny
It wasnt a single actor, it was like a type. I urged all my mixed friends to go into modeling and advertising.