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 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.