Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many directors agree that they cast roles with particular physical types in mind. While an actor's physical type is only one of the factors that directors say they consider, some directors concede that it could be a reason why more Black actors are not cast...
Some directors say that the reason more Blacks aren't cast is that there simply aren't very many Black actors to begin with, because the undergraduate student body is only about 8 percent Black...
...some directors, including Salovaara, have deliberately cast against expected physical types. When he directed Arthur Miller's After the Fall three years ago, Salovaara cast a Black woman in a role he says is traditionally associated with "Marilyn Monroe types...
...Walker, who in last December's Sweeney Todd cast several Blacks in traditionally white roles, including one of the romantic leads, says, "There are times when you can definitely cast without concern for race...
Salovaara, who last year supervised the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Common Casting week--the process through which directors cast simultaneously all the plays on the HRDC semester production schedule--estimates that fewer than 10 percent of the actors who audition through Common Casting are Black...