Also observe how those "replacement in race" people are completely silent on the 3 body problem show that made pretty much all of the Chinese characters from the book into westerners

Thanks for the historical context - I knew most of it personally but not the name of the actor who played Juliet first.

It's nice to know that kind of information has survived so far. History is weird like that.

Honestly watching Shakespeare in the cross dressing way really made me like it. They teach you Shakespeare in school by reading it, that's stupid. That's like studying the godfather and only reading the script and never watching the film. I hated it. Then one day I saw the actual play, done in drag and it really made the humor pop and made me finally understand what the fuck they were talking about in that script

"Sounds gay. I'm in!"

The story says she's from a noble family in North Italy. Most likely she has olive skin tone.

It's been a lot of years since high school English, but Juliet Capulet was of the Italian family Capulet in the 1590s.

There is some detail in the references of the Capulet family to real world factions of the time. But both those arguing for and against this casting don't care about any of that.

Even if race is an important component, we don't have to repeat everything exactly. Let an artist twist it and see what happens.

I only dislike it when historical shows or movies race swap, cause it kinda ignores the racism of that community at that point in time. Like a black woman playing queen Elizabeth wouldn't make sense. Or Cleopatra for that matter

You are thinking way too hard about this. The character isn't becoming black. The characters the same, she's just played by a black actress. That doesn't change the character. That's why we call it acting. She's just playing a role. Tom Holland isn't Italian, but I noticed you didn't bring up him changing the character.

Do you feel equally uneasy when you watch old movies in which white actors portray non-white characters?

Or what about fiction, like "The Hunger Games," in which Katniss is described as "olive-skninned" in the book, but was played by Jennifer Lawrence?

Have you ever expressed your discomfort at the portrayals of Jesus as a white dude with blue eyes all over the place?

I'm not addressing you personally. But those who are vocal about stuff like this are sheer hypocrites.

Spoiler alert, Tom Holland is actually playing Juliet.

"towards a member of our company"

This is the actual quote, not from Variety.

They're trying to minimise the additional abuse she will get because of this story.