Whatever’s going on in your guy’s private threads makes no sense to me. Maybe you should all stop being in private threads?
It’s more fun guessing what they’re talking about though.
I’m imagining Christopher Reeve in whiteface.
There was a discussion about Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about a black Superman. It was suggested the reason why Superman being cast by a black person is a bad idea, is because Superman’s appearance is iconic. The importance of making the character on film recognizable and instantly believable and such.
Then someone had the idea of hiring a black actor for the role (to be inclusive of minorities) but to use realistic white makeup to keep to the character’s expected appearance. That idea was just about universally panned. I cited RDJ from Tropic Thunder as a white person realistically made up as black, but that was dismissed as deliberately humorous. I couldn’t disagree, having not seen the film.
Somewhere in there, it was pointed out that there are in fact black Supermen (John Henry Irons’ “Man of Steel”, and Superman from Earth-23), and that just about ended the discussion with people saying Kimmel is ignorant about the existence of such characters.
I also said that more black characters should be created rather than taking current iconic characters and making them black. I likened it to rebooting Star Wars and casting a black Luke Skywalker. But at least one person said they didn’t understand why whether someone was famous or not would be important to race-swapping them.