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spanky1 posted...

You know I generally don't really care about race changing characters, but it honestly is pretty damn fascinating that Hollywood really does replace red headed characters with black people. I mean it's just so specific that it's odd. It's like they see red hair and then it triggers this thought process subconsciously or something.

There's a definitely a pattern.

If I were to venture to guess, I think it's because redheads are usually stereotyped as being "the sexy one(s)."

When a redheaded White woman becomes a Black woman, there's normally a secondary change to the character that makes her less attractive than she was before. She becomes withdrawn when she used to be outgoing. She becomes a nerd when she used to be the girl next door. She's dressed up in body armor when she used to wear something figure-fitting. In that regard, it becomes a two-for-one special. The casting is more inclusive and they've eliminated the character who might be seen as a liability.

I hate to go off on a "Hollywood is making characters less sexy" tangent, but I think those secondary changes are the driving motive as to why redheads are usually the ones getting hit with the diversity ball. That, or maybe they got tired of making blond characters Black and decided to start tagging redheads with it.