Pete Buttigieg, who is running for President of the United States, recently weighed in on the rumors that Marvel Studios are looking to recast Magneto and Professor X with black actors.
Buttigieg was asked byTMZ about the recent rumors and how he feels about diversity and inclusion in our stories when the roles are a traditional white role
Buttigieg responded, “I don’t think there is anything about the role that makes it white.” He continued, “Look, certainly the actors who portrayed Magneto and Professor X in the past were brilliant, but it’s not because they were white. And it doesn’t have to be them forever.”
He then made a broad general statement on comic book films, “Look, one of the beauties of making comic books into movies is you can reimagine them constantly. And there is nothing intrinsically white about any of those character roles."
Buttigieg would then lump in James Bond along with Magneto and Professor X and comic book characters in general.
"Whether we are talking about James Bond or whether we are talking about comic books it makes sense for the portrayal of these characters to reflect the amazing cultural diversity of the country, our country, producing these films.”
He concluded, “I just care about whether it’s going to be good. I believe they are up to that in producing a new film and would love to see that kind of diversity.”
There are barely any good black actors though. Fishburne, Denzel, Ali, and the guy from selma are the only elite ones
Brody Green
Jewish people are white.
Leo Hernandez
Nice bait, here’s a (You)
Jackson Miller
The pic while being posted for bait, Stan Lee did say he made both of those characters based on both of those guys. Magneto was based on Malcolm X by any means necessary separatism and Xavier based on MLK integration and peace philosophy.
Julian Rodriguez
Ben Shapiro is a white man. While his religion kay be judaism his race is white. Do you actually think Jewish is a race?
Jack Miller
Nothing about Blade is black either yet they are not willing to do white Blade. Fucking hate this, why can't they stick to comic roots? Nick Fury was already annoying enough because they had to use that one alternative version that is black for the sake of it. Ignoring the fact that he was like THIS for few decades. Do you fucking realize how hard it will be to bring classic Nick Fury is 90% of normalfags and pleb doesn't even realise this?
