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Amandla Stenberg attends the Los Angeles premiere of 'Dear Evan Hansen' at Walt Disney Concert Hall on September 22, 2021, in Los Angeles.reported that Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “Children of Blood and Bone,” based on Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling fantasy novel, has cast four familiar faces in the lead roles: Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Tosin Cole and Amandla Stenberg . The cast also includes veteran actors Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba, Lashana Lynch and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Why is Amandla in it? Why not an dark skinned Black femme instead? Amari is a fully black brown skin woman who faces colorism in the books. Tomi Adeyemi casting Amandla Stenberg, a white skinned biracial actress, to play her is truly disgusting Stenberg has yet to make a statement about her “Children of Blood and Bone” casting. HuffPost reached out to her representatives for comment.
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