A few months ago, I came across this post about typical Tumblr fancasts and decided to give out some alternates to Tumblr’s go-to POC facelciams that actually have resources. As someone who loves Zendaya a lot, I want to make it clear that the criticism for all the women listed at the source (Zendaya, Zoe Kravitz, Willow Smith, Amandla Stenberg) is that they’re constantly fancast as black characters that were not light-skinned in the source material - not that they don’t deserve recognition. So I’ve focused on celebrating darker women in general in this post.
A few months ago, I came across this post about typical Tumblr fancasts and decided to give out a bunch of alternate faceclaims you could use in place of the twenty or so POC celebrities that people actually know have resource. Because I’m incredibly lazy, I’ve only done one post about this so far but now I’m recommitting so here we go.
ANTHONY MACKIE (1978, ACTOR) [African-American]
ISAIAH MUSTAFA (1974, ACTOR / FORMER ATHLETE) [African-American]
CHADWICK BOSEMAN (1976, ACTOR) [Sierra Leonean]
MAHERSHALA ALI (1974, ACTOR) [African-American]
DAVID HAREWOOD (1965, ACTOR) [Afro-Barbadian]
TERRY CREWS (1968, ACTOR / FORMER ATHLETE) [African-American]
MIKE COLTER (1976, ACTOR) [African-American]
Below the cut you will find over 20 additional male, black faceclaims that are not Idris Elba with resources.
ANDRE BRAUGHER (1962, ACTOR) [African-American]
ANDRE HOLLAND (1979, ACTOR) [African-American]
BJ BRITT (1982, ACTOR) [African-American]
BRANDON JAY MCLAREN (1981, ACTOR) [Afro-Canadian]
CHIWTEL EJIOFOR (1977, ACTOR) [Nigerian (Igbo)]
CHRISTOPHER JACKSON (1975, ACTOR & SINGER) [African-American]
CRAIG ROBINSON (1971, ACTOR) [African-American]
DAMON WAYANS JR. (1982, ACTOR) [African-American & Caucasian]
DAVEED DIGGS (1982, ACTOR & RAPPER) [African-American & Ashkenazi Jewish]
DON CHEADLE (1964, ACTOR) [African-American]
DWAYNE JOHNSON (1972, ACTOR & FORMER WRESTLER) [Afro-Canadian, Irish, & Samoan]
JESSE WILLIAMS (1981, ACTOR) [African-American, Seminole, & Swedish]
JOHN LEGEND (1978, SINGER) [African-American]
JORDAN PEELE (1979, ACTOR) [African-American & English]
JUSSIE SMOLLETT (1982, ACTOR & SINGER] [African-American, First Nations, Irish, Louisiana Creole, Polish, & Russian]
KHARY PAYTON (1972, ACTOR) [African-American]
LENNIE JAMES (1965, ACTOR) [Afro-Trinidadian]
LESLIE ODOM JR. (1981, ACTOR & SINGER) [African-American]
After coming across this post on my dash, I’ve decided to do a series of posts outlining alternates to overused faceclaims and/or fancasts. Eventually I will probably expand this into alternate character castings (looking at you Disney fancasts), etc. So if you have any suggestions or comments please don’t hesitate to approach me!
SIDHARTH MALHOTRA (1985, BOLLYWOOD ACTOR)
RAHUL KOHLI (1985, ACTOR)
VARUN DHAWAN (1987, BOLLYWOOD ACTOR)
MANISH DAYAL (1983, ACTOR)
SURAJ SHARMA (1993, ACTOR)
RAYMOND ABLACK (1989, ACTOR)
ARJUN KAPOOR (1985, BOLLYWOOD ACTOR)
Below you will find over twenty additional male, Indian faceclaims that are not Dev Patel with resources.
