“This is very stupid”: 3 years ago, this actor chose Batman’s game, he responds today to the unhappy fans of his casting

In Batman and for the first time in the audiovisual work “Live”, Commissioner Gordon portrays Jeffrey Wright, African American actress. During his actor’s announcement, the fans’s feedback was divided, some of them believing that Gordon’s character, who was always white, had to be like that. Reflex “A racist” According to his interpreter.

“It’s really very stupid”

“Subject Gordon is from another level”Wright told the microphone Collider. “Currently, and I believe more and more that I can’t wait to come back, but I’m really fascinated by how to discuss our current time, taking these roles by black actors. It’s really so stupid and racist. “

“It is really next to the board, and so that I am confusing to not admit that the evolution of these films reflects the evolution of society. To some extent, it breaks this franchise to prevent it from keeping it in the cultural reality of 1939 when comic books were first published.”

For Wright, to come to the modern era of Batman and any Batman film, it should be able to choose any actor for the characters in this world, even if it means the outrage of the representation he originally has in comics:

“These stories I belonged just like any child”

“Any Gotham that appears in the contemporary film of Batman Saga, which is intended to be authentic.

Moreover, for the actor who grew up when reading comic book, Commissioner Gordon belongs to him as well as fans:

“I have the feeling that these stories belong to me just like anyone.