As for Shirley Temple, I wouldn't mind the fact that the new kid: a) appears about 5 years old rather than about 3, and b) Has a truly horrific wig, if it weren't for c) she's Caucasian. Hello, child who is supposed to be plausible as the offspring of an Asian-looking character played by an actor of Korean descent and a white-looking character played by a mixed-race actor who can easily pass for white.
Athena being Hera's biological mother is kind of a key point, so maybe they could cast a child who looks like she could possibly be related to Athena. This is Vancouver, for frak's sake. I see half-Asian children almost every day just within in my neighbourhood, and my neighbourhood's ethnic distribution is pretty typical of the whole city's demographics. If I saw Grace Park with Hera #3 on the street and had no context except visuals, I'd probably assume Park was the kid's nanny. Which may be a racist assumption, but in Vancouver neighbourhoods significantly richer than mine, the very posh streets are crawling with Asian women (mostly Filipina) pushing white kids in strollers, and I don't think I've ever come across a situation where the woman DIDN'T turn out to be the nanny.
Where was I? Oh yeah. I admit that the kid is cute, but she's too big for the age she's playing, and she's the wrong ethnicity. And while they can fix the awful Shirley Temple wig, they can't shrink her or change her epicanthic folds. If it was just a size thing, I guess I could fanwank it as pop tarts shooting up because of the amazing nutritional qualities of algae. But how hard would it be to cast a kid who looks like the possible offspring of Helo and Athena? They managed it the first AND second times they cast the role. I mean, Hera #1 was a gloomy kid, but at least she looked the part. And Hera #2 was a lovely mixture of adorable and creepy, as well as being age appropriate and looks-appropriate.
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Athena being Hera's biological mother is kind of a key point, so maybe they could cast a child who looks like she could possibly be related to Athena. This is Vancouver, for frak's sake. I see half-Asian children almost every day just within in my neighbourhood, and my neighbourhood's ethnic distribution is pretty typical of the whole city's demographics. If I saw Grace Park with Hera #3 on the street and had no context except visuals, I'd probably assume Park was the kid's nanny. Which may be a racist assumption, but in Vancouver neighbourhoods significantly richer than mine, the very posh streets are crawling with Asian women (mostly Filipina) pushing white kids in strollers, and I don't think I've ever come across a situation where the woman DIDN'T turn out to be the nanny.
Where was I? Oh yeah. I admit that the kid is cute, but she's too big for the age she's playing, and she's the wrong ethnicity. And while they can fix the awful Shirley Temple wig, they can't shrink her or change her epicanthic folds. If it was just a size thing, I guess I could fanwank it as pop tarts shooting up because of the amazing nutritional qualities of algae. But how hard would it be to cast a kid who looks like the possible offspring of Helo and Athena? They managed it the first AND second times they cast the role. I mean, Hera #1 was a gloomy kid, but at least she looked the part. And Hera #2 was a lovely mixture of adorable and creepy, as well as being age appropriate and looks-appropriate.