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26 March 2012
Racist Hunger Games Fans Are Disappointed
Casting Cinna, Rue and Thresh with black actors has made a lot of fans very disappointed. Cinna, who was not really depicted in the book, could be any ethnicity, so it really doesn't matter. Suzanne refers to Rue as having "dark brown skin and eyes" along with Thresh. This depiction could be a really tan person, Native American, etc but Gary Ross chose to cast black actors. I didn't think anything about that when watching the film, personally, I think the actors fit the characters pretty well. Apparently other fans of the book didn't think the same though; here's the article.
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