While it is true that “Cosmopolitan places have always been cosmopolitan”, would it make sense for film makers in the future to cast an Irish guy as the Mayor of Tokyo? Or for them to create a movie about the “Kami of Tokyo” and then have every named character played by white folk, except for the villains?

Dredd was awesome. That is all.

...the problem being that these migrants got lighter over generation due to adapting to areas with less sunlight and need for Vitamin D. Persians of that time and region were most certainly of darker complexion than branches that colonized other areas to the North where we see . From a purely scientific perspective,…

That’s kind of the problem though: There are actors out there of every ethnicity and damn good ones at that, but they can’t get roles even when the character called for is explicitly of their ethnicity. This isn’t about losing out to fair competition. This is about Hollywood having a pattern of passing over non-white…

So, let me summarize your post: “This doesn’t affect people like me, so why do we care? #AllCastedRacesMatter”