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So from ur PoV, it would also then be fine if for example a white actor would play MLK in a movie about him?
The difference is that MLK is a real person whose appearance we know.
Helen is a fictional myth. Go find a real depiction of her appearance (not a stylized one, as in art, which is an interpretation).
I won't be happy until a big Nigerian woman plays Sir Winston Churchill
He would just be a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
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