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ProZD Race-Based Casting Controversy - Reaping and sowing.
![HokutoNoTism @kenshirotism The past few weeks have been FILLED with reaping and sowing. Dude literally campaigned for "voice actors need to be the same race as the characters", and is shocked that it went badly for him. if your entire main cast is all White and you have one token side character who can apparently just be any type of Asian ever, this is not a level playing field. 10 1,554 1793 SungWon Cho @ProZD-14m this is not new, for another show recently with a large cast of characters, i was only sent the audition sides for the character who...exclusively speaks Mandarin. i don't speak Mandarin. 18.5K C it's demoralizing and as much as i love voiceover, the future looks bleaker every day 98 13:30 928 lil 18.9K SungWon Cho @ProZD-11m to be clear, this was not my agent's decision, they have sent me plenty of white characters before and have been nothing but supportive, this is what they were told by the people in 4:45 PM - Oct 23, 2023.413.8K Views 197 1,366 looking through the rest, i told my agent "hey i'm happy to read for this, but can i...read for some of these others?" to which i was told "all of those characters are drawn as White, so no" 12:48 PM-23 Oct 23.67K Views 284 Reposts 26 Quotes 3,003 Likes 65 Bookmarks SungWon Cho @ProZD-20m Replying to @ProZD to add extra insult to injury, the character i got sent was labeled "Middle Eastern, South, East, or Southeast Asian" because you know...that's all the same, right? you can just lump them all into one 8,518 α 756 β] μ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/688/125/92e.png)
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![HokutoNoTism @kenshirotism The past few weeks have been FILLED with reaping and sowing. Dude literally campaigned for "voice actors need to be the same race as the characters", and is shocked that it went badly for him. if your entire main cast is all White and you have one token side character who can apparently just be any type of Asian ever, this is not a level playing field. 10 1,554 1793 SungWon Cho @ProZD-14m this is not new, for another show recently with a large cast of characters, i was only sent the audition sides for the character who...exclusively speaks Mandarin. i don't speak Mandarin. 18.5K C it's demoralizing and as much as i love voiceover, the future looks bleaker every day 98 13:30 928 lil 18.9K SungWon Cho @ProZD-11m to be clear, this was not my agent's decision, they have sent me plenty of white characters before and have been nothing but supportive, this is what they were told by the people in 4:45 PM - Oct 23, 2023.413.8K Views 197 1,366 looking through the rest, i told my agent "hey i'm happy to read for this, but can i...read for some of these others?" to which i was told "all of those characters are drawn as White, so no" 12:48 PM-23 Oct 23.67K Views 284 Reposts 26 Quotes 3,003 Likes 65 Bookmarks SungWon Cho @ProZD-20m Replying to @ProZD to add extra insult to injury, the character i got sent was labeled "Middle Eastern, South, East, or Southeast Asian" because you know...that's all the same, right? you can just lump them all into one 8,518 α 756 β] μ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/688/125/92e.png "Reaping and sowing.")
![SungWon Cho @ProZD i got an audition for [Prominent Cartoon] where i was sent just the Asian character, looking through the rest, i told my agent "hey i'm happy to read for this, but can i...read for some of these others?" to which i was told "all of those characters are drawn as White, so no" 12:48 PM - Oct 23, 2023 236.8K Views 149 Post your reply 22 915 SungWon Cho @ProZD-Th to add extra insult to injury, the character i got sent was labeled "Middle Eastern, South, East, or Southeast Asian" because you know...that's all the same, right? you can just lump them all into one 20 my agent told me that this is just how some Major Studios are doing things now 186 9,086 11 SungWon Cho @ProZD - Th naysayers will go "OH DON'T YOU WANT AUTHENTIC CASTING???" 1293 14 4,472 249 if your entire main cast is all White and you have one token side character who can apparently just be any type of Asian ever, this is not a level playing field. 113 4,823 53.3K 3,403 SungWon Cho @ProZD.Th this is not new, for another show recently with a large cast of characters, i was only sent the audition sides for the character who...exclusively speaks Mandarin. i don't speak Mandarin. .β. Reply il 54.2K 3,068 it's demoralizing and as much as i love voiceover, the future looks bleaker every day il 67.9K *** 59.9K SungWon Cho @ProZD - Th to be clear, this was not my agent's decision, they have sent me plenty of white characters before and have been nothing but supportive, this is what they were told by the people in charge of casting that show 182 ... δΌ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/688/333/b6a.jpeg "ProZD Race-Based Casting Controversy")
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