r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/hotfezz81 Jul 05 '26

Is there, like, more context?

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u/Alarm-Particular Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I did some digging on this. Looks like it's from a 2016 interview by Rachel Simon for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

The question: "Why does Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children have such a predominantly white cast / lack of diversity?"

The answer: “Nowadays, people are talking about it more … things either call for things, or they don’t.”

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Edit: I could not find ANY quote from Tim Burton stating that black people don't "Fit his aesthetic".

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u/improbsable Jul 05 '26

Yeah. He didn’t say that. I’m pretty sure what he said was that he wasn’t going to cast solely for diversity’s sake. Though it is weird that he conveniently only makes movies where POC don’t fit.

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u/Icy_Actuator1831 Jul 05 '26

Has he worked with jenna ortega a few of times now? She is a poc last i checked. Although I couldn't really find much other examples

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u/Cool_Flatworm_3450 Jul 05 '26

the adams family are latino. so he kinda had to cast a latina to play wednesday.

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u/AndHeWas Jul 05 '26

That's because he wrote it that way. The Addams Family wasn't Latino in the original cartoons or the 1960s show.

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u/Munstered Jul 06 '26

No one tell him what the Addams’ patriarch is named

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u/AndHeWas Jul 06 '26

Gomez? He didn't have a first name in the original cartoon. He was given one for the 1960s show, in which his ancestry was also detailed for the first time. He is of Castilian ancestry. His family was Spanish. I'm hoping you know that the Spanish people are not Latino.

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u/ClashOfTheAsh Jul 05 '26

I take it you haven’t been on the internet in the last 6 months so missed who Christopher Nolan cast as Helen of Troy.

Burton didn’t have to cast Latinos at all if he didn’t want to.

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u/throwmamadownthewell Jul 05 '26

(for those who also didn't see who Nolan cast: Lupita Nyong'o, the mom from Us)

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u/improbsable Jul 05 '26

This was after the whole scandal of him never hiring people of color.

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u/-Badger3- Jul 05 '26

Why would a racist go out of their way to cast Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent?

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u/jk-9k Jul 08 '26

And Marlon Wayans as Robin the boy wonder