Storm & Starfire Colorism
How closely does an actor need to resemble a character or historical figure in order to portray them on the Silver Screen? Seems to depend on color.

Steven Rosenblum is an American film editor with over twenty feature film credits dating from 1987. He has had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Edward Zwick and has edited all of his films since Glory (1989). Rosenblum is a 1976 graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory. His collaborator Edward Zwick was a 1975 graduate. Among the films edited by Rosenblum are Dangerous Beauty (1998), X-Men (2000), and Failure to Launch (2006). Rosenblum has won two American Cinema Editors "Eddie Awards" for Glory and for Braveheart (1995). He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (for Glory, Braveheart, and Blood Diamond). Rosenblum has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors and is the 2011 recipient of the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal of the American Film Institute Conservatory. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Rosenblum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
How closely does an actor need to resemble a character or historical figure in order to portray them on the Silver Screen? Seems to depend on color.
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