Mar. 29th, 2009

jmtorres: (uncertainty)
So, being a Chuck fan, I went looking for more images of my favorite actors from the show, like you do, and I discovered something odd.

Zachary Levi looks considerably less "white" out of character.

Okay, here's a promo image from the show, where Chuck and Sarah are clearly supposed to be equally pasty white.

Here's essentially a candid of Levi and Strahovski at a premiere, where you can see the difference in their skin tones.

Here's some magazine photo shoot stuff that are probably just as 'shopped as the promo pic in various ways, just apparently not tonally.

Seriously: wtf? Why would the makers of Chuck try to wash him out? He's so pretty just as he is. The only conclusion I can come to is just morally repugnant, but it looks like they thought he didn't look white enough to meet some kind of racist standard for being the protagonist of a mainstream television show not marketed to a specific ethnic demographic ETA and here I am editing for clarity: I am ascribing a motivation I cannot verify, however: the attempt, via make-up and lighting, to make him look whiter, regardless of conscious or unconscious motivation, makes my skin crawl. Making people look lighter for TV implies that being darker is bad, whether you intend that implication or not. /ETA
Just. What.

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