And a male poc lead maybe Dev patel. I'd love to see Laura Harrier and Dev Patel star together, i feel like their energies would really suit the two leads from the book.
We are already going to have two white leads for the adaptation of beach read ( btw excellent casting choice , i feel it really suits January and Gus ) and we already had two white leads for people we meet on vacation. So i think it would have been nice to have POC leads for you deserve each other ( one of my favourite romance books ).
In the book you deserve each other , i don't think their races are specifically mentioned so i feel like producers can take some creative liberty on that and even if they were mentioned, they could take creative liberty if their race had no bearing on the story.
I was not cool with Heathcliff being white in the recent adaptation of Wuthering Heights because his race is specifically important to the story, without that, it loses the depth the original book had.
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while there are plenty of romances I’d love to see POC actors lead, I do think it would be really hard to write Naomi’s character as a WOC, particularly a black woman, without it tiptoeing into stereotypes about angry black women.