This is really dicey and the comments went into that--despite the whole 'one drop' rule, it's way more complicated than that. One of the commenters argued that a call for Caucasian actresses (how the call was worded, BTW, nto my wording) would exclude people who felt they had "too much" NA blood. I don't know about that. District 12 is pretty clearly characterized as Appalachian--which means predominantly white with maybe some NA blood mixed in. West Virginia is one of the whitest states in the US (Census stats, so self identification). Of course, I'm coming at it from a perspective that would identify those features as "white"--it would describe both of my sisters.
When it comes down to it, though, I think the producers/casting agents landed on Jennifer Lawrence because of Winter's Bone and that's the end of the story. She would have beaten out less identifiably white actresses on that basis alone.
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Date: 2012-03-27 03:15 pm (UTC)When it comes down to it, though, I think the producers/casting agents landed on Jennifer Lawrence because of Winter's Bone and that's the end of the story. She would have beaten out less identifiably white actresses on that basis alone.