Great actor, but yeah. Not a fan of changing gender/color of established characters.
Nothing in the game has supported the race of any character actually NEEDING to be the role or something. ie not really "established", its more interchangeable. What is interchangeable btw is based on the person that created the work.
So if I make a book with a stranger saving a random person and in the ending of the 3rd book you find out they are related, the race must be the same as its established that its a key part of the book.....
Nothing in The Last Of Us regarding Joel or Ellie is based on race and the person that actually created the series would know this best......its their work, not yours....sooooo if the actual creator was seeking him, its likely because nowhere in the series does Joels race play a significant role. If we find out that in a prequel that he was part of some mainly white biker gang then ok lol As a artist myself, when I write or create, if I intend to make the sex or race of a person something specific for a certain reason, sometimes that reason is revealed later on, thus...only I know why character A or B was a certain race or sex.
not you.....
you didn't make the work, thus you don't know if they "need" to be 1 sex or 1 race etc.
eyesabitdull
"major shake ups" nah. Nothing in The Last Of Us ever really focused on Joels race....like zero, that isn't a shake up. It would be like you crying over the actors fucking height talking about "mAjOr shaKez UpZ" when nothing in the game is tied to that, ie he wasn't a former basketball player to make his height a significant thing.
Nothing in The Last Of Us exist regarding Joels race to say it MUST be 1 thing as his race isn't a massive factor in the series. I'd argue the fact that the person that created the series was even seeking such an actor proves they had no intent to make his race play a factor.
So....I'd argue the person that created that series knows its universe better then you or I. For all you know, they looked at many people to play Joel and Tommy simply matching their races as they are related.