When a tweet from Deadline announced that actors Susan Wokoma and Ronny Chieng were cast in Super Simple Love Story, a new romantic comedy pilot on CBS, it raised hopes that the network was making strides in representing interracial romance on TV.
But the actors featured in the tweet were not cast as the romantic leads of the show and instead have supporting roles as friends of the series' actual romantic leads — played by actors Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton.
On Twitter, many people expressed upset that they were led to believe a network show would feature a romance between a black woman and a Chinese-Malaysian man. Many pointed out that casting people of color as supporting, non-romantic leads is a common formula for shows that tend to focus on romances between white characters. Read more...
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