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The Importance of Mixed Casting in Films

Mark Haines, a father of two black daughters, says the film had an impact on him and his girls. The normalization of ethnicity blind casting is to be celebrated, he writes. 'I sat next to my girls holding hands in the cinema feeling better about the world' Says Mark didn't see the need for a new version of the mermaid but did praise the mixed casting as it was "vigorous"

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