r/CriticalDrinker

Tomi Adeyemi is publicly distancing herself from the upcoming film adaptation of her novel Children of Blood and Bone. She says that she refuses to support, promote or even watch the movie and has told someone involved in it never to contact her or say her name in public again.

You can't win: people of color say there is nothing wrong with black actors taking over white (even historically white roles) but when it's a black character described in a book as dark skinned, a light skinned black actor isn't good enough?
I know that this doesn't mean that everybody who agrees with the first part necessarily agrees with the second. But there has to be enough people who do and that's just feels hypocritical to me. A historic character can look nothing like the actual person and that's fine. But other actors have to have the exact same skin tone as a fictional character?

"Amanda Stenberg has officially responded to backlash from some fans against her casting in the forthcoming* *Children of Blood and Bone film adaptation.
The actress recently took to TikTok to address some of the online discourse about her role as Princess Amari in the movie, based on the novel by New York Times bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi.
Since the character is described as having "dark copper skin" and Stenberg is of a lighter complexion, fans of the book have accused her of stealing roles from darker-skinned women. 
Stenberg's response
"I just want to take this moment to fully address, in video format, this perception that exists of me — that I steal roles from dark-skinned women," Stenberg said. "This year was mostly defined for me, honestly, by contending with what it felt like to receive racist death threats just for existing in the Star Wars universe, and that was a really difficult thing for me to move through. But, honestly, it feels so much more painful for me to feel like I'm at odds with my own community.""