“For a book I thought wouldn’t get published due to its subject matter, I am absolutely thrilled that THUG is even being made into a movie,” she wrote.ĭuring 2018’s Essence Festival, Thomas elaborated more on Stenberg’s casting, saying she always imagined Starr as Stenberg.
Last year, Thomas responded to attacks related to Stenberg’s casting on Twitter by writing she was not responsible for the casting decision. If I saw that, as a teen, it would be very disheartening, a little damaging.” “It was a very specific description in the book, and to see that the actress is not that description, that would annoy me as a reader, especially if I was a teen. She continued, “…I obviously still think it’s going to be a wonderful movie, because I think Amandla Stenberg’s a great actress, but I also think there are plenty of other actresses who would be wonderful in this role as well,” she said. And the fact that Fox was like, ‘We’re going to have to lighten your illustration, we’re going to have to change the hair.’ In the movie, the illustration fades into the character, and I gave them the rights to change the illustration. “I was hoping it would be a very brown-skinned actress, because there’s so little opportunities in these big movies for darker-skinned actresses,” she said. Despite the positive buzz surrounding the film adaptation of Angie Thomas’ book The Hate U Give, colorism has come up once again as an issue, hitting both the creation of the book’s cover art as well as the casting of Amandla Stenberg as lead character Starr.ĭebra Cartwright, the cover art illustrator, said to Vulture she “literally just followed exactly what they said in the book.” However, Cartwright admitted that she “wasn’t exactly thrilled” with Stenberg’s casting “because of the colorism in Hollywood and everything.”
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