‘It was her desire that we wouldn’t cast a caucasian male in this,’ says director Xavier Dolan on the choice of The Wire’s Tristan Wilds as her esteem interest Xavier Dolan has spoken about the inspiration behind Adele’s video for Hello, explaining that casting The Wire’s Tristan Wilds was a deliberate attempt to address “police brutality” in the US.
In an interview with Vulture, or the French-Canadian film-maker said that while it was his plan to cast Wilds,Adele had specified that the esteem interest in the video should not be played by a white actor. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com