Racial Controversy Breaks Out Over Depardieu Playing Dumas

“Black actors and campaigners are upset that the white film star [Gérard Depardieu] was cast as Alexandre Dumas, a French national hero with mixed African blood. The blond, blue-eyed Depardieu sports curly hair and darker skin to play the creator of The Three Musketeers in [the new film] L’Autre Dumas.