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'Fantastic Four' director Josh Trank claims he got 'pretty heavy pushback' for wanting to cast black actress
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foxnews.comDirector Josh Trank is opening up about his experience working on "Fantastic Four." The director recently sat down for a virtual interview with First Cut, via Geeks of Color, where he was asked whether he considered casting a black woman to play Sue Storm, a popular superheroine from Marvel comics known as the Invisible Woman.
Trank, 36, said that there were "controversial conversations" that took place when he was advocating to casting that role "I was mostly interested in a black Sue Storm ...
but when you're dealing with a studio on a massive movie like that, everybody wants to keep an open mind to who the big stars are going to be," said Trank. "When It came down to it, I found a lot of pretty heavy pushback on casting a black woman in.
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