Woody Allen has addressed the lack of diversity in his movies, insisting, “I always cast the person who fits the part most believably in my mind’s eye.”The filmmaker opened up about a common criticism of his work in his new memoir, Apropos of Nothing, where he insists the commonly-spotted flaw has nothing to do with racism.“I’ve taken some criticism over the years that I didn’t use African-Americans in my movies,” he writes. “And while affirmative action can be a fine solution in many instances, it does not work when it comes to casting.“I always cast the person who fits the part most believably in my mind’s eye.” Allen goes on to insist he has “always been a typical liberal and sometimes maybe even radical,” noting: “I marched in
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