Importance of actors being the same race as their characters U.S. 2019, by ethnicity
This statistic shows the level of importance of actors being the same race as the characters they portray in the United States as of May 2019, sorted by ethnicity. The findings reveal that 26 percent of African Americans felt that it was very important that actors are the same race as the characters they portray, compared to just 15 percent of White respondents who said the same.