Is this from 7 years ago?
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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Yes, but Star Wars has been very white. That’s long before Disney.
Lucas is married to a black woman, Star Wars in general is full of aliens representing, ahem, different races, Star Wars 1980 and 1983 have Lando, and Star Wars prequels have a few black people on screen.
With Star Wars 1977 the story was that most of the people in the background were hired from the union in London when filming, probably not many black chaps there then. Or so I've read recently.
About interracial relationships - yes, not much of that on screen, if we don't count the heavily implied Leia-Jabba pairing.
With Star Wars 1977 the story was that most of the people in the background were hired from the union in London when filming, probably not many black chaps there then. Or so I’ve read recently.
There were plenty of black people in london back then, but maybe not in the acting union. Not sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_people#The_.22Windrush_generation.22
Well, I suppose there were also limitations to casting black people as Imperial military personnel (those people reminiscent of the British Empire and Nazis) and Tatooine, being somewhat reminiscent of Texas with Middle-Eastern additional vibes, too may not have been too suitable. But ... whatever.
I don't know, maybe Lucas even was racist sometime around 1977, but by 1980 no more. Who the hell knows.