The fact that directors would rather cast cis people as trans characters, allistics as autistic characters, thin people as fat characters etc. instead of hiring actors who actually belong to the category isn't because no actors who fit these categories exist.

It's completely intentional. There are tones of talented actors belonging to marginalized communities but they are actually specifically overlooked and sometimes even blacklisted. Directors care more about who will appeal.

That's why we always see lightskin actors as characters or real life people who were dark skin. It isn't because there's no dark skin actors with talent that meets or exceeds the lightskin actors they actually used.

The excuse is always "but do they have the same talent???" and it's like... We know damn well what it's like to be skipped over during a job interview for a lighter, white, cis, thinner, neurotypical person despite our qualifications.

Job discrimination happens in film too. Let's not sit here and pretend we suddenly forgot that this is a thing or that hollywood is somehow exempt.

Maybe learn to listen to marginalized communities, esp fat folk considering what's currently going on, instead of always being hardheaded and speaking over them and shit talking to them.

Ain't nobody dragging or discrediting v*ola's career and talent by asking why the hell directors chose to put her through what they did to cast her in the movie instead of hiring an actual fat actress. V*ola isn't the only talented dark skin actress in hollywood.