Here’s a rant: I love Avantika as Rapunzel as much as the next person However I’m
glad she didn’t get cast because Disney has a vile tendency to cast women of color in what can definitely be catalogued as forced inclusivity because the moment they’re cast, Disney shoves them out into the world and into the jaws of the press without a support system. They continue to allow for these women and girls to be harassed because of their racial and ethnic background while they sit back and do nothing. Under those conditions I’d rather we got no representation at all. Keep casting white girls or do better in protecting woc.