| > Curious that it's American Gods but Neil Gaiman is British as are the two lead characters ... leaving only about 15% of the cast being properly USian.
It's presumably American Gods because Neil felt that was the best setting for the story he wanted to tell. Neil being British is irrelevant.
He has described it as being a book about immigrants, so it's entirely appropriate to have multiple nationalities reflected in the cast.
And yet your 15% statistic is more than a tad inaccurate:
If you want to be racist you can go ahead and exclude people that moved to American as children - just because Pablo Schreiber and Yetide_Badaki have both lived, studied and worked in the country for over 25 years, they're clearly not proper USians. Here's the pie chart that puts them entirely where they belong:
That puts it at 48% of proper Americans playing the significant characters. In a series based on a book about immigrants. Very curious. |
