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Will voiced by Caleb McLaughlin is in Goat directed by Tyree Dillihay

Running time is 1 hour 40 minutes

Film is what you get if you took souped-up Space Jam and plopped it into anthropomorphized society of Zootopia

Young Will is unexpectedly signed to professional team to play alongside his idol Jett Fillmore

Story has few surprises and mostly rudimentary emotional concepts but is enlivened by artwork with colorful texture and dynamic animation style

Goat is rated PG

Stephen Curry lends voice to animated film

Film treats every basketball game like roller coaster action set piece

James Van Der Beek let fans into his real life as a father of six

James Van Der Beek later played Mox in Varsity Blues

After Odessa A’zion was hired for the forthcoming adaptation of Holly Brickley’s novel “Deep Cuts” there was an uproar because her character is described as half-Jewish half-Mexican and A’zion has no

Nelly is played by the Vietnamese American actress Hong Chau and Shazad Latif who is of Pakistani descent plays Edgar Linton.

“I think the thing is everyone who loves this book has such a personal connection to it and so you can only ever make the movie that you sort of imagined yourself when you read it” she said.

Speaking at the Brontë Women’s Writing Festival Fennell said she thought Elordi “looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff” on the first copy she read.

Fennell’s version does away with references to Heathcliff’s race instead largely focusing on his tortured romance with Cathy.

Still the cast doesn’t lack diversity entirely.

I felt Emily was not committing exactly she was playing with her own difference as a female.

A notable exception is Andrea Arnold’s 2012 adaptation in which the adult Heathcliff was played by the Black actor James Howson.

In an interview with NPR Arnold said “In the book it was clear he wasn’t white-skinned”.

Oberon was South Asian but hid that to ascend in Hollywood at the time.