There's been some drama lately on the internet and elsewhere about some unconventional casting choices in film and TV.

Fear can be fuel, let your fear drive you to be bigger.

Loud out, the sky itself will not limit you.

That's actress Jody Turner Smith, British and Jamaican playing the doomed wife of Henry VIII in the British miniseries Ann Bolin.

And you can probably imagine what some of the reaction has sounded like.

I think it's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

Why don't you get a white actress?

Here's another one.

A play and remake of the popular cartoon Scooby-Doo is causing controversy over the casting of one of its main characters.

Indian American actress Mindy Kaling is playing Velma in Scooby-Doo

and British Indian actor Dev Patel plays the nephew of King Arthur in the movie The Green Night.

I fear I'm on the moon for great news.

Patel also starred in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield last year.

A role he told the film's director he was surprised to get.

I told Armando when I first met him I was like normally you know the only opportunity I'd get would be holding a tray in the side of the room.

In a world like this so for you to give me such a substantial role you know a real opportunity here that means so much.

Patel told NPR he and director Armando Inuchi spoke about the success of Broadway's Hamilton

where black and brown actors play white figures from history on stage.

The audience's ability to just look past the actors and really key into the story you know that's what Armando's initial pitch was to me was you know we can do it and fit it to why can't we do it in film.

Consider this in one sense it does seem like more gatekeepers in Hollywood are thinking that way.

Casting actors in parts they wouldn't have played in the past.

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