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Dakota Fanning responds to backlash on her playing a white Muslim Ethiopian woman
There is a movie adaptation in the works for the novel, Sweetness in my Belly and Dakota Fanning has been roped in for the lead.
The actor will be playing a white Ethiopian Muslim woman and yes, that does sound odd, which is why many could not comprehend the idea. People were very uncomfortable with Fannng taking on the role of an Ethiopian Muslim which she very clearly is not.
Yeah, definitely not well received.
Representation matters...
...and this is not it.
Of course the jokes started pouring in
Basically.
Dakota Fanning immediately responded to the outrage, taking to her Instagram story to clarify that she is not really playing an Ethiopian woman.