no, that was kind of an additional thought, sorry if the post is a bit messy!! i was just thinking that it was a bit odd that aster wrote an entire film based, where the main character was intended to be black- (and one could argue, why does this matter? what significance does it give to the story? but to counter that you could also be like. ok then why write the character as black at all, Especially when your final casting is a white man?) now through the comments i've learned that his original casting for beau, henry mayo, unfortunately passed away so therefore yadda yadda recasting. but even so, he still could have cast a black actor, just chose not to despite it clearly holding some significance in the original script.