Originally Posted by
Blue22
Even as a POC, myself, I've never had a big issue with white actors playing Damian or Damian being drawn with light skin. In fact, he's often looked better with lighter skin than he has with the dark dark browns that a lot of fan artists try to give him to drive home the fact that he's of middle eastern descent.
Damian's father is white and his mother's ethnic background is so vague that the most we know for sure is that she's at least half Middle Eastern (Apparently she's Chinese as well. I don't know for sure). Couple that with the fact that Bruce's genes are so fucking strong that even his adopted kids look like him, and you got yourself a character who could literally have just about any skin tone, or other genetic features, and it technically wouldn't be wrong (Personally I've always liked him being a bit darker than the rest of the Batfam, but still having Bruce's blue eyes) so many get so hung up on his mom's side that they forget that he's just as much white as he's...whatever the hell Talia is.
Basically, as long as you got an actor with black hair and facial features so vague he could be more than one ethnicity (which, yes, does describe Aidian Gallagher.I actually didn't know he was white until recently) then I'm okay with you playing Damian. That said, I would prefer they try to be as accurate as possible in their casting, but if you find an actor who just works, looks the part, but just happens to not be Middle Eastern...you won't hear me complain.