# The Sandman trailer - upd, now on Netflix

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\
**Created:** [June 9, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sandman-trailer-upd-now-on-netflix/965921 "2022-06-09T14:27:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sandman-trailer-upd-now-on-netflix/965921/9 "2022-06-10T12:51:55Z")

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Cross-posting from the thread about “woke” movies (my bolding):

> [@How "woke" are movies really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-woke-are-movies-really/965849/70):
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> BTW, this is what Neil, Himself [has to say](https://www.thewrap.com/the-sandman-casting-desire-death-nonbinary-black-neil-gaiman-defends/) about the casting:
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> “I give zero fucks about people who don’t understand/ haven’t read Sandman whining about a non-binary Desire or that Death isn’t white enough.”
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> and
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> "Someone who could speak the truth to Dream, on the one hand, but **also be the person you’d want to meet when your life was done on the other**. And then we saw Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s (she/her) audition and we knew we had our Death.”
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> He clearly cares more about character than colour. And it’s _his_ damn character, so he _is_ right (Death of the Author be damned)

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