Colorful Little Mermaid
I watched a Peking Opera, Japan’s Kabuki Theater, and a Shakespeare play, where female parts were played by male actors.
in fact, Jesus wasn’t white but is portrayed that way. And fictional characters can be whatever color the director of the project wants them to be. The skin color of the actor is irrelevant to the quality of the final product, and skin color is not why.
Much more recently, actresses have taken on some of his most famous male roles such as Hamlet and Julius Caesar.