You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.