What kinda casting... like... I've seen casting or auditions or whatever as I've been around the entertainment industry in my country at least, and there were specific stuff like, height, appearance, linguistics, etc. Depending on the character needed. If they actually cared about casting a character that looks like Astrid, this could have had a similar thing going on but nope. I feel like this was just an excuse for them to make a race change.

I used to follow gamerant and screenrant but eventually realized its not that good. Articles either seem to be opinions that lacked thought, or just following overrated media opinion