>>715331310Yeah, that could do it easily. People were already suffering from woke and negro fatigue even back then with all the blatant injection of black actors/actresses into media. Failure to read a room can definitely tank an otherwise good film.
That isn't to say the actor sucked or the movie was bad, they did fine in the leading role and the movie was enjoyable to watch, it's just that people didn't go see it because of the perception that the casting was woke pandering (which it arguably was)