Hero_of_the_Day
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They cast a Latina actress specifically to avoid making the movie look like a "black" film (a la Tyler Perry) and to avoid having a white woman/black male relationship on screen.
http://www.today.com/id/7019342/ns/today-entertainment/t/was-race-issue-hitch-casting/#.Ui7yIz_3MZk
Something I have always wondered about that is kind of related to this. Dave Chappelle is married to an Asian woman. On Chappelle's Show the first one or two times they do a skit where his "wife" is in it, she is played by an Asian actress. But, is quickly changed to a black woman for the remainder of the series.
I've always wondered why that was.