Clarice Starling will be black in future seasons of Hannibal?

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About Clarice:

Stephanie Piche: Okay. And then one quick question. There was a - in an early episode, there was a young girl at Quantico in Will’s class. She walks up to him like she’s going to ask him something and then walks away. Was that Clarice Starling?

Bryan Fuller: And, you know, there’s - you know, we talk about Clarice quite a bit on the show. And as you may know, there’s certain rights issues tangled up in it. But there’s something about if we do ever tell the Clarice Starling’s story, I think it might be, you know, interesting to change ethnicities on Clarice and get a different perspective of a southern young woman’s experience and put race as a component in that woman’s view of the world. And, you know, it is such a - you know, race is oftentimes a tricky subject just because it makes some people cringe. But I think it is absolutely a defining trait of people and characters and fictions.
So part of me wants to do a Clarice that would be a non-white Clarice and have a different angle into that story that gives it layers that we haven’t seen because it’s going to be really hard to top Jodie Foster. And I think that - so when you said Clarice about that young woman, you know, that young white woman, I always - my reaction was first, I’d like - you know, I’m hoping if we ever do that that we don’t cast a white actress. But if we do, I hope it’s somebody like Ellen Page.

I think it's pretty clear now that Bryan is a SJW at this point. Doesn't matter though. The show is so good that you don't care if it doesn't truly follow the books and movies.

Source: Bryan Fuller