I found that to be a bizzare statement, given the context: hello, Dumas is an example of a mixed-race man who had blue eyes. I know nothing about the director, but if he's mixed race himself, bwuh...?

At this point, I'm wondering if the ellipsis in that quote has something to do with how the film industry tends to define racial identities in a very narrow, prescriptive way. I wonder if "black and white mixed race" is defined in the film industry to be a certain look, and that look always precludes blue eyes. (For reference to what I'm talking about, this quote by Lala Vasquez about how, because she's a black Latina, she can't get cast for roles as Latinas -- because in the film industry, Latinas are assumed to have a certain look, and that look excludes black.)