The sister, Anne, played by the singer Zendaya, falls in love with Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron),
a wealthy white actor who invests in Barnum's show for reasons the film is completely unable to explain.
Jennifer Aniston, Renée Zellweger, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Mila Kunis and Rose McGowan are among the famous
actors to have written open letters this year, and any trend that reaches such a celebrity critical mass is easy to deride, particularly when its visible champions are
wealthy white women.