He's actually looks a lot like the original book art

Father is from Argentina but both sides are heavy in European descent and barely any Latin or South American ancestry. Also, look at her... eyes as blue as a white walker. (I mean attractive as HELL.. but classic Latina she ain't)
The point wasn't they replaced Raul Julia with another Latino it was the fact THEY TRUED TO REPLACE RAUL JULIA AT ALL! Some things become sacred after a performance like his... Heath Ledger (Joker), Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal), or are you going to tell me ANYONE could replace Tim Curry (also played Gomez Adams) in Rocky Horrorm

I dunno about Tim Curry's Frank N. Furter but Joaquin Phoenix did as good a job as Heath Ledger did, and after I saw Mads Mikkelsen in the (sadly discontinued) series... I'm gonna ask "Anthony Who?" That old english theatre actor? Well... he played Hannibal like on a stage. Not bad at all, but Mikkelsen - uhm - eats him for breakfast any time.
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As to Alexis Bledels blue eyes: they can be found on every continent and in most ethnicities. They are caused by a mutation that most probably happened in ancient europe only 6-10,000 years ago. In terms of human evolution that's nothing. And by "classic" you mean stereotype, right?

So you're saying ancient Europe is now Latin America? To be blunt, yes, Mads made a cold Hannibal. But now it's like Dr Who. Every few seasons the lead role changes hands. Is there not ONE character, one role done so well by an actor that to see it reprised by another would feel like an insult? For me, William Adama (Battlestar Galactica) and Marlon Brando as Don Corleone, top the list; so say we all?
..and "stereotype" is a mean way of saying "I want a character to have a particular look to the detriment of anyone who doesn't look like them." Imagine Gomez Adams as a 6'6" red haired, pastel wearing, sweater tied around shouders, tennis pro with chiseled pecks ... and cargo shorts... in FLIP FLOPS.
If you're going to do a remake, make it new, different characters. Not the 300th Batman or 500th superman. Larry and Marley Addams, their kids Miley (the boy) and .. IDFK.. uhhh ... Paula. Make THAT show. Otherwise Donald Trump may one day play Gomez... and my little heart can't take it

[quote]So you're saying ancient Europe is now Latin America?[/quote]
No. What I was trying to say is that in Spain and Portugal there are a lot of people with blue eyes, and they're kind of what made Latin America latin, amirite? Recent studies indicate the origin of the blonde hair/blue eyes combo probably were the Yamnaya culture people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture, who introduced it to Europe. And from there to any place Europeans would "visit" to collect the local commodities and spread the good word and their genes. So I was wrong about the European origin, it's western Eurasia.
This is also quite interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash_people blonde/blue eyed people in Pakistan/Afghanistan.
As to the rest: Oh..? Kay...?

Latina here, it's an ethnicity, not a race, as you all probably know, so there is no 'classic' look. Bledel is right to identify as Latina, even if she's white. Most Hispanic TV shows are casted entirely by white Latinos, and it's blatantly unfair and exclusionary. Of course white latinos have a place in media, every race and ethnicity does, but the preference for light skin is what's hurting society. All our affirmative action and quotas can't fix how rampant colorism is throughout the world and it breaks my heart.

...and so, no one would have a problem with Alexis Bledel playing Wednesday Addams. .. right?

I mean Wednesday Addams is a fictional character. You could cast an afro Latina, those exist. Could cast an Asian latina, those exist. White Latina works as well. Could cast a trans woman as well. The whole point is that if the only hinge point is ethnicity then it doesn't matter what her race is. But if the goal is to combat colorism, if we would consider it unfair to cast the family as white Latinos when indigenous, mestizo Latinos of color are constantly refused roles in preference to their lighter skinned counterparts, then no, Alexis Bledel shouldn't be cast. At the end of the day thats not a decision on the storyline of the Addams family, since skin color plays little to no effect on the storyline, that's up to the producers and directors to hold themselves accountable to fair and equitable casting practices. And that goes far beyond this one movie.