Posted on 03/23/2014 3:51:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 03/23/2014 5:50:57 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
As for Mara's ethnicity? She's not Native American. Folks are passing around an online petition that asks Warner Bros. to "stop casting white actors to play people of color."
2. If you're particularly ticked off when a white character is played by a person of color, then you're probably not pleased that Michael B. Jordan (Friday Night Lights, The Wire, Fruitvale Station), who is black, was cast as the Human Torch in Fantastic Four. Human Torch is a superhero who, as his name hints, can engulf his body in flames, control nearby fires and fly. When he's not on fire (though he usually is), the comics show that he's a blonde, white guy named Johnny Storm. (There was an android Human Torch once. To the extent that androids have ethnic identities, the android's was probably Anglo-Saxon.) If casting a black actor to play a white superhero irks you, this probably will, too.
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Courtney Cox and David Schwimmer, brother and sister. (Friends)
Elizabeth McGovern and Paul Giamatti, brother and sister. (Downton Abbey)
Sabrina Le Beauf, the oldest Huxtable daughter. (The Cosby Show)
Jon Voight and Nicolas Cage, father and son. (National Treasure)
Seriously?
Don’t forget Mickey Rooney as the Japanese guy upstairs in Breakfast at Tiffanys!
If they wanted a name actress they didn't really have a "Native American" option.
No mention of why Kahn in the last Star Trek movie was played by a pale Englishman, purportedly so a darker skinned actor wouldn't have to play the villain.
An excellent performance — in an absolutely wonderful motion picture.
I always think these things are funny. I don’t care what color they are, are they any good? People need to stop counting color, it’s the fast way to sound like a retard.
Worst casting choices in Hollywood history had nothing to do with race and ethnicity. Some actors just plain suck at certain roles. Redford sucked as Gatsby and Cruise sucked as LeStat.
Yeah, America’s swirling down the drain and this is important?
Perhaps white men should be upset because Peter Pan is almost always played by an actress.
They are actors. They pretend to be someone they are not.
So what is the problem?
But you gotta admit, John Wayne was brilliant as Genghis Khan.
Well, pretty good.
Uh, adequate.
OK, he sucked.
Didn’t research show that 33% or more people in the U.S. were descendants of Genghis Khan. (Or Jingin Khan, if you are John Kerry)
As one who grew up with BLUE EYED Indians in the 50s, who cares. They are ACTING. If Jeffrey Hunter could make me believe he was Guy Gabaldon or John Wayne as Genghis Khan for God’s sake, then today’s Hollywood can have Samuel L. Jackson play Stonewall Jackson. If he can pull it off, more power to him. Just make sure the beard and quotes are correct, that’s all I ask.
Seeing that Johnny Storm is Sue Storm’s younger brother, are the film’s producers going to have her also as black? Of course that would make it a white Reed Richards married to a Black Sue Storm Richards.
So Zorba the Greek shouldn’t have been played by a Mexican American
The problem here is that the character is a fantasy... heh. Dancing with Tigers?
i get confused... am i supposed to say "people of color" or "colored people", and what, specifically, is the difference???
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