whitewashing
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Hellboy’s Producer Discusses The Thinking Behind That Ben Daimio Whitewashing ‘Mistake’
One of the first curious details about Neil Marshall’s Hellboy reboot came when actor Ed Skrein was cast as Ben Daimio. In the Hellboy comics, Daimio’s always been Japanese-American. Skrein, notably, has always been quite white, and so the question on everyone’s minds at the time was what, exactly, was Lionsgate playing at.
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Annihilation’s Director Says He Didn’t Know About His Film’s Whitewashing Problems
Alex Garland’s upcoming scifi spectacle Annihilation looks absolutely stunning and it’s set to star a cast of fantastic lead actresses as they embark on a perilous adventure into a strange, mutated land. But some fans of the novel the movie is adapting have an issue with the film’s white heroines*.
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Roundtable: How Ghost In The Shell Fumbles Race And Identity
Ghost in the Shell is finally in theatres, after months of backlash and even more backtracking from the movie’s cast and crew. The film has been accused of whitewashing the Major so they could cast a Caucasian actress, perpetuating decades of erasure for Asian-Americans in film.
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Wikihow Turned Obama, Jay-Z And Beyoncé White To Explain ‘How To Become A Congressman’
Wikihow, the people who brought you “How to Stop Being Racist” and the Mother’s Day classic, “How to Hide an Erection” (not to be confused with “How to Suppress An Erection”), has leapt over its own absurdist bar with “How to Become a Congressman”. This time, the tutorial stars Jay-Z, Beyonce and Former President Barack…