whitewashing
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Ghost In The Shell Producer Says Fans He Knows Don’t Care About Whitewashing
The Ghost in the Shell producer Ari Arad has acknowledged that some “people online” are upset that Scarlett Johansson is playing a protagonist who was originally Asian, but that the fans he talked to were OK with it — so it probably won’t matter.
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‘The Ghost In The Shell’ Producer Finally Responds To The Casting Controversy
Ever since Paramount released the first image from the Ghost in the Shell remake, people have been up in arms at the idea of Scarlett Johansson playing the lead role of Motoko Kusanagi — the latest in a long line of Asian characters being portrayed by white actors. Three months later, the team behind the…
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Rooney Mara Regrets Being The Centrepiece Of Pan’s Awful Whitewashing
For a movie that was meant to represent an “international and multi-racial world”, Pan had a main cast that was as shockingly white as the one in Gods of Egypt — including the originally Native American Tiger Lily, played by Rooney Mara. Now Mara is washing her hands of the movie, including her own casting…