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Angelina Jolie She played Marianne Pearl, the wife of kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl and a French-born woman of Afro-Cuban descent. Great heart.
Jolie appeared to darken her skin and change her hair for the role, which led to a lot of criticism.
She regrets taking on the role and He said In one interview, “I learned on a macro level about the crazy history of whitewashing in Hollywood and how widespread the problem really is. It sparked a very important conversation.” In 2019, she He shouted “I’m sorry!” to Sandra oh When she made a joke about it in Golden Globe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal He played Dustan in Disney Prince of Persia. Many have wondered why the role did not go to an actor of Iranian origin.
In an interview with Gyllenhaal Acknowledge the problem of representation“I think I learned a lot from this movie as I spend a lot of time trying to think carefully about the roles I choose and why I choose them… and it’s inevitable that you’ll make mistakes and make mistakes. Like, ‘This wasn’t right for me’ or ‘This wasn’t quite right.'” “
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Mickey Rooney played Mr. Yunioshi, a Japanese man Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
For the role, Rooney played Yellowface, wore bucket teeth, and used an exaggerated accent. He got a lot cash of Asian Americans for its racist portrayal.
he He responded To criticism that says: “That has never happened in the more than 40 years that we’ve been doing it – not a single complaint. Everywhere I go in the world people say, ‘…You were so funny.’ Asians and Chinese come up to me and say, ‘” “Mickey, you were out of this world.” He said that if he had known people would be so offended, “I wouldn’t have done it.”
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Anthony Hopkins played Coleman Silk, a black professor who passes for white Human disgrace.
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Rooney Mara plays Tiger Lily, a Native American character frying pan.
A year after the movie Mara He expressed his regret Saying, “I really hate, hate, hate that I’m on this side of the whitewashing conversation. I really do. I never want to be on this side of it again. I can understand why people are upset and frustrated.”
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Joseph Fiennes played pop star Michael Jackson, a black man, in an episode of the comedy series, Urban legends.
After the trailer was released, it was met with a lot of controversy. Many people called for a boycott of the film, and a petition against the film gained more than 20,000 supporters, and Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson’s daughter, mentioned how Hurt It was by casting. After all this controversy, Sky Arts decided not to broadcast the episode.
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in Soul manC. Thomas Howell played Mark Watson, a white man who uses blackface to get Harvard scholarships for black students.
In 2013 interview, Howell expressed no regrets about the film. He said he recently rewatched the film and was “shocked at how harmful this film really is, and how the anti-racist message it contains is so pervasive. I still don’t understand, and I think this is just my movie.” “The ignorance, the fact that some people hate the whole idea of blackface, because this is not a movie about blackface,” Howell continued. “It’s not like I’m Al Jolson in blackface singing ‘Mommy’. … It’s a complete 180 degree change from that. It’s an innocent movie, it has innocent messages, it has some very deep messages, and I think people who haven’t seen it are judging They are very wrong.
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Sean Connery played James Bond while undercover as a Japanese man in the film You only live twice. The film included countless racial stereotypes.
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Scarlett Johansson played Major Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi Ghost in the shell. The cast received a lot of criticism since the film was based on a Japanese manga.
Johansson He responded Backlash responded by saying, “I think this character has a very unique experience in that she has a human mind in a completely robotic body. Obviously I would never try to play someone of a different race.”
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Tilda Swinton played the role of the old woman in Doctor Strange. In the comics, the Ancient One is depicted as a Tibetan man.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige later said that this choice was a mistake. Fiji and Swinton too He explained The casting was chosen as an attempt to avoid offensive Asian racial stereotypes.
“We thought we were very smart and very sophisticated,” Fiji said He said. “We’re not going to follow the old wise Asian man’s cliché. But it was a wake-up call to say, ‘Okay, wait a minute, is there any other way to find out?’ Is there any other way to avoid falling into cliché and cast an Asian actor? The answer to that is of course “Yes.”
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Finally, Vasquez, a Latina woman, is played by Jeannette Goldstein Aliens.
Goldstein is Jewish and of Russian, Moroccan, and Brazilian descent. As for the role, it is Dark Her skin with makeup. Years later, she “I’ve never been chosen, or had the opportunity to audition for a short, freckle-faced Jewish girl who’s half Russian, half Moroccan and Brazilian. So I don’t think I’d be working much if that were all there was to it,” he said. I was able to read.”
