whitewashing

When one covers Hollywood, there's a certain level of cynicism that comes into play considering its inconsistent history. Before we get into that let's give credit where it's due with the Film Academy recognizing Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite as Best Picture in the 2020 Oscars. Could anyone else picture a contemporary foreign language film 5-10 years […]

When it comes to pioneers of Hollywood, one of the most overlooked until recently was Anna May Wong. She earned the distinction of being the first Chinese American Hollywood film star. Making the best of the opportunities the business presented her, she took the roles and performed to critical acclaim. The Cultural Struggle for Acceptance […]

This fall, the life of Fantasy Island actor Hervé Villechaize (Peter Dinklage) and the circumstances that led to his story being told will be on display in HBO Films' My Dinner with Hervé. Directed by Sacha Gervasi with a screenplay by Gervasi and story by Gervasi & Sean Macaulay, the film unfolds over one night in Los Angeles and tells the true story of […]

In a baffling turn, a Black Panther collectible pin sold at Walt Disney World looks to show a light-skinned bearer of the mask, if the tone of the skin around the eyes is anything to go by. The Disney Pins Blog — yes, there is a blog dedicated only to Disney souvenir pins — has captured […]

Taika Waititi may or may not be directing the upcoming Akira movie, but one thing is for certain: he wouldn't be casting white actors to star in the film. In an interview with IGN, Waititi revealed his casting plans for the movie he won't admit he's directing: "Yeah. Actually, Asian teenagers would be the way […]

When Ed Skrein resigned from his role in the upcoming Hellboy reboot after learning that he was cast in the role of a Japanese-American character, no one was happier than Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Chloe Bennet, who wrote on Instagram: "DAMN, that's a man. Thank you @edskrein for standing up against hollywoods continuous insensitivity and flippant behavior […]

Bleeding Cool reported last week on the response to actor Ed Skrein's casting as Major Ben Daimio in in Neil Marshall's R-Rated Hellboy reboot. Casting Skrein, a British actor of Jewish Austrian and English descent, in the role of a Japanese-American character, prompted complaints of whitewashing, as we've seen with several high-profile projects in recent memory. However, Skrein took […]

When Ed Skrein was cast as Ben Daimio in Neil Marshall's R-Rated Hellboy reboot, it was a happy day for Skrein, who posted to Twitter announcing his excitement and praising Hellboy creator Mike Mignola: Excited to join the #Hellboy cast as Ben Daimio. All praise due to the creator @artofmmignola 🙏🏼 #BPRD pic.twitter.com/Ev0JDS03H5 — Ed Skrein […]

I have been "Making Mine Marvel" for the last three years solely through the Marvel Unlimited Plus program. While only reading Marvel comics this way means I'm generally six months behind the current storyline, it also means I get all the weekly comics (again, six months late) and a large portion of the Marvel catalogue […]

Throughout the day, Marvel has been "changing the comic book industry" by releasing a series of mostly innocuous teasers revealing homage covers for most of their previously existing series, with a couple of new things thrown in here and there. We haven't seen any information on creative teams, or really anything all that exciting. We […]

Joining the chorus of voices of people calling out for better representation in Hollywood, Chris Pratt weighed in on the movie industry's diversity crisis via an interview in Fitness Magazine. "I don't see personal stories that necessarily resonate with me, because they're not my stories," said Pratt in the interview, excerpted on People.com. "I think there's […]

There has been considerable complaints regarding the recent Marvel Netflix version of Iron Fist, for casting a white man in the lead, of a show that focuses on East Asian imagery, spirituality and concepts. It has been criticised for cultural appropriation – but that has also been criticised because Danny Rand, Iron Fist, was and […]

Ghost in the Shell is likely to be a movie that will have an extremely contentious debate surrounding it. There has been a huge black (or in this case, white) mark against the movie from the beginning, and now that the final product is out the results are even worse than we imagined. However, to […]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on Iron Fist actor Finn Jones' quitting Twitter after a failed attempt to whitesplain whitewashing to Geeks of Color Creative Director Asyiqin Haron, who was, by the way, inundated with harassment following the incident. But getting back to the real victim here, Jones issued a statement about his departure to schedule-themed […]

Since the very first poster for The Great Wall starring Matt Damon was first released, the film has been criticized as yet another example of "whitewashing," the process of casting white actors in non-white roles. Other recent examples of the practice include Marvel casting Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange, though some reports claimed that […]

Yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda is interested in playing Carnage in a big screen adaptation of 90s super-mega-crossover event, Maximum Carnage. The rumor itself may not amount to much – it's simply Miranda's desire and no indication of a Maximum Carnage movie in the works. However, it did serve […]