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http://collider.com/doctor-strange-ancient-one-casting-tilda-swinton/

FYI

Incidentally, Starfleet's examination materials development panel took a lot of flack for serially depicting the Kobayashi-Maru as a white vessel.

Ah yes. A hairless, robe wearing, *Celtic* mysterious wise one. Whaaat? Is that seriously in the comics??

White people can't be mysterious wise ones now?

DA

That's not the problem. The problem is that Swinton's character has all of the trappings of an Asian wise mentor, while being played by a white actor. It's either this close "" to yellowface, or actually crossing that line. (Not sure which until/unless I see the actual movie.)

If Marvel had instead gone all-out on the Celtic imagery for her character, you'd still see complaints about whitewashing a POC comics character, but not the additional complaints about yellowface. And if Marvel had done the really smart thing and combined a Celtic Ancient One with a POC Doctor Strange, then most of the criticism would have been enthusiastic praise instead.

Wow, no. A 'Celtic' Ancient One with a 'POC' Doctor Strange would have been too clever by half. It would be better just to have them both obviously be the same ethnicity as the director.

I'd heard that it was about the Chinese market, but I thought it was a conspiracy theory. Good to get it from the horse's mouth, even if it's a ridiculous reason. I'm pretty sure Chinese people know that Tibet exists, they just consider it a province of China. So I don't know what he's thinking.

Anyway, I'm cool with it being Tilda. Tilda is cool. And if her being obviously non-Chinese is the writer's very subtle way of protesting what's been happening in Tibet for decades, that's fine.

I don't think it's about what the Chinese people would think, but about what the Chinese government would allow.

But when you really look at it, it's about money - they want to movie to be shown in China, so they hedge their bets.

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