[ SECRET POST #4408 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4408 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Snowpiercer]


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03.
[Taylor Swift/Tom Hiddleston]


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04.
[Game of Thrones]


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05.
[Titans]


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06.
[BoJack Horseman]


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07.
[Criminal Minds season 4, episode 14 "Cold Comfort"]


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08.
[She-Ra]


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09.
[Queer Eye]










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Comments

[liz_marcs]

Part of what's compounding the guilt (I think) is that they did originally cast an Asian actress in the part, who backed out somewhat last-minute-ish. So Alison Brie was not just the last person cast, she was cast at the last minute.

I always got the sense that RBW felt guilty for going with another "actor from cult fave with some name recognition" rather than going back to the list of Asian actresses they did audition and casting one of them. It could be at the time he was in panic-mode and didn't think things through, or it could be he honestly didn't think it mattered since it was a cartoon. Who's to say?

It doesn't help that this is, almost beat-for-beat, the same thing that happened when Brie was cast on Community. Annie was supposed to be Asian, and they in fact had actually made an offer to an Asian actress for the role. For whatever reason, someone somewhere decided they wanted someone else (signs point to either Sony or NBC) and Brie was brought in at the last minute, again the last person cast who was also cast at the last minute.

The Community story started getting publicly circulated (people who listened to the DVD commentary for Community knew for years) right around the time the whole issue about Diane blew up. It served to pretty much amplify the issue, even though I think it's an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Annie wasn't *inherently* a character with an undetermined Asian ethnicity, while Diane is most definitely Vietnamese-American (albeit removed by at least two generations since her parents are definitely have working-class Boston roots). So I definitely get why people are uncomfortable with Diane.