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⌈ Secret Post #4531 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not really the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_(2015_film)#Whitewashing_controversy

The Media Action Network for Asian Americans accused the director and studio of whitewashing the cast, and Crowe apologized about Emma Stone being miscast as a character who is meant to be of one quarter Chinese and one quarter Hawaiian descent.[30][31][32]

In June 2015, Crowe responded to the backlash: "I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice. As far back as 2007, Captain Allison Ng was written to be a super-proud one quarter Hawaiian who was frustrated that, by all outward appearances, she looked nothing like one. A half-Chinese father was meant to show the surprising mix of cultures often prevalent in Hawaii. Extremely proud of her unlikely heritage, she feels personally compelled to over-explain every chance she gets. The character was based on a real-life, red-headed local who did just that."[33][34]

[(Anonymous)]

But why not get an actual mixed race actor?

[(Anonymous)]

So, the casting call should have been for a quarter-Hawaiian, quarter-Chinese, half-white actress who looks white and frustrated about it. Just say you don't think they should have made the movie and be done with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Your position is that no mixed-race actresses exist?

[(Anonymous)]

Your position is that all mixed-race women are interchangeable? Ew.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - so instead of casting a mixed-race actress, like maybe someone with some actual Hawaiian blood somewhere along the line, they should just cast a white woman, because that's totally better.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT I mean, Chloe Bennett from Agents of SHIELD (who is half Chinese) gets shit for looking too white, and so did Meghan Markle (who is half African American). A mixed-race actress of the right age should not be all that hard to find, let alone in Hawaii of all places!

[thewakokid]

Unless her blood is going to be on camera I don't see it as relevant to the filming. Even then I think you could just use stunt blood.

I admit I don't know this movie so I'm taking what the anon up there said on faith, but if the story specifically demands someone who "looks white and frustrated about it" and she looks white... and can act well enough for the part... Well yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I think the more offensive part is the general lack of Hawaiian characters in the movie, period... but again, I'm not entirely sure it was supposed to be strictly about Hawaiian natives themselves or just about a random group of folks on one of the islands.

I'm a person of mixed race, and I may be in a minority (ha!), but I'm honestly surprised there was such backlash to her casting, specifically. I get mistaken for basically everything I'm not, and in my childhood, that was pretty frustrating. But that's another story for another day. I can kind of sympathize with someone who's proud of their roots, but is looked at as though they don't have the right to be and must constantly justify why they are. That would get so tiring.

[thewakokid]

I get that, It's set in Hawaii, (I'm guessing) and it's about a white passing mixed woman in Hawaii frustrated about the fact that she's a white passing woman surrounded by non-white Hawaiians (Again, Just guessing, Piecing it together from what everyone else it talking about) and your brilliant casting decision is to not cast all the people around her as visibly Hawaiian? That seems like a legitimate thing to notice and take issue with because it fucks the narrative of the film