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- According to the BBC, films in which white actors have played other races include all genres. African-American roles and roles of Asian descent have been whitewashed, as well as characters from the ancient world in the genre of classical and mythological films.
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- Angelina Jolie As Mariane Pearl. The 2007 film A Mighty Heart caused quite a stir. Not only because it was a drama based on the stirring memoir written by Mariane Pearl, the real-life wife of journalist Daniel Pearl who was executed by the Taliban, but because the movie chose to cast Angelina Jolie in the titular role.
- Jack Palance as Fidel Castro. Jack Palance, a Ukrainian American actor, portrayed Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in the 1969 movie Che!. Palance's skin is noticeably much darker in the film, and, like many white actors that commonly took up whitewashed roles in the past, this wasn't Palance's first offense.
- Ben Affleck As Antonio J. Mendez. In Argo (2012), Ben Affleck plays real-life CIA agent Antonio Mendez, who posed as a Hollywood film producer to save six American hostages in Iran during the 1979 U.S. hostage crisis.
- Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. As one of the most powerful women in history, Cleopatra has been portrayed by many actresses. The most famous is, no doubt, Elizabeth Taylor's portrayal in the 1963 eponymous film.
A report in 2013 showed that 94% of film executives were white and that non-white people were under-represented as filmmakers and actors. The BBC explored two reasons for the casting practice: institutional racism and a belief that well-known white actors attract more audiences and maximize profits.
FilmYearDescription2008The film about card counting features ...2007In the vampire horror film, actor Josh ...2016In the science fiction film based on the ...2021The white actor Matt Van Smith plays ...Sep 26, 2018 · Many films have been criticized by fans and accused of whitewashing their characters or casting white actors in roles for people of color. Here are some of the biggest examples.
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- Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in Argo (2012)
- Marlon Brando as Sakini in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
- Kirsten Dunst as Edwina in The Beguiled (2017)
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
- Julia Roberts and Harriet Tubman. The internet almost exploded when Harriet screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, revealed that when he first started working on the movie in 1994, one studio executive suggested Julia Roberts portray the legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
- Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman. When Harriet finally reached the screen in 2019—without Julia Roberts—its lead, Tony-winning actress Cynthia Erivo, faced a backlash of her own: critics were not happy with a British-born actress of Nigerian heritage portraying one of America's most important and beloved abolitionists.
- Scarlett Johansson and Rub & Tug. In July 2018, Scarlett Johansson was attached to portray the real-life transgender massage parlor owner and gangster Dante "Tex" Gill in the movie Rub & Tug from director Rupert Sanders.
- Ed Skrein as Ben Daimio in Hellboy. On Aug. 21, 2017, British actor Ed Skrein (Deadpool) announced he had joined the cast of the next Hellboy film as Ben Daimio, a character of Japanese-American descent in the comics.
Oct 6, 2015 · Complaints were made that roles in Cameron Crowe’s film Aloha were ‘whitewashed’ (Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing)
When a discussion about whitewashing arises, there are often claims that. “blackwashing,” the practice of replacing a traditionally White character or role with a Black. actor, is the same issue. Much is known about whitewashing and how damaging it is to represent.
