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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)
Mar 2, 2022 · When people of color enter spaces historically perceived as ‘white’ in popular representations of history and speculative fiction, familiar outcries of ‘blackwashing’ or ‘forced diversity’ are sure to follow. What is it exactly that white people fear losing?
- Natasha Ishak
- 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.
- Captain Allison Ng - Aloha (2015) There wasn't much to like in Cameron Crowe's Aloha, which earned him some of the worst reviews of his career. Along with the incomprehensible plot and winsome tone, the film faced criticism for casting Emma Stone in the role of Allison Ng, a supposedly mixed-race character who is of Chinese and Hawaiian descent.
- Goku - Dragonball: Evolution (2009) This misbegotten adaptation of the popular Japanese manga series was a critical and box office disappointment. Much controversy arose when Justin Chatwin was cast to portray Goku, the main character of the whole franchise and integral part of the original series.
- Dastan - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Hollywood faced some major accusations of whitewashing when they decided to cast white actors to play Middle Eastern and Asian characters in Prince of Persia: The Sand of Times.
- Katara, Aang, Zuko and Soka - The Last Airbender (2010) The Last Airbender is another movie in which almost every character was miscast and whitewashed.
Apr 14, 2016 · Death Note. James Dittiger/Netflix. The Netflix film adaptation of the popular Japanese manga was criticized for whitewashing the story (Nat Wolff plays the film's lead, a character who is ...
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Dec 31, 2019 · Taking a more in-depth look at whitewashed Hollywood movies of the 2000s, from Pay It Forward to Aloha, The Dark Knight Rises to Dr. Strange, and everything in between.
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