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- Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry in which white actors are cast in non-white roles. As defined by Merriam-Webster, to whitewash is "to alter...in a way that favors, features, or caters to white people: such as...casting a white performer in a role based on a nonwhite person or fictional character."
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Jul 9, 2021 · For the purpose of this discussion, we can define whitewashing as the matter of casting white actors in non-white roles; a controversy for the fact that it fails to admit non-white actors into Hollywood’s fortress of whiteness, and the fact that it emboldens white people as “authorities” in the telling of non-white narratives.
Dec 31, 2019 · Far from a thing of the past, 2017 saw the most whitewashed movies of the year, with a total of 5. These movies include Ghost in the Shell (Scarlett Johansson), The Beguiled (Kirsten Dunst) and The Post (Bob Odenkirk).
MovieCharacterRace/ethnicity PortrayalHollywood’s Choice For ActorThe Curse of La LloronaAnna Tate-GarciaLatinaLinda CardelliniAnnihilationLenaAsian AmericanNatalie PortmanThe PostBen BagdikianArmenian AmericanBob OdenkirkJungleYosseph GhinsbergIsraeliDaniel RadcliffeThe film about card counting features actors Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Jacob Pitts and Kevin Spacey in the lead roles. The film is based on the true story where a group of Asian American students and their teacher applied card counting to win significantly in gambling.
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.
Apr 14, 2016 · 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. A week...
Aug 8, 2018 · Paramount Studio’s 2017 live-action adaptation of the classic Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell opens to the soundtrack of a haunting chant in Japanese while surreal images of cybernetic body...
