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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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Oct 13, 2024 · They cast who? Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most egregious instances of whitewashing in movies. In this video, we take a look at movies like...
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From blockbuster movies to indie films, disco... In this eye-opening video, we delve into the persistent issue of racial misrepresentation in the film industry.
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Dec 31, 2019 · Whitewashing in Hollywood is the well-documented practice of movie executives and other decision makers to choose white actors to portray people of color on film. One of the most famous cases of Hollywood whitewashing involves Mickey Rooney portraying an Asian character in 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
MovieCharacterRace/ethnicity PortrayalHollywood’s Choice For ActorThe Curse of La LloronaAnna Tate-GarciaLatinaLinda CardelliniAnnihilationLenaAsian AmericanNatalie PortmanThe PostBen BagdikianArmenian AmericanBob OdenkirkJungleYosseph GhinsbergIsraeliDaniel Radcliffe- 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.
Instead of a flagrant stain upon cinema, it is a shadow that lurks in the background. Instead of blackface, there is whitewashing. “Whitewashing” is generally defined as choosing a “white male or female to portray a character who is originally of an ethnic background.”.
Sep 22, 2015 · From the controversial blackface in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, to the very white Natalie Wood playing the Peurto Rican Maria in West Side Story, it is still a big problem today as taken into evidence by the following movies - many only released in the last few years.
