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May 24, 2024 · “Whiteness is the default and the norm. It sets the standard to which we should aspire but cannot achieve.” Here are examples of whitewashing you may never have thought about.
- Jeremy Helligar
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.”.
- EW Staff
- 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.
Sep 5, 2017 · Whitewashing happens in a number of ways. It can be the whitening through casting of a character who was originally a person of colour in historical or source material, as with Daimio in the...
range from the inciting of racial violence—examples of which can still be found in the disproportionate killing of Black people by police—to how those same caricatures appear in film portrayals of black people in present day.
Dec 3, 2023 · In the realm of film and television, a troubling practice known as whitewashing has cast a shadow over the industry. This investigation focuses on the ethical dimensions of race-based casting ...
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First, whitewashing happens in films based on historical events, where white actors play the role of non-white characters. An exemplar of this first type is the classic movie, Birth of a Nation, where a number of white actors notoriously appeared in blackface.
