Disney’s live-action, multi-racial remake of The Little Mermaid isn’t woke enough for a prominent diversity activist who has slammed the movie for “pretending that slavery didn’t exist.”
(AFP) — Australian basketball’s longest-running feud flared again Wednesday when former NBA star Andrew Bogut took aim at women’s Olympic stalwart Liz Cambage over her accusations team photos had been “whitewashed”.
Marvel not only stepped right over the opportunity to honor its own legacy/canon/source material by casting a black woman as Captain Marvel, in order to do so Marvel fans have been punished with Larson’s insufferable presence.
Representatives from Knox College are defending their decision to cancel a production of The Good Person of Szechwan over concerns that the there aren’t enough Asian students to fill the cast.
The theater department at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, has canceled a production of The Good Person of Szechwan over concerns that white actors may be cast to play Asian characters.
How can an industry that relentlessly preens and poses as the vanguard of progressivism, an industry that constantly lectures the rest of us on racial matters, be in a bind where they have not groomed enough minority actors into stars — where they do not have a solid farm team of non-white actors to step in and take these roles?
Disney has found itself at the center of “whitewashing” accusations after the company created an original character, who will be played by a white actor, for its upcoming live-action remake of Aladdin.
Actress Chloe Bennet, best known for her starring role on the ABC hit series ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ claims she had to change her last name because Hollywood is “racist” toward Asian-American actors.
Actor Ed Skrein has exited the reboot of the Hellboy film series after intense backlash surrounding his casting, which some critics had called a “whitewashing” of the original character’s Asian heritage.
A Hollywood film yet again finds itself responding to a social-media outcry over the casting of a white actor in a role that was originally Asian-American.
Social media users are decrying the casting of Zach McGowan, a white actor, who has been tapped to play a native Hawaiian in the World War II drama Ni’ihau, as the latest example of Hollywood “whitewashing.”
Scarlett Johansson’s casting as the lead role of Major Motoko Kusanagi in the live action movie Ghost in the Shell, based on the comic series, has caused controversy and is being called the “whitewashing” of an “Asian role.”
Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara regrets playing the role of a Native American character in last year’s “Pan,” as she said it put her on the wrong side of Hollywood’s “whitewashing” debate.
A New York City man has reportedly sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art for housing four “offensive” and “racist” masterpiece paintings that depict Jesus as white and blond.
Following an online backlash, Gods of Egypt director Alex Proyas and the film’s studio, Lionsgate, have issued apologies for casting mostly white actors to play ancient Egyptians.
The Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) criticized director Ridley Scott and his new film The Martian on Thursday for changing the races of two central characters who had been Asian in the film’s source material.
