Posted on 12/06/2016 9:08:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Hollywood actor Matt Damon on Tuesday defended his starring role in upcoming Hollywood film "The Great Wall", saying that accusations of "whitewashing", or the use Caucasian stars over actors of other ethnicities, were unfounded.
Zhang Yimou called me and asked me to be in his movie," Damon said in Beijing, referring to the film's director who joined him on a panel.
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"When I think of 'whitewashing' I think Chuck Connors playing Geronimo, thats whitewashing and thats unacceptable," he said, referring to a Caucasian actor who played the Native American chief Geronimo in a 1962 Western.
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So it looks like Raymond Burr was not available to fill the white guy role in this movie.
My intent wasn’t to be derogatory,but the one hit was an interesting aside.
Connors was a homo?
wow, I had no idea.
(Personally, I live for a time when an actor's performance is judged by the content of the character, rather than the colour of their skin)
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