I imagine if you can remove an Asian American from a gig because he has a “White” name, you can hire a White guy to play an Asian American character.
Traditionally white role replaced by black actor is celebrated by the same media that without a second thought condemns this.
Central to his backstory?
As if Sue Storm’s brother the Human Torch needed changing up.
And don’t get me started on how the anti-New Deal Little Orphan Annie has been adapted...
Do you want Diversity and make the people that never go to the movies happy or do you want people to watch it so you can make some money
Did this series need a reboot?
That’s like rebooting Indiana Jones 3 movies in.
Wow, political correctness is becoming increasingly complicated. It’s ok to take a character that was conceived of, written as, and portrayed as Caucasian, and make them any other color (or sex). It’s considered “insensitive” or “cultural appropriation” or racist to do the exact same thing to character that isn’t white. Then to really make matters confusing you have situations like “Iron Fist” (who was originally portrayed as a rich white kid, and the story wouldn’t really work if he wasn’t a rich white kid) where for some unnamed politically correct “reasoning” the character “should be” Asian. This requires one to ignore that according to the original story he wasn’t raised or trained in “Asia” but in a parallel/pocket universe and it requires the racist notion that all martial artists must be Asian.
Then you have the case of “Annie”. She’s been portrayed as a white character for decades until fairly recently. I don’t think her skin color is fundamental to the story so personally I don’t care that she was portrayed as black. That being said when she was then portrayed as white again, there were complaints that the character was being “white washed”.
What about Tanto being played by Johnny Depp? Surely there were plenty of Native Americans that could have equaled his performance. Where was the outcry?
There is absolutely no logical chain of reason here. It’s simply cultural Marxism run amok and should be treated with the same contempt as other failed murderous ideologies.
No more Black Santas then?
Asians were Asian supremists!! no comic book roles for them!! (j/k)
If Hamilton can be black, and Little Orphan Annie can be black, and Chyna can be Black Chyna, then Hellboy can be white. Otherwise, they're just persecuting white folk for the fun of it.
What is this stuff about an Asian doing the role?
I’ve seen two “Hellboy” movies (on TV) and the lead role was done by Ron Pearlman, who did a great job.