8 White People Who Were Cast in Roles Intended for Ethnic Actors

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Following comments from a Noah co-screenwriter explaining why only white people were specifically cast in the biblical epic—his words: “…The race of the individuals don’t matter. They’re supposed to be stand-ins for all people…we’re trying to deal with [the] everyman”—it had us thinking about other instances where Hollywood usurped race when the original source material called for a minority actor.

Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia

Regarding a story where the lead is a Persian prince, the studio decided to go with Jake Gyllenhaal instead of an Iranian actor.

Ben Affleck in Argo

The CIA agent that Argo is based on is Tony Mendez, and Ben Affleck clearly isn’t Hispanic.

Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger

Any time a non-Native American person dresses up as a Native American, it’s bound to create controversy. As was the case with this Disney production which apparently felt Johnny was more suitable to realistically play an indigenous person than an actor who’s actually indigenous.

Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily

It’s still in pre-production, but the casting of Rooney in the next Peter Pan film is likely to cause a similar backlash.

Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Connelly’s character Alicia wasn’t white in the true story A Beautiful Mind is based on. John Nash’s wife was a woman from El Salvador, but apparently that wasn’t all that important when the story was adapted. Jennifer won an Oscar for this role, by the way.

Jim Sturgess in 21

Also based on a true story, 21 tells the story of a group of predominately Asian American MIT and Harvard students who bested the casino gambling system. Except in the movie version, none of the developed characters were Asian. Producers even commented on the noticeable absence of minority actors by saying they didn’t have “access to any bankable Asian American actors.”

Justin Chatwin in Dragonball: Evolution

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The Japanese manga was adapted for a film in 2009, but the only thing they modeled after the original character was his hair.

Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz in The Last Airbender

Set in an Asian-influenced world with Chinese martial arts, the main characters of this ensemble cast included zero Asian actors.

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Quentin Tarantino Rants Over "The Hateful Eight" Script Leak: "I Gave It to Six Motherf***ing People!"

Quentin Tarantino says he was betrayed after the script for The Hateful Eight was leaked. "I Gave It to Six Motherf***ing People!" he complains, while speculating about the culprit. Credit: D Dipasupil/FilmMagic
Is someone going to fess up? Quentin Tarantino is fuming mad after the script for The Hateful Eight, an ensemble Western, was leaked -- and he's trying to find the culprit.
"I'm very, very depressed," the Django Unchained director, 50, told Deadline on Tuesday, Jan. 21. "I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it's gotten out today."
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Via the process of elimination, the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter is convinced that one of the six people he gave the script to is to blame.
"I gave it to one of the producers on Django Unchained, Reggie Hudlin, and he let an agent come to his house and read it," Tarantino said. "That's a betrayal, but not crippling because the agent didn't end up with the script. There is an ugly maliciousness to the rest of it. I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood."
"I gave it to three motherf***ing actors," he explained. "We met in a place, and I put it in their hands. Reggie Hudlin's agent never had a copy. It's got to be either the agents of Dern or Madsen. Please name names."
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Rather than continue with the project, Tarantino has decided to publish his story and and reconsider turning it into a film in the next five years.
"I give it out to six people, and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it," he said. "I'll publish it. I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got 10 more where that came from."
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That being said, Tarantino did admit that he appreciates fan interest in his work. "I like the fact that people like my shit, and that they go out of their way to find it and read it," he said. "But I gave it to six motherf***ing people! Starting this week, I'll be setting meetings with publishers."

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