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Hollywood Casting

So, casting for the upcoming Avatar movie has basically been a whole load of white-washing racial FAIL headdeskery. Which is why it is SO. AWESOME. that Jessie McCartney (yes, the teenybopper singer, SEE WHAT I MEAN?!) is DROPPING OUT and being replaced by DEV PATEL, most famous for being TOTALLY AWESOME in Slumdog Millionaire.

Of course, now we have the problem that the main antagonist is so far the only person of color in the cast, which is obviously a whole 'nother area of racial FAIL headdeskery.

But it's a tiny bit of progress, and so if M. Night Shyamalan can keep from going more crazy and they stop failing so hard at casting, this movie might possibly have a chance at being awesome. Maybe. A bit, anyway.

BUT YAY DEV PATEL. AT LEAST WE CAN HAVE AWESOME ZUKO.

ETA: MORE FAIL. GOOD GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE.
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[identity profile] dracis.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
uhm, ouch.

[identity profile] dracis.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
the racial fail. I hadn't heard about the casting.

[identity profile] shadydave.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it was pretty bad. I didn't expect them to go with an all-Asian cast (because that would have made too much sense in an Asian-inspired fantasy setting with lots of martial arts) but I was hoping for at least a spirited attempt at a racially diverse cast, especially since M. Night Shyamalan is directing and he is also not white. And then they got white actors for all 4 leads and at least one supporting character ::headdesk::

So now only THREE of the main characters and one supporting character are white. HURRAH.
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