-Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in Pan
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Mara: No. When I heard Joe was doing it, I have wanted to work with him for a long time now. And when they told me that he was doing it and that he wanted to meet with me, I was like, “How is that going to work? I can’t play Tiger Lily.” Because I always thought of her as a Native American, because that’s always how she has been portrayed. I met with him anyway, because I love him, and I asked how this is going to work. Then he showed me all these images that he had of all these different cultures around the world. He explained to me what his vision was for the Native Village and it just made sense to me. They are natives of Neverland, and it’s a completely made up place. Then it just made sense to me.
-Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in Doctor Strange
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The Ancient One is Doctor Strange's mentor and while it's interesting the role has been genderbent, one should also note that the Ancient One is also a Tibetan man who was born and raised in a village in the Himalayas.
-Gemma Arterton as Miss Justineau in She Who Brings Gifts
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The Girl with All the Gifts follows Melanie, a special little girl akazombie child who still has higher brain functions, in the post-apocalypse. Miss Justineau is one of her favorite teachers that she adores. This is how Miss Justineau is described in the book.
Although Miss Justineau’s face stands out anyway because it’s such a wonderful, wonderful colour. It’s dark brown, like the wood of the trees in Melanie’s rainforest picture whose seeds only grow out of the ashes of a bushfire, or like the coffee that Miss Justineau pours out of her flask into her cup at break time. Except it’s darker and richer than either of those things, with lots of other colours mixed in, so there isn’t anything you can really compare it to. All you can say is that it’s as dark as Melanie’s skin is light.
They did racebend Melanie, who is white in the books, but considering the reveal in the story the casting of Arterton comes off even worse.
-Stonewall
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Roland Emmerich's been getting lots of shit for inserting a white male OC to focus the narrative on as the leader of the riots rather than the actual transgender and/or women of color who were there and started the movement.
The director tried addressing the backlash his movie got. "The courageous actions of everyone who fought against injustice in 1969 inspired me to tell a compelling, fictionalized drama of those days centering on homeless LGBT youth, specifically a young Midwestern gay man who is kicked out of his home for his sexuality and comes to New York, befriending the people who are actively involved in the events leading up to the riots and the riots themselves.
-the cast of Gods of Egypt
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Brenton Thwaites plays a young Egyptian thief who must team up with Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in order to take down Set (Gerard Butler). Also stars Geoffrey Rush, Rufus Sewell, Abbey Lee, Chadwick Boseman, and Elodie Yung and Emma Booth as other gods. Courtney Eaton plays the slave girl that Thwaites is trying to save.
-Last Days in the Desert
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As he wanders in the desert, Jesus Christ (Ewan McGregor) tangles with Satan (also McGregor) for the souls of a nomad (Ciarán Hinds) and his family (Tye Sheridan and Ayelet Zurer). This probably won't raise a fuss though since white washed Jesus has been a long accepted thing.
-Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell
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While Motoko Kusanagi is a cyborg therefore supposedly making her ethnicity "irrelevant", the cyberpunk story is set in a fictional Japanese city and follows a Japanese special ops team. This casting is following the trend of taking stories set in other countries and doing gymnastics to still focus on a white lead.
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Mara: No. When I heard Joe was doing it, I have wanted to work with him for a long time now. And when they told me that he was doing it and that he wanted to meet with me, I was like, “How is that going to work? I can’t play Tiger Lily.” Because I always thought of her as a Native American, because that’s always how she has been portrayed. I met with him anyway, because I love him, and I asked how this is going to work. Then he showed me all these images that he had of all these different cultures around the world. He explained to me what his vision was for the Native Village and it just made sense to me. They are natives of Neverland, and it’s a completely made up place. Then it just made sense to me.
-Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in Doctor Strange
The Ancient One is Doctor Strange's mentor and while it's interesting the role has been genderbent, one should also note that the Ancient One is also a Tibetan man who was born and raised in a village in the Himalayas.
-Gemma Arterton as Miss Justineau in She Who Brings Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts follows Melanie, a special little girl akazombie child who still has higher brain functions, in the post-apocalypse. Miss Justineau is one of her favorite teachers that she adores. This is how Miss Justineau is described in the book.
Although Miss Justineau’s face stands out anyway because it’s such a wonderful, wonderful colour. It’s dark brown, like the wood of the trees in Melanie’s rainforest picture whose seeds only grow out of the ashes of a bushfire, or like the coffee that Miss Justineau pours out of her flask into her cup at break time. Except it’s darker and richer than either of those things, with lots of other colours mixed in, so there isn’t anything you can really compare it to. All you can say is that it’s as dark as Melanie’s skin is light.
They did racebend Melanie, who is white in the books, but considering the reveal in the story the casting of Arterton comes off even worse.
-Stonewall
Roland Emmerich's been getting lots of shit for inserting a white male OC to focus the narrative on as the leader of the riots rather than the actual transgender and/or women of color who were there and started the movement.
The director tried addressing the backlash his movie got. "The courageous actions of everyone who fought against injustice in 1969 inspired me to tell a compelling, fictionalized drama of those days centering on homeless LGBT youth, specifically a young Midwestern gay man who is kicked out of his home for his sexuality and comes to New York, befriending the people who are actively involved in the events leading up to the riots and the riots themselves.
"I understand that following the release of our trailer there have been initial concerns about how this character’s involvement is portrayed, but when this film — which is truly a labor of love for me — finally comes to theaters, audiences will see that it deeply honors the real-life activists who were there — including Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Ray Castro — and all the brave people who sparked the civil rights movement which continues to this day. We are all the same in our struggle for acceptance."
-the cast of Gods of Egypt
Brenton Thwaites plays a young Egyptian thief who must team up with Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in order to take down Set (Gerard Butler). Also stars Geoffrey Rush, Rufus Sewell, Abbey Lee, Chadwick Boseman, and Elodie Yung and Emma Booth as other gods. Courtney Eaton plays the slave girl that Thwaites is trying to save.
-Last Days in the Desert
As he wanders in the desert, Jesus Christ (Ewan McGregor) tangles with Satan (also McGregor) for the souls of a nomad (Ciarán Hinds) and his family (Tye Sheridan and Ayelet Zurer). This probably won't raise a fuss though since white washed Jesus has been a long accepted thing.
-Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell
While Motoko Kusanagi is a cyborg therefore supposedly making her ethnicity "irrelevant", the cyberpunk story is set in a fictional Japanese city and follows a Japanese special ops team. This casting is following the trend of taking stories set in other countries and doing gymnastics to still focus on a white lead.
source:1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10
feel free to bring up more