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Rather than bringing in an actor of Iranian descent to play the titular Persian prince in the 2010 film, Disney cast Gyllenhaal in the role. Nearly 10 years later, heYahoo Entertainment that he regretted taking the role, saying,"I think I learned a lot from that movie in that I spend a lot of time trying to be very thoughtful about the roles that I pick and why I’m picking them.
Fans were torn about the casting — the Ringer pointed out that"many Japanese Americans may find Johansson's casting in aIt wasn't the last time Johansson would find herself at the center of a casting controversy. Just a couple years after. She ultimately left the project following criticism about a cisgender woman playing a transgender man — but not before commenting on the backlash.
Neeson played the Bruce Wayne mentor/villain — who was portrayed as Middle Eastern in the comic books — in 2005 .This particular instance is one of the most perplexing, because it's not just another time when a white actor was chosen to play the role of an actual person of color, or a character of color from a book. Allison Ng is a character unique to the film, and describes herself as being a quarter-Hawaiian and a quarter-Chinese — neither of which Stone is.
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