Emma Stone yelling out 'I'M SORRY!' for taking the white-washed role in Aloha lives rent-free in my mind.
21 Offensive Movies That These Actors Should've Stayed Away From With A Ten-Foot Pole — And 6 That Actors Admitted They Regret Takinga comedy about a man who has not yet told his pregnant fiancé that most of his family has dwarfism. In fact, his twin brother has dwarfism. Naturally, this brother is played by Oscar-winneraround on his knees. He also wore prosthetics, inexplicably had a hump, and used harnesses to make his arms shorter.
Wolff did not appear to address criticism, though producer Roy Lee defended his casting and the overall"whitewashing" claims."I can understand the criticism ... if our version ofwas set in Japan and characters that were Japanese-named or of Japanese ancestry," he said. But this version, he said, was"an interpretation of that story in a different culture, so there are going to be some obvious changes. Some people will like them, some people may not.
"We thought we were being so smart and so cutting-edge," he said. “We’re not going to do the cliché of the wizened, old, wise Asian man. But it was a wake-up call to say, ‘Well, wait a minute, is there any other way to figure it out? Is there any other way to both not fall into the cliché and cast an Asian actor?’ And the answer to that, of course, is yes.
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