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He's 1/128 Polynesian, it's fine.
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That's the Ice King from The 100, isn't it?
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May 10, 2017 19:45
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He's The Russian from SHIELD
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May 10, 2017 19:48
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CelticPredator posted:Is this a prequel to Max: Head of the FBI? No, that movie was just terminated.
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May 10, 2017 20:02
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raditts posted:That's the Ice King from The 100, isn't it? Yeah, he was also on Black Sails and the US version of Shameless.
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May 10, 2017 20:08
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The Cameron Crowe school of casting Hawaiian characters.
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May 10, 2017 20:11
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How many native Hawaiians are actors with contacts in/access to Hollywood? There can't be that many.
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May 11, 2017 01:43
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I have a friend named Mapuana and she and her gaggle of Hawaiian actresses go apeshit whenever this happens.
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May 11, 2017 01:48
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kiimo posted:I have a friend named Mapuana and she and her gaggle of Hawaiian actresses go apeshit whenever this happens. Lou Diamond Phillips is my favorite on-screen Mexican not really played by a Mexican. Followed by Cliff Curtis.
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May 11, 2017 01:51
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Cliff Curtis has done it so often now that I kind of forget he's not Mexican.
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May 11, 2017 01:52
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Cliff Curtis can be anything he wants.
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May 11, 2017 01:52
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kiimo posted:Cliff Curtis can be anything he wants. he is, in that way, the dramatic version of Fred Armisen (a Venezuelan/Japanese/German man who, until SNL actually hired a non-Kenan black man, played Barack Obama as well as literally all of the Arabic dictators/rulers SNL ever needed)
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kiimo posted:Cliff Curtis can be anything he wants. 
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May 11, 2017 06:23
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I still hate myself for being dumb enough to see that movie.
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May 11, 2017 06:30
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The TV show The Expanse went to a lot of trouble to cast the character Bobbie Draper, who was described in the novels as a tall muscular woman of Polynesian descent. In the end they found a 5'11" Samoan actress in New Zealand who just happened to be an ex boxer. http://www.indiewire.com/2017/02/the-expanse-bobbie-draper-frankie-adams-season-2-casting-1201779336/
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May 11, 2017 06:47
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The TV show The Expanse went to a lot of trouble to cast the character Bobbie Draper, who was described in the novels as a tall muscular woman of Polynesian descent. In the end they found a 5'11" Samoan actress in New Zealand who just happened to be an ex boxer. The fun part of that character is, whenever other characters or the naration describes her, they do a great job highlighting the author's very clear tall woman fetish. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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May 11, 2017 07:24
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Snowman_McK posted:The fun part of that character is, whenever other characters or the naration describes her, they do a great job highlighting the author's very clear tall woman fetish. Not that there's anything wrong with that. The question is of course, who of the two authors has the fetish?
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May 11, 2017 07:47
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basic hitler posted:How many native Hawaiians are actors with contacts in/access to Hollywood? There can't be that many. I mean the onus is kind of on Hollywood to go and find them in this situation. I'm sure whatever studio is making this can manage flying some people out to Hawaii and doing auditions.
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May 11, 2017 10:32
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Hawaii is also an American state so it's not like there's VISA dramas, language barriers or anything. It's one of the easier places to cast from, you'd think.
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May 11, 2017 10:38
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Something something Emma Stone.
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May 11, 2017 10:42
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There's 7 billion people on the planet, most of them aren't white, most of them would probably say yes to getting a role in a movie or tv show that was offered, yet somehow, we have to wonder where they're going to find someone that fits a given physical description
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Snowman_McK posted:There's 7 billion people on the planet, most of them aren't white, most of them would probably say yes to getting a role in a movie or tv show that was offered, yet somehow, we have to wonder where they're going to find someone that fits a given physical description Summer tentpoles just don't have the budget to go to that kind of effort, man.
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May 11, 2017 13:07
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Sometimes I wonder if casting people in the US have ever seen a non-white person that wasn't someone they'd hired for manual labor.
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May 11, 2017 13:27
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Was there ever anything in those leaked Sony emails that showed producers saying things like "Make sure the lead is white. People won't go see movies about any brownies or chinks."? It seems like notes like that would be fairly common.
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dirksteadfast posted:Was there ever anything in those leaked Sony emails that showed producers saying things like "Make sure the lead is white. People won't go see movies about any brownies or chinks."? It seems like notes like that would be fairly common. There was a discussion about how it's okay to have African American actors star in smaller films made for domestic audiences but not for 'event' films they need to do well overseas http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/12/sony-email-hack-denzel-washington-black-leads-international-audience-racist/
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May 11, 2017 15:46
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And then on the flipside try casting, oh I don't know, a black man as James Bond and watch the fury bubble
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May 11, 2017 17:14
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People should be mad because then it's a wasted opportunity. I say Asian Bond next Bond.
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May 11, 2017 17:39
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Someone was photoshopping John Cho into action movie posters and it was cool as gently caress and I'd definitely go and see a John Cho led action movie.  ruddiger fucked around with this message at 17:56 on May 11, 2017 |
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dirksteadfast posted:Was there ever anything in those leaked Sony emails that showed producers saying things like "Make sure the lead is white. People won't go see movies about any brownies or chinks."? It seems like notes like that would be fairly common. Not Sony email stuff, but there was Ridley Scott's comments for his Exodus movie: "I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn't even come up."
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Alien Convergence (from Asylum) trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpmn-_wKHk
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Red Bones posted:I mean the onus is kind of on Hollywood to go and find them in this situation. I'm sure whatever studio is making this can manage flying some people out to Hawaii and doing auditions. My point is that Hollywood is an insanely insular, incestuous place as a matter of course, and really risk averse. Like, the kind of risk you take in finding new talent to fill in a minority lead you can thoughtlessly shove a tan white dude into is something I can see them doing without malice.
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Backtracking to say that an Edge of Tomorrow sequel is going to sorely miss Bill Paxton
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ALFbrot posted:Backtracking to say that an Edge of Tomorrow sequel is going to sorely miss Bill Paxton No reason it has to. 
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Chairman Capone posted:Not Sony email stuff, but there was Ridley Scott's comments for his Exodus movie: "I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn't even come up." Comedy answer: Oliver Stone
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High School Musical? Pah! What about High School Musical With Zombies???quote:Disney Channel has announced the start of production on Zombies, a new TV movie musical, this time featuring teen zombies from Zombietown who join the human classmates of Seabrook High School and set into motion an unexpected romance between a human cheerleader named Addison (American Housewife's Meg Donnelly) and a zombie football star named Zed (Ghost Whisperer's Milo Manheim). http://www.tvguide.com/news/disney-channel-musical-movie-zombies/
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Excuse me, they are "undead-Americans" now. This reminds me that the cast of Disney Channel Movie Camp Rock wants the 3rd one to be R-rated because they and their fans are all adults now. To be fair, Demi Lovato and the Jones brothers are all singing way sexier songs now. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 02:22 on May 12, 2017 |
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Stuff about White Hollywood is particularly odd now that Get Out is a monster hit, Moonlight made huge waves, and Fast/Furious is an intersectional phenomenon. There's an audience out there goddamnit. High School Zomboosical sounds like a fevered pitch by Tina Belcher.
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May 12, 2017 01:22
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Zed is such a lazy main character zombie name.
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A thing about capitalism is businesses don't actually respond that quickly to changes in the market. They hang on to received wisdom and are subject to all sorts of confirmation bias. If Wonder Woman performs at or over expectations it may or may not lead to more female-led tent poles, but if it underperforms at all it'll be "proof" that female superheroes don't sell. Movies are especially unpredictable, so executives, especially those who come from other industries, try to lean on anything that seems like a hard and fast rule.
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Judging by the first commercial I've seen for it just now, I can't wait for The Adventures of Some Guy, Featuring Wonder Woman.
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