Comments on: 10 Ethnically-Challenged Casting Choices of Hollywood

By: Barbwire

Barbwire — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:08:05 +0000

I used to wonder about this when I was a kid ('40s and '50s). Sabu was real, wasn't he?

By: Cassie

Cassie — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:28:46 +0000

Mickey Rooney always makes me cringe whenever I watch BaT. Good choice for number one.

I thought Angelina Jolie was amazing as Marianne Pearl. What made it so much more meaningful, to me, was that Marianne is good friends with Angelina and Brad and specifically asked Angie to play her and Brad to direct.

Damn, that movie was good.

By: whoa

whoa — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:07:00 +0000

in the movie "21", most of the characters should have been Asian. And in the movie "A mighty heart" Angelina Jolie played Daniel Pearl's widow, who is a black woman

By: Viola

Viola — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:00:53 +0000

I've never heard of it, but now I'm going to look into it.

By: bean

bean — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:48:57 +0000

Has anyone ever heard of a movie called White Girls, the plot of which is centered around two African-Americans spending the entire movie in whiteface?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:47:30 +0000

John Wayne as an Asian was the most bizarre ever.

Ben Kingsley can play anyone convincingly. Now THERE's an actor!

By: GQ

GQ — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:37:35 +0000

What about any American actor attempting to play Irish? (Actual Irish, that is. You know, someone *from* Ireland?)

By: Viola

Viola — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:53:32 +0000

Italians can't be from the Bronx?

In a related story, who's Jennifer Lopez?

The Usual Suspects is one of my favorite movies, but Pete Postlethwaite did confuse the heck out of me. Can't lie.

By: Cutie Cutes

Cutie Cutes — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:59:13 +0000

What about Jennifer Lopez playing an Italian in The Wedding Planner complete with thick Boricua/Bronx accent?

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:19:45 +0000

I guess it maybe because there aren't many ethnic casting choices out there. That and the ones that are available either cater to a stereotypical role or to one that obviously isn't a strong role (i.e. background character).

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:57:24 +0000

It's fitting that Breakfast of Tiffany's is number one, that is the ultimate example. Another example is Henry Silva playing a North Korean in the classic "Manchurian Candidate," a total laugher. Recently, I question the choice of Angelina Jolie as Marianne in "A Mighty Heart."

By: Tony LaRocca

Tony LaRocca — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:45:31 +0000

They left off one of my favorites - the Dr. Who episode "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," which co-starred British actor John Bennett as a Chinese villain, complete with bad makeup, bad (ls instead of rs) accent, opium smoking, and a secret lair (where else) in a Chinese laundromat. The ironic thing is that it's such a spectacular story!