With all the money in Hollwood, you'd think that they can come up with better casting choices, especially when it comes to ethnic roles.
Take for instance, Swedish actor Warner Oland, who was hired to play Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu in the 1930s (he did it in "yellowface"). That may be norm back then, when Hollywood didn't want to hire authentic Asian actors, but what about now?
Cineleet blog has an interesting post about 10 bizarre ethnically-challenged casting choices: Link
Recently, I question the choice of Angelina Jolie as Marianne in "A Mighty Heart."
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.
Ben Kingsley can play anyone convincingly. Now THERE's an actor!
And in the movie "A mighty heart" Angelina Jolie played Daniel Pearl's widow, who is a black woman
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.