Comments on: 5 Unintentionally Racist Casting Decisions

By: Susana Holt

Susana Holt — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:41:00 +0000

No worst casting than Chuck Connors playing Geronimo.

By: Jynx712

Jynx712 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:34:00 +0000

Also wasn’t his character an adopted street urchin. I don’t think he was actually meant to be native Persian. He was a Prince of Persia because he was treated like his son.

By: Gtard

Gtard — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 21:05:00 +0000

By that logic one can argue that every modern ethnic group is an ancient African. So when do I get my shot at playing a brotha?

By: Zonny2008

Zonny2008 — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:31:00 +0000

I wish that the person who post this come to Puerto Rico and realizes that there are a lot of white skinned Puerto Ricans.

By: Zonny2008

Zonny2008 — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:31:00 +0000

I wish that the person who post this come to Puerto Rico and realizes that there are a lot of white skinned Puerto Ricans.

By: Shira

Shira — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:57:00 +0000

The fact that you think anyone who’s not the ethnicity of the part shouldn’t be allowed to act as that role is racist, you’re a hypocrite

By: Smoog

Smoog — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:36:00 +0000

Anyone seen ‘Vertical Limits’? It has Temuera Morrison – a Maori from New Zealand playing a Pakistani Helicopter pilot. He’s a damn good actor except he can’t lose his kiwi accent, even when he’s speaking in Pakistani. Guess there are Indians/Pakistanis actors…
He also played Jango Fett but I guess you can’t really accuse Hollywood of racist casting as Jango is an alien

Tem was in ‘Once were Warriors’, a NZ movie about a severely dysfunctional Maori family. One of his mates in that movie was Cliff Curtis, who is a fantastic actor.
He’s since appeared in several Hollywood movies playing basically every coloured race out there, other than Maori. He’s played a Columbian terrorist in ‘Collateral Damage’, Pablo Escobar in ‘Blow’, a Cuban in ‘Runaway Jury’ and a Mexican gangster in ‘Training Day’. Hollywood had to hire a Maori from New Zealand to play these roles because, presumably, there aren’t any Latinos in Los Angelos…
He’s also played a a Kurdish fighter in ‘Three Kings’ and an Iranian in ‘Crossing Over’ (again, we must assume that there are no Middle Eastern actors in Hollywood).
At least Hollywood is finally choosing a dark skinned actor to play these roles and not just hiring a blond white guy and sending a gopher off to the nearest shoe shop for some polish. Guess it is progress of a sorts.

By: Smoog

Smoog — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:36:00 +0000

By: Danyeller1980

Danyeller1980 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:19:00 +0000

Betcha didn’t know that ;J

By: Danyeller1980

Danyeller1980 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:09:00 +0000

Actually (& y’all, don’t hate me for being a know-it-all or whatever, but) John Wayne IS a little Mongolian! 16,000-ish years ago the people who are the present day Mongolian population had a chunk of them cross over a now non-existant “land bridge” between the northern parts of the eastern Asian Continent & the western North American Continent. Every Native American tribe that has ever existed has descended from those who crossed over the land bridge. John Wayne is part Apache, so he’s really part ancient Mongolian.

By: Brklyngirl4life219

Brklyngirl4life219 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:39:44 +0000

Well, I'm a light-skinned Puerto Rican and and my friends make fun of me by calling me “Goya” as in the Spanish cracker. People usually confuse me for other ethnicities as well, so not all of us look the same. You're right.

By: Squishynothers

Squishynothers — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:36:01 +0000

The recent “10,000 B.C”.

By: Heimdal

Heimdal — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:28:51 +0000

http://www.comicvine.com/news/idris-elba-cast-a… this is perhaps even “intentional”. The aesir god known as the “whitest and fairest of them all”, will be portrayed by a BLACK man. Pathetic…

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:10:52 +0000

Casting Natalie Wood as Maria was racist? You've got to be kidding me.

By: Desmond G C Nel

Desmond G C Nel — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Apparently “21″ was quite racist.

By: kr1st0f

kr1st0f — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:06:18 +0000

Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel Vargas in 'A Touch Of Evil'.

By: Calic

Calic — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:40:29 +0000

i don't get how this is racist.

ehehe

By: ruth

ruth — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:18:17 +0000

Actually, Genghis Khan was Howard Hughes pet project. He refused to release it to theaters and kept it for his personal enjoyment for years. It's also the reason most of the cast eventually died of cancer in some form because it was filmed in the same area as the atom bomb tests that were going on. A fact they weren't too happy about.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:11:52 +0000

I have to agree with you there. People are uneducated when it comes to ethnic groups.

By: lurker

lurker — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:50:45 +0000

I like how most of the main cast in the Prince of Persia have middle eastern ancestry [Ben Kingsley is Indian, Gyllenhaal is a Jew, etc.] which sort of cancels out the assumed racism.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:01:38 +0000

Rita Moreno never played Maria in West Side Story on Broadway. Carol Lawrence did. And while she was nominated for a Tony, she didn't win. Rita Moreno's role (Anita) was created by Chita Rivera on Broadway.

By: Happyfeet

Happyfeet — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:07:24 +0000

Also the whole freakin cast of Avatar

By: Lisandro

Lisandro — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:26:37 +0000

This is a racist list by itself. Aren't there white puertoricans or persian? It's like american rednecks call all latinamerican “mexicans”