Do you really think they’re going to cast an entire Hollywood movie with Thai actors??
Like that stupid Boat show, the family is supposed to be from Taiwan, but the dad is Korean-American, or Korean-American Harold from Harold & Kumar playing Sulu, who’s Nippoonese.
How is that not racially insensitive?
If you distill it down to its core reasoning, they’re literally going “It’s OK, because he’s got the same black hair and squinky eyes”, which is pretty friggin racist, man.
Most of the Taiwanese people I know don’t consider Koreans or Nipponesers to be any closer to them ethnically than Ed friggin Sheeran.
Reminds me of that shit ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ film adaptation where all the Japanese characters were played by Chinese actresses. Hollywood is like “they’re yellow and have narrow eyes. They’re all the same.”
Yeah, that thing grates us raw at my house whenever it comes on.
Not only the heinous casting, as you say, but…
A movie about Asian women
Directed by a white dude
From a book written by a white dude
