ultimaton

Making the Kingpin black (which had literally no effect on the character whatsoever outside of his physical appearance) isn't really the same thing as, say, doing a white fella up in make-up and prosthetics so he can portray an Asian.

inri222

To each their own. I prefer this :

wishbone

Kinda hard for Louis C.K. to get the Latin widow peak back...

inri222

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_C.K.

Louis Szekely

C.K.'s paternal grandfather, a Hungarian Jew, emigrated to Mexico, where he met C.K.'s paternal grandmother, who was a Catholic Mexican of Spanish and Mexican Indian ancestry. C.K.'s father was born in Mexico, while C.K.'s mother is an American of Irish Catholic ancestry, originally from a farm in Michigan.

Mabuse

So he's only 1/4 ethnic Mexican. A jewish refugee has a kid with a Mexican and that kid has a kid with an Irish American. He certainly looks more Irish than Mexican.

Same thing with Uma Thurman. I'm going to bet that while Nena von Schlebrügge may have been born in Mexico City she was decidedly more European than Mexican. Oy, what a name!

GoldenJCJ

But mock outrage and being offended is all we have left! I suppose Obama wants to take that away from us too!

foofighters7

Well, of course I would prefer to cast someone for a Chinese character who is actually Chinese. That's just common sense.

It's like a white american playing a white South African or Russian. I don't see any issue with it because I don't view White Person A any better than white person B. Sure, culturally they are not the same. Just because both appear to simply be white doesn't mean they are the same but it wouldn't bother me. It would really boil down to who's best for the role and the bottom line is just because the character is _____ doesn't mean that an actor from ______ is really the best for the role.

Clearly, not all Asians are the same. I know this because I generally find Japanese girls and Koreans hotter than Chinese but for a film role I don't see any issue with a Japanese playing a Chinese person, or whatever. (I do find it annoying when a lighter skin Asian is playing a character from a generally darker skinned Asian country).

majorjoe23

I'll admit that MCD was really shitty at pulling off being a white guy in that movie. Maybe if they had shown him driving with hands at 10 and 2.

Tom Creo

Man Hayworth was smokin' hot. Cansino, not so much.

Guru Askew

That's the difference that some people in this thread don't get. There's a world of difference between casting a black guy because it doesn't matter if the character is black or white and casting a black guy and putting him in whiteface to pass him off as white.

Groucho

I'd like to Shawshank her Redemption.

Which reminds me: Morgan Freeman as "Red" in The Shawshank Redemption.

Timber

He was Irish. Maybe...

RocShemp

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EddieMoney

Michael Madsen as Sonny "Black" in Donnie Brasco.

Jaymole

inri222

zoomgirl

I completely agree with this. In the movie The Bone Collector the main character is played by Denzel Washington. I liked the movie enough that I bought the book and read it. I was very surprised that the character was white in the book. The next year I met the author and asked if the casting had bothered him and he replied pretty much the same thing. It didn't matter the color of the casting because of how the character was written.

ultimaton

"Yo, check this out, Black Kingpin beats the shit out of Daredevil like this: boop boop hoop, yeah but White Kingpin, he beats the shit out of Daredevil like this: be de be dee."

E Unit

Let's not forget this other fine Arab. Although I guess we can argue that since he's from Spain which was conquered by Moors, this qualify's him. Already too much thinking....

Hiro11

Long Duk Dong is ridiculously offensive




but still funny?

inri222

A Frenchman portraying a Scot and a Scot portraying a Spaniard. I love it!!!

moviefan2k4

Ramirez was Egyptian, not Spanish; he merely worked for Charles V as a metallurgist.

wishbone

Another Egyptian portrayal,

DaveyJoe

Pizza

But Denzel acts more neutral than most white actors.


I always found the natives in King Kong vs. Godzilla to be interesting.