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16-12-2015, 04:34 PM | #1 | |||
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The 68-year-old plays a male Japanese fashion designer called Huki Muki in the forthcoming Ab Fab movie, set for release next summer, which has caused a number of fans to call the casting choice ‘racist’. Influential Korean American actress Margaret Cho, who appeared in the film Face/Off with John Travolta as well as television shows including Sex And The City, accused the film of ‘yellowface’, which she describes as ‘when white people portray Asian people. And unfortunately it’s happening in this film.’ ‘I am ********** sick of yellowface. Have some respect. Hire Asian actors for Asian roles,’ Cho fumes online. ‘I’m disgusted. Yellowface is racism. Sorry. It’s unacceptable. Not now. I was thrilled about [the] Ab Fab movie, but now I just can’t be. I’m very disappointed.’ She added: ‘When roles written for us are played by white actors — it’s an outrage. We’ve tried to shame racism out of existence but I guess some people really don’t care. They’re shameless but NOT BLAMELESS.’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...#ixzz3uVRak3Dx Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...#ixzz3uVRHL55O How you see this? |
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16-12-2015, 04:37 PM | #2 | ||
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16-12-2015, 04:40 PM | #3 | |||
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I don't think she did yellowface, doesn't look like it from those pictures. The character should never have been Japanese though.
(I have a feeling they wrote the role with Janette in mind) Last edited by Firewire; 16-12-2015 at 04:41 PM. |
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16-12-2015, 04:42 PM | #4 | |||
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16-12-2015, 04:45 PM | #5 | |||
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So Americans shouldn't play British, nor British Americans, what about poor Manuel in Fawlty Towers ... where will it all end
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16-12-2015, 04:46 PM | #6 | ||
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16-12-2015, 04:47 PM | #7 | |||
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I saw Shakespeare's Henry V, clearly a white man, starring a black actor as the king and it was the best production of Henry V I've ever seen. Edris Elba is being suggested as the next James Bond, again, clearly a white man if you've read the books. If a white man played Othello, and many have, is that racist too? How many actors have played Shylock or Fagin who aren't actually Jewish? Who cares? No one... Racism is about intent not about making people walk on eggshells over something that's obviously not meant to be an insult. Last edited by Livia; 16-12-2015 at 04:48 PM. |
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16-12-2015, 04:47 PM | #8 | |||
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16-12-2015, 04:57 PM | #9 | ||
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To be fair though. There is a bunch of actors who appear in Ab Fab and sometimes appear as different characters so it wasn't a case of "casting a white woman in an Asian role" but more writing a role for this particular actress that is also Asian. Nobody was going to get that part other than her.
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16-12-2015, 05:10 PM | #10 | |||
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Nice of them to still be giving Verne Troyer work anyway
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16-12-2015, 05:20 PM | #11 | |||
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Find it kinda funny Margaret Cho of all people is weeping over racial sensitivity after her painfully unfunny portrayal of North Korea at the golden globes this year.
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16-12-2015, 05:21 PM | #12 | |||
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16-12-2015, 05:23 PM | #13 | |||
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16-12-2015, 05:27 PM | #14 | |||
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Margaret Cho @margaretcho 53 mins53 minutes ago
Getting off Twitter for awhile to feed the homeless kids on my block(who happen to be white).I'm not racist+I am sickened by the accusation. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...1LkOXDsGzt2Sog |
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16-12-2015, 05:29 PM | #15 | |||
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The movie is clearly using a white actor to perpetuate exaggerated asian stereotypes, so is it appropriate in 2015? No. It's racist point blank.
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16-12-2015, 05:35 PM | #16 | |||
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16-12-2015, 05:39 PM | #17 | |||
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asians are not really a discriminated race though. asians actually do better in america than even whites in america. they are over performing. they need to be taken down a notch or two. (i mean the ones with the eyes, the east asians, not the brown kind)
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Why is the fact that it's a white actor important though? Surely the whole point of acting is that they're portraying someone who isn't them, so why should they have to be same nationality? If the movie itself is racist then that's a different matter but I disagree with the principle that if a character is asian they HAVE to pick an asian actor, regardless of who is best for the role, because that is positive discrimination, which is still discrimination.
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16-12-2015, 05:42 PM | #19 | |||
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last time I looked Japanese folk are small
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16-12-2015, 05:42 PM | #20 | |||
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Anne Widdecombe should sue for image copyright.
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16-12-2015, 05:43 PM | #21 | |||
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16-12-2015, 05:46 PM | #22 | |||
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It matters because if an asian actor is playing an exaggerated asian stereotype, then it is still problematic though the asian audience may still see the movie and see it as light-hearted - something that is not attacking them. If a white actor plays the exaggerated asian stereotype, there is the real risk that it could be interpreted as racist because it can be very easily viewed as mocking and generalising an ethnicity.
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16-12-2015, 05:46 PM | #23 | |||
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What. A crock o poo.
It's called acting love. Get over yourself...you didn't get the part. |
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16-12-2015, 05:49 PM | #24 | |||
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16-12-2015, 05:51 PM | #25 | |||
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