>Last week, when Ed Skrein was excited to announce that he would be playing the character of Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen. In the comics, the character is of Asian heritage and there was an immediate backlash from the APA community. Today, Skrein took to Twitter responding to the public outcry saying, “I must do what I feel is right” and announced that he would be stepping down from the role.
>Hellboy producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin and Lionsgate & Millennium made a statement to Deadline saying, “Ed came to us and felt very strongly about this. We fully support his unselfish decision. It was not our intent to be insensitive to issues of authenticity and ethnicity, and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material.”
The other thread is still up about this. Please learn to use the catalog before shit posting. Also who gives a shit about Ed Skrein.
Josiah Moore
Yeah listen to the guy spamming game of thrones threads
Evan Martin
biggest problem with color blind casting right here
Zachary Cooper
Gee Bill, TWO alt right crying threads?
Blake Butler
>only the alt-right cares about this (You)
Jacob Green
Wouldn't that be reverse?
Tyler Long
Who? And Hellboy sucks.
Its like caring if they rebooted Blade. Learn from Spidetman, it's been done hollywood, move on!
Christian Lewis
what website did you all come from? reddit or something else.
Robert Rogers
>hide all the alt-right pussies crying about everything threads >peace on Sup Forums >b-b-but the SJWs are just as bad on this site!!! What did he mean by this?
Julian Johnson
Shouldn't you be in Sup Forums?
Benjamin White
This is an anonymous imageboard where there isn't a restriction on free speech faggot, go back to ledd1t
Jackson Morales
Why are on-topic threads being deleted whilst off-topic threads with links to patreon accounts being left up?
Charles Nelson
i asked that same question and my guess is that either janimod is paid by studio to del nega publicity or janimod is triggered by the topic or was btfo in the thread can't think of good reply so decided to delete thread.
Nathaniel Torres
and i expect janimod to give me a warning with some lame excuse like not contributing to quality of board or something for posting this
Evan Cox
Why is this shit an issue, then it's totally fine to make L a nigger in Death Note?
All this whiny shit does is actually make people more racist.
Owen Cruz
This is happening in the same movie yet this mongrel isn't stepping down
Ryder Green
>and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material
Funny how they never think about this when replacing a ginger character for a black actor/actress.
Kevin Brown
That's progress goyim !
Dylan Powell
Now watch what happens after. For everyone who complains "omg, Hollywood is so SJW" and shit, they'll find out this is not the case when Ed Skrein finds difficultly finding any work in Hollywood after this. The uppers of Hollywood doesn't give a shit about any of that (only some actors and some directors), they use it to try to make money. Ed Skrein just made them look bad and openly talked about it. He won't find work easy to come by from now on.
Hollywood is going to fuck his career over there for not staying in line. He'll need to move on to find work elsewhere.
Julian Brooks
An entire thread discussing Sup Forums shit left up
Evan Richardson
>>Hellboy producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin
Jose Anderson
So, will actors stop being in movies that blackwash?
Ryan Nguyen
no
Aiden Myers
>we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material > consistent with the character in the source material > consistent with the character in the source material
Oh, you mean like Heimdall as he was in norse mythology? Or Liz Allen as she was in Spiderman? Or Domino as she was in Deadpool? Or Roland Deschain as he as in the Dark Tower books? Or Tulip as she was in Preacher? etc, etc,
Jack Baker
wait, didnt they already blackwash a white character in this very same movie?
is she gonna be switched?
Joseph Bailey
Yeah, but lets stick in niggers everywhere.
Fucking faggots
James Gomez
>we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material.
This should be done with everything, not just non-white roles.
>capeshit
not worth watching
Nicholas Miller
Oh boy another Asian role for Ken Watanabe! I can't wait!
Sebastian Powell
Electro, Valkyrie, Gamora (was coded white for decades), Starfire (ditto), etc
Sebastian Jenkins
at least this means a white James Bond is safe
Josiah Murphy
It's because of the infection of postmodernism and neo-marxism into public discourse. What were once, obscure theories about power structures and oppression has leaked into the mainstream. So now we don't think of people as individuals, we think of them as members of identity groups all competing for power.
Dylan Watson
to be fair, whites can't complain about race-lifting because they'd look "racist"
Parker White
Reverse domino is a good way to have the spot and not have it be some weird fucking dalmation looking generic white bitch
Evan Russell
You don't have to make it that complex for him, just say that the media and the education system has spent the last three or four decades teaching white people to hate themselves and place no value on themselves. And it's been so successful that whites see a white character being replaced by a different race as good and wonderful, and see the opposite as evil and hateful.
Adam Foster
So that's an other reboot to discard without watching.
Sebastian Ward
It literally is only okay to change white characters. What a joke of a society we live in.
Leo Davis
>generic white bitch wow racist
Dylan Russell
This.
It would have been better if those filty niggs step down.
That will actually mean a lot more
Landon Morris
wait, people actually give a shit about asians?
t. hong kongnese
Ayden Thompson
I couldnt care less desu. Hollywood is something different, its far away from reality and full of self entitled people. Opinions become more and more redundant in this business and normal people bite into this crap.
You cant argue with such people, in their mind they will always be right about this. For them, color is important. These people are new age racists but with a twist to the left.
Jacob King
Good.
Ideally they should find an Japanese/American actor. Then Asian/White. Then Asian, then white.
Aaron Kelly
Niggers call dominoes 'bones' btw
Chase Torres
>“I must do what I feel is right”
in other words: "I want nothing to do with the inevitable shitstorm my casting will cause."
Jose Butler
Please be quiet racist nazi bigot cismalescum it's not the same it's alright when it's a white character.
Luis Morris
agree or disagree, its disingenous to call it hypocrisy while comparing it to so-called blackwashing
whites are obviously over-represented in Hollywood, so when a white person takes a role that was originally black/asian/whatever this is working against the cause of balancing out the representation
when a white character is played by a minority, this serves to help eliminate the discrepancy
again, you dont have to agree with the cause, and I'm sure most don't, but your either a retard or arguing in bad faith if you question why they don't do the same for blackwashing
Juan Roberts
>current year >casting white "people" in a film
Jonathan Foster
Domino is Asian you dip
Levi Lopez
>whether it's ok or not depends on the color of the skin
contradictory retard (You)
Josiah Sanchez
>didnt even read the post
Benjamin Johnson
what about the rampant niggerwashing?
Julian Rogers
>whites are obviously over-represented in Hollywood
Blacks are 12 percent of the American population. If they are in more than 12 percent of Hollywood roles they are actually the ones who are over-represented.
Additionally, according to the last US census Black/White couples are one of the rarest pairings in the united states, representing less than one percent of the couples in America. The only rarer one is Black/Asian, which is so rare it almost doesn't exist.
So, if Black/White couples in movies and television are shown to be more prevalent than one percent of the time then they are actually over-represented. Of course as we know from the last few years of Disney alone they show up on screen about 40% of the time. In fact in Homecoming Peter Parker had TWO black love interests and his antagonist The Vulture was married to a black woman and had a black daughter.
The only reason there would be this massive a mathematical discrepancy between reality and Hollywood reality would be if they are trying to change the way people think, and get them to accept something that is rare as commonplace.
Nathan Murphy
>blacks are 13% of population >still manage to be present in every fucking film and given key roles left and right >underrepresented
Really activates the old almonds, user
Matthew Morgan
>recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material the absolute state of jewllygood
Adam Robinson
>implying
Henry Myers
Numbers vary based on year and how the data is gathered (eg. lead roles only, all speaking roles) but the highest percentage I've seen for blacks in hollywood films is 11%, with most between 6-10%.
As for the interacial part, 9% of married blacks are married to white people. Not really sure why you brought that up though.
I never said that Hollywood doesnt have a liberal bias or isnt pushing some agenda, just that its wrong to compare whitewashing and blackwashing (or any other minoritywashing) as true equivalents.
Gavin Reed
>9% of married blacks are married to white people
This is completely irrelevant. We are not talking about representation within the black community, we are talking about the representation of these couples within the total population. You can work out from your own numbers what I'm saying is true. 9% of the black community which is around 12% of total population works out to around one percent of total couples.
That is what's relevant to what we are discussing; the total amount of black/white couples in America. Which is around 1% of all couples in America. The reason I'm bringing it up is you are talking about direct representation and over/under representation in media, and I'm pointing out that black/white romantic pairs, especially among leading characters, are so ridiculously massively overrepresented in Hollywood and UK movies and television shows that it's a farce statistically.
The only time there is this kind of massive distortion is when someone has an agenda and is trying to change the way you think.
Andrew Parker
what type of relationships would you like to see represented?
Daniel Long
I would like to see reality represented.
We know what America looks like in the real world. If you are making a film set in America in our time then what reason is there to distort things demographically unless you have an agenda. If you were an alien and only gained information on the demographics of America from watching Hollywood movies, especially Disney, you would conclude that America is about 60% white, 30% black, 9% Latino and 1% Asian, and you would also think that black/white couples represent about 30-40% of the couples in America.
You would think similar things about the UK when in reality the UK is only about 3 percent black. 3 percent! Yet in UK television shows they are about 20-30% of characters and again 30-40% of couples.
Evan Thompson
got a source for a single one of those numbers?
Colton Flores
>>Caring about the source material when it's a non-white caring >>Give no fucks when the source material is a white character. How do they keep getting away with this?
Ethan Wilson
this is dumb as shit who wants to see asians in movie? there isn't a single good asian actor anyways
>theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/24/diversity-race-gender-media-television >After a campaign led by Sir Lenny Henry, the BBC pledged to increase the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic people on air by more than 40% as long ago as June 2014, as well as to almost double the number of senior managers from those groups who work at the corporation by 2020.
James White
>posting literal alt right conspiracy shit
ok i see, the problem is that your mom didn't abort you when she had the chance.,
John Cook
The guardian is alt right? Demographic data from the UK census is alt-right?
Andrew Cooper
Facts are racist, sweetie
Andrew Thomas
>uk kek
Isaac Torres
I should have learned this by now desu.
Parker Thomas
test
Ryan Cook
>You didn't see LaKeith Stanfield drop out when cast to play L. >You didn't see Michael B Jordan drop out when cast to play Human Torch. > You didn't see Ruth Negga drop out when she was cast to play Tulip O'Hare. >You didn't even see Zazie Beetz drop out when cast to play a character fucking named Domino for Christ sakes.
I really hope this was just the Studio telling him to fuck off, or I would really think this guy is a pussy. And either scenario would severely disappoint me.
Jace Rogers
I hope a black guy gets the role just to see if he's also asked to step down
Noah King
Not in hollywood
Brandon Smith
wew, someone with a backbone to actually keep the comics in line with the adaption
i dont like a hellboy reboot but i gotta give them props and that actor for not necessarily giving in, but acknowledging the bullshit that Marvel is doing
also >muh boogeyman the other team is doing it, you dolts, but when its the other way around, its progressive
Austin Diaz
>Zazie Beetz drop out when cast to play a character fucking named Domino for Christ sakes. Honestly my complaint is that she is too light to be Domino (Yes know she's pale white in the comic). I've seen dominos come in two ways, white with black spots, or black with white spots. So if you're going to cast a black girl why not a dark to actually look like a domino.