Top 20 Most Controversial Movie Castings of All Time
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These casting decisions drew the ire of fans, critics, or both! For this list, we’ll be looking at the most hotly-debated casting choices in Hollywood, no matter if they turned out well or not. Our countdown includes Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball, Johnny Depp as Tonto, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Chris Pratt as Mario, Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, and more! Which of these roles do you think worked out the best? Let us know in the comments!
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Which of these roles do you think worked out the best? Let us know in the comments!
Chris Pratt's Mario: "Mushroom Kindgom, here we come!"
Mark Ruffalo as Hulk
What game?
Role actor and actress some work some don't
Actor's are seriously the dumbest breed in the world. Except Arnold Scwarzenegger.
A lot of us had to put our foots in our mouths before Heath Ledger even said a word as the Joker. That’s how good he was. You knew the second he pulled off that mask you were about to experience something beyond dope. RIP Homeboy
I was surprised that Jared Leto's Joker wasn't in this video.
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@@shizukagozen777 same
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Quite true. I was thrown off and then, I STFU lol
Robert Downey Jr. and Heath Ledger, they really nailed it 👍
It’s going to get to the point where you watch Guardians of the Galaxy with your eyes shut and Drax is having a conversation with Mario about space stuff.
I feel like Amber Heard as Mera and Ezra Miller as the flash should be on this list. Controversies didn't show up until after their debuts, but many don't want them to appear in future movies, which they are planned to take part in as of now.
AH should be on 1 but what do you expect of the worst garbage channel on You Tube
They should get Emilia Clarke to play the role of Mera in the Aquaman sequel.
Also the fact that both r controversial people
One other problematic detail of Jennifer Lawrence's casting as Katniss is that, while never explicitly stated, Katniss's physical description strongly implies that she's Native American, which fits with her being an expert hunter and woodsman.
I've heard the same thing many times. When I recently re-read the books, all that is said about her physical appearance is that she has grey eyes, olive skin, and curly brown hair. Grey eyes and olive skin can apply to almost any ethnicity (Native American, Latin American, African American, Caucasian, or Asian) so that doesn't narrow things down the way people think it does. And it is never specified whether her hair is actually curly or just wavy (and considering she regularly keeps her hair in a braid and it's questionable due to her intense poverty whether she even owns a brush, let alone a quality one, it's much more likely it's just wavy). So honestly any ethnicity would've worked perfectly, which I think is brilliant on the writer's part because the reader can imagine her however they choose to. That being said, I read the books years before the movie was even announced, and I always pictured someone exactly like Lawrence when I was reading them.
interview with a vampire is one of my favourite films, the casting, set design, costumes are just *chef kiss*
Even to this day, I still remember everyone booing Heath Ledger for being casted as Joker. Now, everyone knows that his was the best portayal of the character as well as one of the greatest acting performances of all time!
I’m honestly neutral about Chris Pratt as Mario. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either. I’m sure it won’t ruin the Mario Movie.
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I think the debate is being completely blown out of proportion. If Sonic can sound totally different from his video game counterpart without anyone complaining, than Mario can too.
@@rokeYouuer Yep exactly.
Thankfully we have Jack Black to carry the movie as Bowser.
@@victorhernandez8723 Also, ngl but Charlie Day is a good choice for Luigi
Tom cruise totally proved everyone wrong in interview with a vampire he was amazing in the movie 🙂
I was there opening night. You should have heard the murmurs in the audience of surprise and the clapping.
He awoken a lot of people as a questionable vampire lol
Even the author Anne Rice herself was not happy Tom Cruise was cast as Lestat. She apologized to him after seeing his performance.
Chris Pratt's Mario: "Mushroom Kindgom, here we come!"
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I actually respect Sofia Copolla a lot. She realized she was not cut out for acting so she opted to be a director and that is where her talent clearly lies.
Seriously?! J-Law’s appearance is what sparked controversy?
Look I’m all for a solid book to media adaptation, but when it comes to a character’s appearance (depending on what that maybe) it shouldn’t be as important as the character’s internal characteristics, skills, & impact. I mean Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter didn’t had the same eye color as his book counterpart & yet the films made a cultural impact in media. Same thing that goes for characters like Tris Prior, Ruby Daly, Bella Swan, etc.
Appearance should matter for a character yes, but not as much as what’s within & most of the actors & actresses did just that!
Let’s just stick with Johnny as Captain Jack Sparrow and then some.
Why do you think the female lead Pirates of the Caribbean got canceled? Johnny Depp IS Captain Jack Sparrow
@@robynwolph3836 just like robert downey jy is iron man
@@christopherellis357 yup. No one replaces Johnny or Robert . And ironically they’re actually friends in real life
@@robynwolph3836 you mean Liz Swan? She is my favorite female character in that film
No thanks i enjoyed his performance in lone ranger as well as pirates of the Caribbean
At one point during the production of Being The Ricardos, Cate Blanchett was going to play Lucille Ball, but dropped out.
My friend once told me that Tom Cruise was one of the top choices to play Iron Man. But Marvel Studios chose Robert Downey Jr. instead because they liked him as a person.
I can't help but feel sorry for Sofia. She was clearly a last minute replacement for Winona, and not really comfortable in the role. Thankfully, Sofia's true passion lay in directing, not acting!
So why she didn't act believable ?
Not mentioned is the actress Rebecca Schaeffer, who on the day of a first audition for Godfather III, was murdered by an obsessed fan.
It was lose lose. Rider was offer by fox for Edward scissorhands and working with Tim burton / Johnny depp to quote the godfather “it was an offer she couldn’t refuse”
The re-cut was better. She wasn’t that bad, and yes, she’s a brilliant director.
For the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, I didn't know this was supposed to be a reboot, which is why I didn't mind the female cast. I thought it was something like a parallel universe.
I found that movie more disappointing than bad.
If Disney had bought Marvel before the 1st IRON MAN
They wouldn't cast someone like RDJ
Which proves that fortune favors the bold
Ugh! I still don't care who voices Mario! I still know that ALL the actors in The Super Mario Bros. Movie are going to be great!
I've never been more wrong when it came to pre-judging casting than Interview with the Vampire (not just Cruise, but also Pitt and Banderas). Neil Jordan got the best out of that cast. A close second might be the recent Batman movie. I thought 'the Twilight guy?' And while I think Paul Dano is a fine actor I didn't know he had menacing in his repertoire. They both proved me wrong.
Paul dano has played asshole roles before but a smart asshole. Robert Pattinson playing Batman was certainly a shock to the system but interview with a vampire was a perfect movie
So.. I guess we're not going to talk about the new snow white and the little mermaid..
Wait, what are they doing to Snow White...
@@Grimrapings Just going to say.. that my logic is like this..
If someone isn't ok with a white person playing a person of another color.. they shouldn't be ok with a person of another color playing a white person.. that's just hypocritical if you don't think so..
not going to lie.. I'm more ok with the actress who is going to play Ariel.. because I mean.. have you heard her voice? omg she is really talented.. buuuut the actress who is going to play snow white has actually written some pretty racy things on her twitter..
To whomever reads this.. if you think I'm a bad person you're totally free to think so.. but just remember what I said.. it's a two way street and not a one way street..
Since mermaids don’t really exist what is your point?
@@jaengen pigs that fly aren't real either so what's yours?
@@nathalieolsson6972 The girl playing Ariel who sings isnt something I haven’t heard before. She can for sure sing but it’s not out of this world or anything . Plus it was just a small snippet of the song that ppl making a fuss about. Not everyone likes the vocal run she does . I personally don’t care. But at the end of the day, nothing beats Jodi Bensons magical voice
I’ll never forget my reaction to RDJ playing Ironman “why would they cast that druggie burnout as a superhero?”
Then while watching it, having never read the comic, realized it was the role he was born to play. It’s just too bad they ruined the character and comic book movies in general by overdoing it and making “cinematic universes” a thing 🤦♂️
I was actually expecting the role of Iron Man to go to Bradley Cooper because he resembles Tony Stark from the comics.
But looking at RDJ, he put as much potential into it as how Michael Keaton did for Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Tom cruise character in the interview with vampire was the reason I had nightmares as a child when I first saw the film.
Great choice they choose him 👍🏿
In a way, John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead suffered greatly for The Conqueror. Apparently it was filmed near a former nuclear testing range in Utah. 41 people from the cast and crew on the film have died of cancer: John Wayne, Ms. Hayward and Agnes Moorehead, along with the director Dick Powell, most notably. I can't decide whether it is karmic justice or bad government politics. (They didn't know where they were filming, because the government didn't tell them.)
It’s the studios fault for choosing a dangerous place to shoot the movie
Unfortunately with live action movies, it's not exactly easy to find a full cast that matches every single character that needs an actor to fill, with animated movies it's not that big of an issue as you don't need a massive cast and extras to fill every character's role
I keep wondering if the US was more lax with it's immigration laws during the 40s and 50s, it would be a little easier with more diversity.
WatchMojo seems to ignore anything where race casting wasn't white and controversial. You had:
Nick Fury played by Samuel L Jackson.
Idris Elba as Heimdal,
Ariel in Little Mermaid live adaption - this has more negative impact than Mario did,
Aquaman - played by Jason Mamoa,
Felix Leiter - played by Bernie Casey,
Judy Dench as "M" was controversial originally,
Kingpin in Daredevil being played by Michael Clarke Duncan,
Catwoman in Batman,
Bane in Batman being played by Tom Hardy,
Lawrence Fishburn playing Perry white in the newer Superman films.
Now, not all of these were bad choices, but they were controversial, often for race or gender swaps.
I feel like there's a big difference between people not thinking an actor can pull off a role (and in many cases we've been wrong in that regard, such as Heath Ledger as Joker) and people getting mad about whitewashing. Kinda feel like there should've been two separate videos tbh but that's just me
same thing
@@jimbo9208 not really?
@@meganhash7840 Two subtopics of a broader conversation. Certainly enough material to talk about separately.
@@robertbouley7697 Agreed
I'm equally mad about blackwashing characters from their source material. Why can't Hollywood just get characters that match the descriptions in books. Get the right actor that matches the description, both gender & race?
My problem with Ghostbusters (2016) wasn't really the casting, moreso it was the overall tone and the writing. Every character in this movie acts like they're in one of those over-the-top quirky rom-coms. Yeah I know it's Paul Feig and that's his style, but that's the point I'm trying to make.. he was the wrong choice for writing and directing this. And for anyone who says "no, you hate it because they were all females"... no, dude, that was honestly the most unique thing about this movie. Even if it were all male... if they used THAT script, it still would've sucked.
We can thank Tim Burton for bringing the Batman movies and in fact the popular animated series starring the late Kevin Conroy
Anyone else think Daniel Craig was super underrated as James Bond?
just you
I heard Christian Bale turned down the role of Bond, just to be Batman.
It's a shame because Bale is just like Bond, unlike the blonde and slightly-aged Daniel Craig.
I went to see the 2016s GHOSTBUSTERS because of PAUL FEIG
Even he let me down
And I, being the open minded person I think I am, went to see his subsequent movie A Simple Favor, one of the biggest wastes of money I've made for a single movie.
The old Ten Commandments and movies of that era had more persons of colour cast than modern reboots of the same.
I thought Jennifer Lawrence did an awesome job as Katniss, and I loved the Hunger Games movies
yes so did everyone but before the movie came out no one wanted here
@@jimbo9208 good to know opinions can change
Tom Cruise is Lestat De Lioncourt.🙏
RDJ has the best redemption arc in modern movie history. from being out of the business for drug possession and use to being THE FACE of the MCU. cant replace tony stark. especially with RiRi WiLlIaMs
I personally think the problem with the 2016 Ghostbusters was that it wasn’t Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. They should’ve kept Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and the two leads should’ve been Tina Fey and Amy Poehler I like Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy but I don’t think they worked as the two leads. We needed Amy Poehler as an Egon like nerdy socially awkward character. And then Tina Fey could’ve been the Venkman.
Oh, Tina and Amy would make any movie great (unless they filled it with a bunch of dirty jokes, but that’s just a personal preference).
I would have worked better if this version of the Ghostbusters were a co-Ed team.
Hopefully people will give the Mario movie a chance and not bash it. I'll give it a chance and see it.
I think Chris Pratt as Mario is fine, not great, but not bad either🤷🏻♂️
I can't believe someone cast john Wayne in that film 😂🤣😆
I read Interview With the Vampire in its first edition. When both Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt were cast I was aghast. As it turns out, Mr. Cruise was rather successful in the role, whereas Brad Pitt was truly, woefully miscast.
Jennifer Lawrence was brilliant as Katniss everdeen 💯
The biggest miscast for me was having Markey Mark and Spider-Man starring in the Uncharted movie
Y’all didn’t even include the Charlie Wright as Rodrick Heffly casting choice
i'm so sick of people needing sexual minority actors to do sexual minority roles. it's called ACTING. it doesn't matter who does it as long as they do a great job and are fit for the role. though i do agree that they should try and find actors of specific ethnicity to fill the needed ethnic roles.
also acting IS impersonating people you act as, if based on real people that is, so even though i haven't seen Being the Ricardos yet and Nicole seems to have done a good job i do wonder what kind of job Debra would've done because she NAILED it on Will & Grace.
as for Mario imagine changing his overalls to yellow or making him tall. it's the same thing with changing his voice. it looks like Mario but it's NOT Mario.
When was sexuality mentioned/relevant to this video?
@@trixicenby999 Eddie Redmayne - the danish girl - the first movie they mentioned in this list.
@@Therisktaker3 Which has nothing to do with sexual identity
@@trixicenby999 Actually looking back on old articles when the movie came out, that was a 'selling point' media websites were buzzing about. That was a lot of controversy.
@@Grimrapings Huh so weird, considering since the focus on the film is gender identity and not sexuality
I didn't know Tom Cruise was not wanted as Lestat. Fortunately he could be in the movie to give us one of his best performances imo.
If you're interested, read the article titled "No Tom Cruise!”: An Author and Her Fans’ Attempt to Sabotage a Hollywood Vampire" (I can't put a link because TH-cam censorship would take my comment down). I read it last summer, I was extremely surprised because I didn't know about it. At the same time, I've learned about the release of the series and I absolutely hate the actors that they casted for it.
@@shizukagozen777 thanks a lot for the info!
@@marval9119
You're welcome. :)
Actually, I can't imagine anybody but John Wayne in the role of Temujin.
It cracks me up!
I’m glad Yul Brynner as the King of Siam and Rameses didn’t get mentioned
Why? He’s played the King of Siam in the original production, of The King and I, several US Tours in 1976 and 1981 1977 and 1985 Broadway revival and in the 1979 UK Tour. And even if he isn’t Egyptian, at least he looks it in The Ten Commandments (1956).
@@hunterolaughlin because this video was about controversial casting choices and I thought Yul Brynner did excellent in those movies
Mamoru Oshii had no problem with Scarlet as the major thus no one else should...
why, she not Chinese why cast a white person when a Chinese person would have made more sense
@@jimbo9208 The skin color matters very little in a world where your body can have red eyes and purple hair and go completely unremarked upon. Imo the athletics and skills needed to bring The Major to life matter more than the color of her skin. They didn't have to say anything about why The Major looked the way she did than "I chose this form". Edited to add: another thing about the Anime especially is how much Russian influence there is, so Kusanagi could be part Russian, part Japanese, hence Caucasian coloring.
You're wrong about Ghostbusters 2016, it actually is pretty bad, even if women weren't in the leads, to me if there were a better script and storyline then maybe it would've been better and we could've given the franchise an even better legacy.
Yeah it wasn't bad because of the female leads...it was horrible because the script was horrible and the directing was terrible.
I agree, they could have proved everyone wrong, like some actors in the list. But the casting was... not the best. The script was awful. I watched it in cinema with my fiancé - the first thing she said after watching it was: "Why all the male bashing jokes?"
God, I loved Daniel Craig as James Bond and Heath Ledger as Joker!
I remember when everyone was making a big fuss about not only Henry Cavill playing Superman in Man of Steel but also Ben Affleck as Batman and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in Batman V Superman. They of course, also shut everyone up afterwards. Well... almost everyone.
Personally, I would've loved to see an actual Ben Affleck batman movie. His batman voice was better than Christian Bale imo
I like GHOST IN THE SHELL and I love THE LONE RANGER and PRINCE OF PERSIA despite the controversial casting.
Depp never plays two of the same role? Depp ALWAYS plays the same role, over and over, or do you mean gives different performances? He gives the same performance no matter what he does.
playing sparrow counts as one not 4
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The role of a man who beats his wife. Yeah. In Uk, not american trump-based version
@@huggyjose 🤔
10:26 Actually, its been confirmed that TJ maybe wont be in Deadpool 3 as he said that he had a "weird" experience working with Ryan Reynolds on the first two films.
Chris Pratt as Mario was actually really good
Where's Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming The Woke Little Mermaid?
Ikr
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Snowflake
ledger was a surprise casting but he absolutely knocked it out the park
Scarlett Johansson as Kusanagi from Ghost in the shell. A lot of people were angry they didn't cast an Asian Woman to play her.
As an American, Scarlett Johansson only has the body and figure of Makoto Kisaragi, nothing else. Kisaragi was always Japanese to me because of her mannerisms, movements, and of course her name.
Japan on the other hand didn't seem to mind the casting choice because they have beauty standards for white people. It's funny because the live-action BLEACH was a success overseas, but it flopped in Japan.
@@KenMasters.
MOTOKO KUSANAGI never acted like a Japanese woman, whether it is in the manga or in the movies and series. Just the fact that you don't even know her name shows how you know shit about GitS so go back watching One Piece and leave GitS to the people who actually know and appreciate it...
@@shizukagozen777
Geez, you must've also been a fan of Dragonball: Evolution.
@@KenMasters.
LOL No.
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You might as well tell me Justin Chatwin should also be appreciated as Son Goku, and that the media is wrong.
Same with the characters from The Last Airbender and Fist of the North Star
As a Italian I don’t mind Chris Pratt playing Mario and sence my great grandpas name was Mario my opinion means more
"Say 'white washing' again, I fucking dare you"
The sad part to all the involved in The Conqueror eventually developed deseases by radiation!!! Including John Wayne himself and Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz who killed himself because the pain of the cancer!!!
It's almost like people don't know what acting is. Next they're going to say the next Superman actor better actually be from Krypton or the next Transformers movie better actually have Cybertronians from Cybertron.
RDJ was born to play ironman
Hey, Chris Pratt is great for casting Mario. I'm not gonna let you guys diss the Mario Movie, y'know.
Again, backlash from "modern" audiences. What is modern today, wasn't modern back then. People aren't taking into account the difference in ideologies and practices of the past compared to today. To call something terrible because of something "modern" movie watchers become offended over, is just plain ignorance. And to label it "racist" or insensitive and unwatchable is borderline censorship. It's like saying you can't call the kettle black in fear of offending some group who hates the color black.
Yet, the arguments you have stated can be overused. Some things are patently racist. Just because people now say something was racist whereas people decades ago did not does not mean it is a problem with modern standards vs. former ones.
Seems these days people forget what Acting actually means and what an actor is. They make a living pretending to be who they are not. From now on only Veterans can be Soldiers in War films or I'm going to be offended.
The casting in the Super Mario Bros. movie turned out to a big success making it the biggest animated movie ever made.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that was disappointed when I heard Mario’s voice lol
I didn't see people complaining that Sonic didn't have his voice actor from the recent games in his movies, but when it came to Mario, people instantly despised it, Charles Martinet isn't as young as he was over 2 decades ago, for games at most he records each unique line once or twice to get it perfect which given the games, isn't that many, plus Mario is from Brooklyn, not straight from Italy, he might be Italian by blood, but he still came from his home in Brooklyn which he's lived in for who knows how long
I never knew that Mario was ACTUALLY from our world. 😅🤣🤣🤣
Yep exactly lmao.
Sonic sounds similar to the games. Chris Pratt does not sound remotely similar.
No mention of Little Mermaid Live action and the horrible casting of Dukes of Hazard.
Yah where’s Ariel??
Heath Ledger was scary good as the Joker.
Johnny Depp As Tonto The Lone Ranger and Jennifer Lawrence As Katniss Everdeen The Hunger Games and Chris Pratt As Mario The Super Mario Bros Movie and Female Leads Ghostbusters and Robert Downey Jr. As Tony Stark Iron Man and T.J. Miller As Weasel Deadpool 2 and Tom Cruise As Lestat De Lioncourt Interview with the Vampire and Michael Keaton As Bruce Wayne Batman and Jake Gyllenhaal As Prince Dastan Of Persia Prince of Persia The Sands of Time and Daniel Craig As James Bond Casino Royale and Heath Ledger As The Joker The Dark Knight has been worked out the best even for me on TV or on Hulu or on Netflix or on Apple TV or on the DVDs
Major in Ghost in the Shell is a Russian model...a white Russian model...that's canon in the source material. Making her Japanese would of changed the source material.
There is no "controversy" behind Pratt as Mario, really, just a bunch of egotists on social media looking for a reason to dunk on him, and virtue signalling narcissist celebrities piling on, had they picked a more Twitter-friendly celebrity like Paul Rudd or Chris Evans, this controversy would be non-existent
there is controversy to me his voice dose not really work well with the character
@@jimbo9208 If you're used to Martinette's voice, surely not.
I like how u guys assembled both crap roles and roles that could’ve gone bad but were what made the movie enjoyable
I think scarlett as ghost in the shell was fine
I still have mixed feelings over Pratt's casting as Mario. But until we see another trailer with more of Pratt as Mr. Nintendo who knows maybe it'll convince me. If not who knows.
Yeah I kinda have mixed feelings about Christ Pratt voicing Mario too. So I'll wait for any new trailers with Pratt to prove me if he's good for the role or not.
I like Chris Pratt's role as mario for the upcoming mario movie.
Half of these are “ cultural appropriation” which is absolutely sad and ridiculous. You should be able to play anyone of any culture or race as long as you go a good job of it. We are all ONE RACE we are humans God didn’t create us to separate ourselves by color or region. It’s like a chocolate lab and a yellow lab they are the exact same breed but we’re just born with different colorations.
You forgot Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luther. Watching him as Lex Luther was truly painful.
Wonder if either Bryan Cranston or Robert Downey Jr. could fit well onto the role of Lex Luthor??
I still can't fathom why chris pratt was chosen over the actual voice of Mario Charles Martinet especially when its not even live action
It’s called acting plus if you know the story of the real person Eddie Redmayne is like 30 years younger than the person
yes but why cant they do a better job at casting
Other than Hemsworth as Thor and Johansen as Black widow, Chris as Captain America, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man Is the best Marvel character to me!!!
Another Breakfast at Tiffanys fact is that Truman Capote, who wrote the book & screenplay, wanted Marilyn Monroe as Holly Golightly, but she turned it down on the advice of Lee Strasburg. Capote was furious, claiming he'd been betrayed in every way.
Jennifer Lawrence was a great Katniss Everdeen. Man i loved that series. Last books ive ever read.
Justin Timberlake as Boo Boo (Yogi Bear 2010 film) has left the chat!
The Black Little Mermaid ? The Black Anne Boleyn ? The Black cast from Ring of Power and House of the Dragon ? No ? I see, Watch Mojo wants to avoid the scandals. 🤣🤣🤣
How are black actors in fictional roles, scandalous?
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I won't even bother to answer your question because I already know that all you're looking for is some drama so I won't give you that. Anyway. All I wanted to point at is the fact that Watch Mojo avoids all the very controversial examples, not only with Black people but everyone like they didn't talk about the cast of Avatar The Last Air Bender, The Great Wall, Gods of Egypt, Prince of Persia, etc. I find it quite funny to be honest.
Ps: FYI: Anne Boleyn is not a fictional character. 🙃
There's more too;
Nick Fury played by Samuel L Jackson.
Idris Elba as Heimdal,
Aquaman - played by Jason Mamoa,
Felix Leiter - played by Bernie Casey,
Judy Dench as "M",
Kingpin in Daredevil being played by Michael Clarke Duncan,
Catwoman in Batman,
Bane in Batman being played by Tom Hardy,
Some of these ended up working, but they were still controversial at the time when compared to their source material.
Just say you're racist and go.
Gosh... In GitS, the major's cyborg body is the one of a freaking WESTERN woman. Only her brain, her only remaining human organ, is Japanese. So her being played by a Western woman makes sense, whether people like it or not. 🤦♀️ Also, Japanese people always make anime adaptations with Westerners played by Japanese actors and no one says shit about it so stop the hypocrisy. 🙄😒
Chris Pratt gave Mario a NY Brooklyn accent, deal with it, bitches.
Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince was a disappointment? No he wasn't. Have you guys played the games? Other than the reboot that is. Jake easily had the look of the The Prince from the original trilogy (The Sands of Time, Warrior Within and The Two Thrones). Controversial? I guess... Unworthy? No.
It's based of a video game and it's one of the best ones out there, along with Assassin's Creed and Sonic.
Same thing with Scarlet as the Major... I mean, the creator didn't have a problem with it, so why do people have to take it so personal?
I mean, nobody batted an eye when Martin Csokas (terrific actor btw) played Yorgi (A former Soviet Union soldier) in Triple X... I mean the guy is Australian. People really need to get a life and stop trying to be woke all the time.
If controversial casting is the topic, then why not put Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker? Reddick is an amazing actor in everything he does, but Albert Wesker is suppose to be white with slick blond hair, similar to the "perfect esthetic human" of the Germans.
One thing that annoys me is when people get mad when people from fictional places don't match real world views. Like with Avatar - I get that it's very heavily influenced by real life Asian places/cultures, but they're in a whole separate world. They can't be Asian as we know it because that's not a thing there. It may have a slew of other issues, but I think it's dumb to make that one of them.
I'm ready for the hate now.
I don't necessarily agree with you because you have the source cartoons to go by. However, I will say that, regardless of his nationality, if you put a picture of Noah Ringer up against a picture of the cartoon Aang, there is a definite likeness. Now, if he was an actual actor ... LOL
I'm starting to understand the Family Guy impersonation of John Wayne .. hilarious.
I always felt that Aloha was a greatly misunderstood film: It is often called a romantic comedy, but I think it would be more appropriate to call it a low-key comedy where instead of going for more gut busting laughs, they were trying to go for more nuanced comedy. Instead of obvious over the top jokes, all the actors played their characters straight, quirks and all, in a similar vain as the original Ghost Busters. Like John Krasinski's character that barely spoke, especially highlighted by the scene where him and Bradley Cooper had an entire conversation without speaking a word. Or Emma Stone's character who was obviously white, but clung onto her small amount of "ethnic heritage" like a badge of honor and let it shape who she was as a person, you know... like Elizabeth Warren, who claimed for years she was Native American, got Native American Scholarships, and served on Native American Boards, despite having very little Native American DNA. I thought for sure that was what they were going for with Emma Stone's character, after all, there is a scene in the movie where Bradley Cooper and Racheal McAdams make fun of the fact that she keeps bringing up that she is Native Hawaiian. Why would the characters in the movie make fun of her for this besides for the fact that she is obviously white and no one believes her when she says otherwise?
I'm not saying the movie was good. It was not good. But I don't think as many people would have hated it so bad if they would have saw it in a different light.
Aloha was definitely a case of misleading marketing.
And if Emma Stone had dyed her hair brown and maybe had briwn or green eyes, her casting wouldn't have been so criticized
I finally decided to watch Breakfast at Tiffanys over thirty years later to see what all the fuss was about and practically the first face in the screen was MIckey Rooney as the Asian landlord. It was funny because I had never heard anything about that. I watched as the credits rolled and with no idea what the plot and therefore, Mr. Yumioshi, was supposed to be, when I saw "Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yumioshi" I sensed there was going to be some strange looking the other way with this film.
Being well aware of Rooney's enthusiasm during WWII and American patriotism, there was no surprise in how he portrayed this fellow.
I've never finished watching that movie.
I guess the biggest outrage really must be that at that same moment, Keye Luke, Victor Sen Yung or Sammee Tong would have been much more believable in the role without all that closed eyes, growling and protruding teeth business.
Don't you love how someone simply saying that someone did something bad is enough to ruin their careers and possibly their lives? Ah the power of the internet.
I think Mojo has their facts wrong this time, TJ Miller has been very vocal about his refusal to work with Ryan Reynolds now, and he will not be in Deadpool 3.
Mario fans don’t even realize that Martine wasn’t Mario’s first voice actor but rather Peter Cullen yes I’m not kidding the voice of Optimus Prime was the voice of Mario BEFORE Optimus Prime and then there’s Captain Lou from The Super Mario Brothers Super Show and finally Bob Hoskins in the infamous 1993 live action movie and Mario was a Brooklyn plumber meaning the Mario in the games is an Italian stereotype
Are you referring to Saturday Supercade?
So no mention of black washing little mermaid huh?? Or hawkgirl? Or starfire? Or mary jane? Heimdall? the flash? Domino? Roland? Django? MJ from spiderman? Electro? Human torch? Nick fury? Annie? Fairy godmother? Perry white? I can keep on going....
A mention I would put in is Chris Evans aka Captain America as Buzz Lightyear for the Lightyear movie. Many Lightyear fans were upset Chris Evans voiced the famous Space Ranger instead of the orginal actor Tim Allen. Nevertheless, I enjoyed Lightyear and I believe Chris Evans did an amazing job voicing our favorite Space Ranger.
In the other movies Buzz is a toy, meanwhile the 2022 movie is about the real person behind the toy so to me it kind of makes sense that they don't have the same voice. 🤷♀️
@@shizukagozen777 Yes. I agree.
The plot twist ruined the movie, though.
ANTHONY MACKIE AS TUPAC IN NOTORIOUS