Poll of the Day > Liberal Jamie Chung is OUTRAGED that a White Guy is the LEAD in an ASIAN Film!!!

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Crazy Rich Asians, an exclusively ALL ASIAN cast for a big screen adaptation directed by Jon M Chu will soon hit theatres as it's based off of a popular book by Kevin Kwan as he hopes the movie plays well in America..The movie is about a son of a Singaporean near royalty and is the boyfriend of a protagonist named Rachel

But the movie isn't getting all the praise..especially from asian actors who were outraged that they cast a relative newcomer who is HALF White and HALF Asian as people believed the actor should have been FULL ASIAN!!

The man who won the lead role is newcomer Henry Golding who is half british and half sinaporean/malaysian..

This is a rare movie when the leading role is of Asian Descent as director Jon Chu said he needed to find an asian actor with the right charisma and charm to lead the role and believed that was Henry...

Asians around the world however are not very happy as one actress, Jamie Chung who has been adamantly opposed to the casating choice as she called the mixed-race casting "BULLS***" before walking back on it and state "it goes both ways. It's just frustrating to lose a job or not have a at it because of your race. If the role is casting for asian actor, you want to hire an asian actor, not someone who is white. It makes no sense"

Jamie has been a vocal supporter of progressivism and has slammed some casting choices, such as Ed Skrein in Hellboy who thankfully dropped out which lead Daniel Dae Kim to take over the role.

But Henry is DEFENDING the casting and said it was hurtful who said "For me, it was almost like being kind of stabbed in the back. I was like, aren't we all meant to be in this boat together? Aren't we meant to strive together for something bigger than these boundaries that we're putting on ourselves instead of bullying each other?. People were like, this guy's half asian, he's half white, he's not full asian, and it comes to like, how Asian do you have to be considered Asian? I've lived 16-17 years of my life in Asia and that's most of my life i was born in Asia"

Crazy Rich Asians starring Henry and Fresh Off The Boat's Constance Wu comes out next year in August.

Do you think Jamie is right? let's see what people think.

Jamie -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/22/07/4292A2FA00000578-0-image-m-109_1500706532073.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/01/19/08/3C426C0000000578-0-image-m-2_1484813448713.jpg

http://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/6555179/1100full-jamie-chung.jpg

Henry - Controversial Actor

http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/3882200/667full-henry-golding.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/ya3plva3

Crazy Rich Asians -

https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/20171021_ew_crazy_rich_asians_s04_101.jpg?w=669
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Full Throttle posted...

But the movie isn't getting all the praise..especially from asian actors who were outraged that they cast a relative newcomer who is HALF White and HALF Asian as people believed the actor should have been FULL ASIAN!!

Half-Asian is Asian or, at the very least, as Asian as it is white. And the outcry over racial purity is disgusting.

Full Throttle posted...

Jamie has been a vocal supporter of progressivism and has slammed some casting choices, such as Ed Skrein in Hellboy who thankfully dropped out which lead Daniel Dae Kim to take over the role.

"Thankfully dropped out"? More racial purity bullshit. A certain 1940s dictator would be proud.
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but you know, this is totally not racist because they're just hating the white part of him
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I fully came into this thread expecting to agree with her... then I realized this "white guy" is Asian. This happens more often than it should, someone being denounced as not being a "real" person of color because they're half white =/
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Granted, I *might* be able to at least partly understand this if Henry didn't also look Asian. It's like saying that Rock can't play a Somoan because his dad was black. It's just stupid.
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I'd say he looks Asian enough to pass it off. I'd imagine some fellow actors/actress are probably more upset that an in-experience actor was given the role.

Actors/actresses being actors/actresses, on one hand I'd say so long as they can act and look the role it shouldn't matter what their ethnicity is. On the other hand, depending on said role, it would look really out of place if an actor/actress's appearance is way off from the source material/character (i.e. non-Asian woman playing as Mulan) One can only suspend belief so far even with fictional content.
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At least it's actually an Asian racist this time.

If you've got the forward thinking tint, you can just realize that she basically refused to associate with a mixed Asian.

She's wrong but hot.
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She's not getting that it's okay to be white.

Plus, she looks ugly to me. Normally, I like Asian girls, but her eyes freak me out. Her nature, even more so.

I thought she was pretty cute back in 2004 when she was on The Real World

Yellow posted...

At least it's actually an Asian racist this time.

If you've got the forward thinking tint, you can just realize that she basically refused to associate with a mixed Asian.

This completely.
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