profeminist:Facebook post sourceAsian American media group condemns Scarlett Johansson in ‘Gho
profeminist:Facebook post sourceAsian American media group condemns Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’ controversy“I think this character is living a very unique experience, in that she is a human brain in an entirely machinate body,” Johansson said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” earlier this week. “She’s essentially identity-less. … I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously. She added, “Hopefully, any question that comes up of my casting will … be answered by audiences when they see the film.”But MANAA leaders who have seen the film say they are angered, and said in a statement that the actress “was lying” in defending her portrayal.“Though defenders of the casting claimed that both the original 1989 manga and 1995 animated Japanese film were vague about Major Motoko Kusanagi’s original ethnic identity before her brain was placed into the body of a cyborg, this film verifies she was Japanese; her real name, in fact, was Motoko Kusanagi (her cyborg identity, implanted with false memories, was Major Mira Killian),” the statement read.MANAA also denounced the casting of Michael Pitt in the role of Kuze in the film, which MANAA said “is revealed to have originally been named Hideo, meaning he too was Japanese.”“Apparently, in Hollywood, Japanese people can’t play Japanese people anymore,” MANAA President Robert Chan said in a news release. “There’s no reason why either Motoku or Hideo could not have been portrayed by Japanese or Asian actors instead of Scarlett Johansson and Michael Pitt. We don’t even get to see what they looked like in their original human identities — a further whitewash.”Read the full piece hereFor the Iron Fist commenters - Source -- source link
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