British actor Ed Skrein has pulled out of a role in the upcoming Hellboy reboot after a backlash because he was cast as a character of Asian heritage.
The Deadpool star, 34, said he did not know the race of Major Ben Daimio when he accepted the part in the comic book adaptation.
He said he was stepping down “so the role can be cast appropriately”.
Oh, for crying out loud!
“It is clear that representing this character in a culturally accurate way holds significance for people, and that to neglect this responsibility would continue a worrying tendency to obscure ethnic minority stories and voices in the arts,” he said.
It’s a film about a comic book character. It’s all made up. Jeebus!
Who?
Indeed.
Looked him up – he also has a career as a rapper. (Isn’t that “cultural appropriation”?)
He’s just realised the flak he’s going to get from his right-on fan base and made a financial judgement.
Of course he is presenting it as a moral decision.
Ah, a crapper. No wonder I’d never heard of him. He’s a fuckwit as well as a pompous twat.
Ah, I see. So when we see Morgan Freeman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (and from memory all Robin Hood stories are populated by melanin impoverished humans) why did he not state that “It is clear that representing this character in a culturally accurate way holds significance for people”
Or, am I missing something?
I was thinking of the more recent adaptation of Sherlock Holmes where Watson was an Asian woman, or the calls for James Bond to be black or female – or both, one presumes…
Playing fast and loose with good old James Bond? That’s Cultural appropriation that is!
Ah, but it’s only cultural appropriation if whitey does it.
And he just made it harder for everyone else. What a pussy!
It’s the crazy years and the year of the jackpot is nigh.
Almost guaranteed now that the pompous Skrein will never be called for a casting at a major studio again. Nobody wants an unknown actor embarassing them as publicly as this.