Director Of “Aloha” Apologizes For Whitewashing Asian Role With Emma Stone

[ReallJc]

Is Hollywood starting to recognize how egregious its whitewashing casting choices are? Cameron Crowe’s return to directing, “Aloha,” was not only a box office disappointment over its opening weekend, but enfuriated tons of fans who didn’t understand why a movie set in Hawaii featured virtually NO Pacific Islanders, but the only partially Asian character in the film was cast as a fully-white woman. Via CNN:

Writer-director Cameron Crowe is having a tough week.

His critically savaged movie, “Aloha,” performed poorly in its first weekend in theaters, collecting just $10.5 million despite a shiny pedigree and a star-studded cast. And now he’s apologizing for what critics are calling the culturally insensitive casting of actress Emma Stone as a part-Asian character.

“Thank you so much for all the impassioned comments regarding the casting of the wonderful Emma Stone in the part of Allison Ng,” Crowe wrote in a post on his personal blog. “I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.”

The Allison Ng character in the film is a young Air Force pilot in Hawaii with a father who is half Chinese. Ng is proud to be one-quarter Hawaiian, a fact she repeats to almost everyone she encounters. But Stone, who grew up in Arizona, apparently has no Chinese or Pacific Islander ancestry. Native Hawaiians, Asian activists and bloggers have criticized the movie — set entirely in Hawaii — for its overwhelmingly white cast, with many singling out Stone’s casting as being especially egregious.

“As far back as 2007, Captain Allison Ng was written to be a super-proud ¼ Hawaiian who was frustrated that, by all outward appearances, she looked nothing like one. A half-Chinese father was meant to show the surprising mix of cultures often prevalent in Hawaii,” he wrote.

“Extremely proud of her unlikely heritage, she feels personally compelled to over-explain every chance she gets. The character was based on a real-life, red-headed local who did just that.”

They keep justifying this white washing by saying no one will watch movies with a black/asian/minority lead actor, yet when they whitewash them, the movies tank anyway.

And let's be real here, if you're making a movie that's set in Hawaii and called Aloha, you could at least think to have a more diverse casting. I mean the population is like 50% Asian there, but obviously that's not represented in the film. White Hollywood strikes again.

 

[Slystallion]

Emma stone was supposed to be a part Asian women get the fukk out lmao

 

[Numero Deux]

Notice how they're suddenly "apologetic" about the situation after the movie proves to be a box office disappointment.

Emma Stone as an Eurasian woman?


Hollywood whitewashed Prince of Persia. It flopped.

Hollywood whitewashed Dragon Ball Evolution. It flopped.

Hollywood whitewashed The Last Airbender. It flopped.

Hollywood whitewashed Cloud Atlas. It flopped.

Hollywood whitewashed Exdous: Gods of Egypt . It flopped.

The 2014 tv show Hieroglyph had a whitewashed cast. It didn't even get to premiere before being cancelled.

Hollywood whitewashed Aloha. It flopped.


Get the message: white people are not guaranteed money makers.

Stop pretending that white washing ethnic characters is the only way to attract audiences to the films they are in. Not everyone needs to a prominent white character onscreen in order to feel "safe" watching something.

 

[ORDER_66]

Emma Stone as Alison NG.... Half Chinese/ Samoan/ European.... bytch looks pure white, talking about she Hawaiian...

White Hollywood needs to stop the bullshyt...

 

[BXKingPin82]

:mooneyha:

 

[The Watcher]

Emma Stone thought she was getting a fat payday and a role in a heavy-hitter movie, now she gets to spend the next year answering questions about the completely appropriate backlash to her shytty decision-making skills .

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

When are the rest of them gonna apologize for Noah, Exodus and all the other white washed movies though.

 

[ORDER_66]

When are the rest of them gonna apologize for Noah, Exodus and all the other white washed movies though.

I dont know.... I wish i knew... I dont understand how they sit on these board meetings and think the movie set in these places with these casts is the right idea given the moviegoers attitudes nowadays... I mean did the hollywood brass expect NO group of people to NOT be mad about Aloha considering There's Virtually NO hawaiians casted anywhere in the movie???

 

[Mr Clean]

Her name is Allison Ng

The last Ng on earth

 

[Monoblock]

Her name is Allison Ng

The last Ng on earth

Which reminds me...any time is a good time for Paul Mooney

 

[ORDER_66]

Her name is Allison Ng

The last Ng on earth

Neogaf already had exstensive coverage about that very phrase....

 

[Mr Clean]

Neogaf already had exstensive coverage about that very phrase....

Nothing original

 

[Rapmastermind]

Furious 7 - 1.5 BILLION with only 1 White Lead as the main cast. This myth that audiences don't want to see people of color has been the biggest lie hollywood continues to tell. How you going to do a movie about Hawaii and not cast a Hawaiian as a lead? I like Cameron Crowe but just like Ridley Scott they both made terrible mistakes. We are in a different world and people aren't going to have this whitewashing stuff not more. It's time to give more people of color staring roles in bigger movies and more diverse subject matter. At least he apologized unlike Ridley who found excuses. Again "Furious 7" which was basically a Black and Latino/Spanish Cast out grossed every movie this year.

 

[wire28]

its ok we forgive you

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Everybody wanna be a Ng but nobody wanna be a Ng