If the best advice for Hollywood when it comes to whitewashing characters in 2017 is just “don’t,” Ed Skrein is the first sign the message is getting through. Actor Ed Skrein made headlines this week for backing out of a role in the Hellboy reboot after his casting was criticized. Or do these questionable casting decisions show that the creators didn’t fully grasp the source material’s appeal? “Death Note is what happens when filmmakers are colour-blind but not colour-conscious,” wrote The Hollywood Reporter’s Rebecca Sun, about the adaptation. Skrein has set an interesting precedent and one that arguably, as an actor, he shouldn’t have felt forced to make.

Source: thestar September 03, 2017 11:03 UTC