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Exterminieren · Aug 28, 2017

A primer- it was recently announced that Ed Skrein had been cast in the new Hellboy movie as Major Ben Daimio, a character with mixed Asian heritage. This casting prompted complaints about the erasure of Asian actors in Hollywood and the whitewashing of established characters.

In response, Skrein has pulled out to allow the role to be cast properly.

A singularly classy and respectful move to make. I hope this kickstarts a trend of inappropriately-cast actors refusing to take roles that would allow representation for minority actors.

Volimar · Aug 28, 2017

Good for you Francis.

super-famicom · Aug 28, 2017

Good for him. I hope other actors can be in favor of equal representation.

NotTheGuyYouKill · Aug 28, 2017

Props to him

Inferno313 · Aug 28, 2017

Good on 'im. This puts significant pressure on the studio to actually cast an Asian person now. Kinda can't go cast another white dude after that statement.

who wants to bet that they still will?

Platy · Aug 28, 2017

Awesome for him.

Can't wait for the producers to announce another white dude not understanding anything

Messi · Aug 28, 2017

Watch them cast another white guy.

-Plasma Reus- · Aug 28, 2017

If you ever watch one of his interviews, you'll know the man has character.

Number_6 · Aug 28, 2017

Real classy move there.

VenomousCoffee · Aug 28, 2017

Good on him.

Nappuccino · Aug 28, 2017

Nice.

Shame they couldn't find another role for him in the film--it's gotta be hard to leave a big production like Hellboy.

HeartlessNobody213 · Aug 28, 2017

Good for him. He will have plenty of other opportunities.

Chopper · Aug 28, 2017

Very cool. Statement is classy as hell.

wenis · Aug 28, 2017

So he made making this movie more difficult and made the studio look bad, black balled!

- evil studio exec champing on a cigar

Cerium · Aug 28, 2017

That's very classy of him.

Random Human · Aug 28, 2017

wenis said:
- evil studio exec champing on a cigar

Honestly, he did them a PR favour long-term.

Waylon Drums · Aug 28, 2017

At least bad Daario is a good real dude.

Rockandrollclown · Aug 28, 2017

Good for him. Holy shit if they recast a white dude.

SuperStiltzkin · Aug 28, 2017

Mad respect. Glad to see this stuff happening.

Shin K Dash · Aug 28, 2017

I have so much respect for him for this...

SliceSabre · Aug 28, 2017

Messi said:
Watch them cast another white guy.

My thoughts exactly.

Christian · Aug 28, 2017

Wow. Good for him. People aren't exactly lining up to put this guy in their movies, so this probably wasn't an easy thing for him to do, from a "make a living" perspective. But he'll definitely earn a lot of respect.

brawly · Aug 28, 2017

Great guy.

Zoe · Aug 28, 2017

Wow. About time someone took action.

ultracal31 · Aug 28, 2017

Inferno313 said:
Good on 'im. This puts significant pressure on the studio to actually cast an Asian person now. Kinda can't go cast another white dude after that statement.

who wants to bet that they still will?

Sigh sadly I see that

Gotta double down on the "best actor who auditioned"

moltonasty · Aug 28, 2017

Messi said:
Watch them cast another white guy.

This reminds me of when you I tried to get a raise at my last job and they straight up said no and then hired someone for less money than what they were paying me.

Sweeney Tom · Aug 28, 2017

Tremendous amount of respect for him for doing this

strafer · Aug 28, 2017

is this the first time someone stepped down like this?

wenis · Aug 28, 2017

Random Human said:
Honestly, he did them a PR favour long-term.

As long as they don't fuck it up but my faith in Hollywood and race relations is super low. I'm still waiting for a Native American / Mexican super hero.

Damn Silly · Aug 28, 2017

Legit classy move. Props to him.

Junior Asparagus · Aug 28, 2017

Messi said:
Watch them cast another white guy.

It'll be Michiel Huisman.

fauxtrot · Aug 28, 2017

I have never really enjoyed him in a movie but this was pretty fucking cool of him.

Sad that the studio made such a dumb decision in the first place... watch them replace him with Jai Courtney or something.

Zoe · Aug 28, 2017

strafer said:
is this the first time someone stepped down like this?

At least publically

kmax · Aug 28, 2017

It starts small. It always does.

Thank you for doing your part in the name of equality.

shaneo632 · Aug 28, 2017

Dude is an atrocious actor but seems like he might be a good person. Bravo.

Latvian Hitman · Aug 28, 2017

Junior Asparagus said:
It'll be Michiel Huisman.

Savage.

I miss OG Daario...

pablito · Aug 28, 2017

Respect

Elegant Weapon · Aug 28, 2017

wenis said:
As long as they don't fuck it up but my faith in Hollywood and race relations is super low. I'm still waiting for a Native American / Mexican super hero.

You probably want something less campy but Machete is pretty badass

fallengorn · Aug 28, 2017

Good on him.

ShadowSwordmaster · Aug 28, 2017

They will cast another white guy for the role.

Fudgepuppy · Aug 28, 2017

What are the chances he'll be shunned by Hollywood now? Especially as he basically implied that everyone behind this movie are culturally insensitive morons for casting him.

cartographer · Aug 28, 2017

I'll clown his bad acting less now. Good for him.

(What sort of background work are you doing if you can't find out your character is of partial Asian descent from a Google search?)

WoolyNinja · Aug 28, 2017

Great move by him! I wonder if there's another role he could play in the movie as he was great in Deadpool and I feel like being a stand-up decent person should be rewarded in Hollywood.

Jarmel · Aug 28, 2017

Hopefully he doesn't face career blacklisting from doing this.

Youngfossil · Aug 28, 2017

cartographer said:
I'll clown his bad acting less now. Good for him.

(What sort of background work are you doing if you can't find out your character is of partial Asian descent from a Google search?)

None, his agent did more of the leg work to get him casted

Trouble · Aug 28, 2017

I guess he's not a 200-pound sack of assholes after all.

Jarmel said:
Hopefully he doesn't face career blacklisting from doing this.

It's early enough to not cause any impact to the filming schedule, so I doubt he'll catch any flak.

Jotaka · Aug 28, 2017

And ScarJoe fuck you

FinaruDensetsu · Aug 28, 2017

ShadowSwordmaster said:
They will cast another white guy for the role.

They'll cast a white guy who through one of those dna heritage websites can claim he's like 1/64th Asian.

Much respect to Ed Skrein though for doing this. It must have been really tough for him to give up a role in a big production.

wenis · Aug 28, 2017

Elegant Weapon said:
You probably want something less campy but Machete is pretty badass

im super happy Danny Trejo got a starring role in something and loved that movie quite a bit, but yea. Man it'd be cool if we could get some super heroes i could've identified with when i was a kid. There were scant few.

MHWilliams · Aug 28, 2017

Good guy Ed Skrein steps up. I legitimately applaud you, sir.

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