Shortly after, Reese Witherspoon's casting as Tinker Bell was announced.
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I've always been hopeful about Shazad Latif's casting as Tyler.
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It was casting as if they were leads, because they are.
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Kristen Stewart has endorsed Robert Pattinson's casting as the next Batman.
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Ruby Rose has quit Twitter after backlash to her casting as Batwoman.
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The potential pitfalls of socially conscious criticism extend to casting as well.
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"Central casting!" as Mr Trump likes to say of his camera-ready deputy.
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Dakota's Fanning's casting as a white Muslim woman has sparked some controversy online.
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A representative for Kravitz confirmed her casting as Catwoman, but declined to comment further.
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Sloan, a plainspoken and affable executive, was never great casting as a change agent.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, Rose's casting as The CW's Batwoman was met with backlash online.
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Jeffrey Tambor speaks out for more Trans casting as he accepts award for 'Transparent' #Emmys pic.twitter.
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Neither show intended that casting as a statement, but the effect was to alienate many people.
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So even though her SNL appearance was a surprise, her casting as Spicer is spot-on.
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"I slept with some nerd," she told Vanity Fair of her casting as Leia in Star Wars.
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When Johnny Depp's casting as Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts franchise was announced, it was Nov.
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Earlier in the week, actor Matt Damon told Reuters that he would back Elba's casting as Bond.
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Hauer-King's casting as Prince Eric comes after news that Harry Styles was up for the role.
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One thing that hasn't changed: Fox's casting as Howard's mistress and employee, written and named for her.
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Try Again: Tilda Swinton defended her casting as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange amidst backlash over whitewashing.
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Nina star Mike Epps is responding to criticism over his costar, Zo Saldana's, casting as singer Nina Simone.
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Her casting as Gill was met with intense backlash after it was announced just over a week ago.
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The mezzo-soprano role of Goldspur, the Vixen's romantic interest, is played, true to casting, as a woman.
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But they cast Diane Keaton instead which was about as silly a piece of casting as you could get.
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Definitely misread the Ariel casting as "Halle Berry" and was completely befuddled for a good, few, dozen, FIFTYLEVEN, minutes.
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On Twitter, users shared their excitement for Hauer-King's casting, as well as their appreciation for his good looks.
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SAN DIEGO — Jodie Whittaker's casting as the first female Doctor may have been a bold leap forward for Doctor Who.
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Saldana's casting as the legendary African-American singer was originally slammed, because she is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent.
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Bernie vows to be Wall Street's 'worst nightmare' For his part, Sanders has embraced his casting as Wall Street's boogeyman.
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The actress has dropped out of the upcoming project Rub & Tug, following heavy criticism for her casting as a trans man.
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We strongly encourage the actual hiring and casting, as opposed to simply the interviewing or auditioning – but it's not a quota.
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Reid's role in Sharknado likely began as stunt casting — as per THR, she was considered a "big get" for the project.
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They must come from Central Casting as the braggadocio losers who talk about their love lives' and their success with women.
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If they hacked one person's computer, they hit everyone in the victim's address books, casting as wide a net as possible.
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" More recently, there has been debate over Scarlett Johansson's casting as a Japanese character in the forthcoming film "Ghost in the Shell.
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That means Trump has, at least for now, neutralized what the press is casting as a grave threat to his political survival.
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Mr. Bradsell, a quirky character with a clipped, querulous way of speaking, was not straight out of central casting as a bartender.
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Many felt Jamil's casting as judge, versus someone actually familiar with the culture, was a slap in the face to those roots.
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Victoria: Even though the release date was announced this week, people have been outraged about Zoe Saldana's casting as Nina Simone for years.
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Recently, Scarlett Johansson stepped down from the film Rug & Tug after news of her casting as a trans man triggered a backlash online.
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Joseph Fiennes is responding to criticism over his casting as Michael Jackson in an upcoming film, and welcoming a conversation on its implications.
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But the absence of outreach is still notable, especially in a campaign that the Democrats are casting as a kind of national emergency.
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On social media, newspaper editorials and videos, the transgender community had slammed her casting as highlighting the limited opportunities given to transgender actors.
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The Supreme speculation is under way, and the media powers that be are focusing on a woman who they are already casting as controversial.
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Finally, today, it ends with a denouement: Johansson released an exclusive statement to Out magazine saying she'd dropped out of her casting as Gill.
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The film drew controversy for her casting as Foster was just 12 years old when she was cast, but it eventually received rave reviews.
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" [Agence France-Presse] • Ed Skrein backed out of the movie "Hellboy," saying that criticism of his casting as a partially Asian character was "understandable.
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Thompson started by asking contestants about a recent real-life example: Will Smith's casting as Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams.
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Mark Ruffalo has taken to social media to respond to backlash surrounding Matt Bomer's casting as a transgender sex worker in his upcoming film Anything.
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The actress congratulated 19-year-old R&B singer Halle Bailey on her casting as Ariel in Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
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His casting as Ford for Run This Town was originally met with some skepticism online, given the red-haired English actor looks nothing like Ford.
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The reception for that role almost certainly led to her casting as Cipher — not as complex or polished a character but with key similarities nonetheless.
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Pattinson recently told Variety he was "f---ing furious" when the news of his casting as Batman leaked before he'd even auditioned for the role.
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Cravalho's casting as Moana was announced in October of 2015, in a characteristically hashtag-bedecked Instagram post from her future costar (and vocal Moana cheerleader) Johnson.
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Organizers will place a heavy focus on hybrid vehicles, both standard and plug-in hybrids, in the interest of casting as wide a net as possible.
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In 1955, Kenneth Tynan reviewed the London première of "Waiting for Godot" and proposed that Laurel and Hardy would be "ideal casting" as Lucky and Pozzo.
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This doubling added layers of meaning, and the cross-gender casting, as in "Curlew" and its Noh precedents, supplied a distancing that refined and distilled emotion.
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Ruby Rose got the chance to discuss her casting as the famed DC Comics character Batwoman during an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Wednesday.
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For me, it was Audra McDonald's casting as Carrie Pipperidge in "Carousel" more than 20 years ago that made a significant statement — and launched a mighty career.
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Last month, Scarlett Johansson dropped out of the coming biopic "Rub & Tug" after her casting as a transgender man sparked a backlash from trans actors and activists.
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David Tennant's casting as patriarch Scrooge McDuck won't ruffle any Doctor Who feathers and Saturday Night Live cast member Beck Bennett will voice Scrooge's hapless pilot, Launchpad McQuack.
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Overwhelmed and relieved by the positive reaction to her casting as Captain Marvel, Brie Larson is urging fans to continue making the internet a safe space for everyone.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson on Friday pulled out of production for the movie "Rub and Tug" after her casting as a transgender man sparked backlash from the transgender community.
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Yes, you could say the British actor was just defending the home team, but the discussion about Cynthia Erivo's casting as Tubman has some personal relevance for David.
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The British actress revealed on Watch What Happens Live that a producer on the 1997 film objected to her casting as Matt Damon's love interest because of her looks.
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Her words, in full: In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project.
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"In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project," Johansson, 33, told Out.
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Scarlett Johansson recently said that she's entitled to play any role onscreen, one year after she was lambasted for a "tone-deaf" reaction to her casting as a transgender man.
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We have scenes with like 500 extras all in period dress and I've never actually been on a film with extras casting as beautifully done as it is on this film.
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018): The Julie Andrews classic was live-action to begin with, but many are ecstatic over Emily Blunt's casting as the magically strict nanny in Disney's upcoming sequel.
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It's also worth mentioning that, even after all the dialogue around Johansson's casting as a Japanese character, the trailer spends most of its time on the white members of the cast.
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We all saw those horrific snapshots in the Savior lair and, as the various stories about Jeffrey Dean Morgan's casting as Negan have noted, his signature weapon is a baseball bat.
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But his recent roles in Netflix&aposs "The King" and "The Lighthouse," as well as his casting as Batman, indicates he&aposs gone from teen heartthrob to full-on Hollywood star.
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Where others saw the nontraditional casting as uplifting, Reed found it abhorrent: What, he asked, were black people doing portraying, in a sympathetic manner, white men who had enslaved black people?
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"In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante 'Tex' Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project," she said in a statement to Out.
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The show won four Emmy awards in 2018, including for Best Comedy Series and casting, as well as statues for both Brosnahan and Alex Bornstein, who plays Midge's broke, tough-talking manager.
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Mr. Schumer, who endorsed his former Senate colleague Hillary Clinton in Iowa more than a year before she announced her campaign, has appeared to embrace — and perhaps enjoy — his casting as a villain.
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And while some fans may be on the fence about Pattinson's casting as the iconic superhero, the actor has proved he can carry a tentpole movie in the past with the Twilight series.
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Calderoni joined the company a couple of years ago, and seemed to emerge from Silicon Valley central casting as former CFO at Red Hat and Cisco along with stints at IBM and SanDisk.
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Fuck that, says Bill Whittle, a man who seems to have been planted on conservative talk shows by central casting as a sort of long-game Joaquin Phoenix in I'm Still Here experiment.
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Notably, two years ago, the plot of the live-action Ghost in the Shell remake was altered in a way that was clearly meant to justify Scarlett Johansson's casting as a Japanese woman.
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"In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project," Johansson said in a statement to Out magazine.
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But nearly all of the protests are tied not to Tokyo but to Hollywood: its history of embarrassing yellow-face casting as well as its current dearth of roles for Asian-American actors.
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Yet if Cox's casting as a transgender woman was hailed as something of a breakthrough on stodgy old CBS, she's left spouting pretty banal courtroom dialogue for the most part, along with everyone else.
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Scarlett Johansson's casting as the film's lead caused a great deal of controversy—doubly so when rumors began to spread that the studio had considered using CGI to make its white cast look Japanese.
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The president initially viewed Mr. Tillerson as a granite-jawed cabinet secretary who fit Mr. Trump's requirement that top advisers look as if they came out of "central casting," as he has put it.
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As reported by Just Jared, fans on social media are eyeing Liv & Maddie star Dove Cameron to portray the teenage witch — and it's as genius casting as having Cole Sprouse slip on Jughead's grey beanie.
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" Recent high-profile casting decisions, including the Scarlett Johansson role in the remake of the Japanese anime film "Ghost in the Shell" and Tilda Swinton's casting as a sorcerer of Tibetan descent in Marvel's "Dr.
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At the same time, these new litmus tests have prompted worries that candidates may be setting themselves up for trouble in the 21625 general election, which Trump is already casting as a referendum on socialism.
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Mr. Bleu, whose father is of Jamaican descent, said he doesn't see his casting as a direct response to that scene (Astaire, in fact, isn't part of it in the film) but acknowledges its significance.
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Although screening like this may feel too extreme — or even invasive — to some, researchers argue that casting as wide a net as possible is the only way to make sure no one falls through the cracks.
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Six states will vote in Tuesday's primary contests, marking a crucial point for the Sanders campaign's quest to catch up to Biden in what he's been casting as a two-person race with a stark policy contrast.
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One White House official described Mr. Powell as a "safe" choice as well as the candidate who most closely fit Mr. Trump's penchant for filling top jobs with characters from "central casting," as he has often put it.
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Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling is standing by Johnny Depp's casting as Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts franchise despite fans questioning why domestic violence allegations made against Depp by his ex-wife Amber Heard didn't preclude him from the project.
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Read more: Kristen Stewart said her ex Robert Pattinson is the 'only guy that could play' BatmanIn an interview with Variety at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday, Bale endorsed Pattinson's casting, as did Matt Damon, his "Ford v Ferrari" costar.
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M. McFarland Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is currently sitting lower on the Tomatometer than Daredevil did over a decade ago—but that's through no fault of Ben Affleck, who actually proves to be a bit of genius casting as Batman.
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The Academy has not commented on the reaction to Hart's casting as host nor on his revelation that they asked for him to apologize, though a source familiar with the situation confirmed to PEOPLE that the Academy did ask Hart to apologize.
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An even earlier version of the film would have been written and directed by Joe Carnahan (The Grey), but Carnahan apparently left the project in part because of Willis' casting, as detailed in a vitriolic letter to MGM film group president Jonathan Glickman.
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To be fair, Murphy and co-creator Brad Falchuk have exhibited a willingness and knack for tackling hot-button issues, as a show like "Glee" frequently did, while using that (and especially with this franchise, calculated stunt casting) as a marketing come-on.
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When he was first elected to the State Legislature in 1986, as a 29-year-old county-seat lawyer, he was immediately hailed as a comer — a future governor or senator "straight from central casting," as the North Carolina representative David Price recalls.
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The Call The Midwife actress' casting as Princess Anne was announced last summer without much fanfare, because, as she and I discussed on the phone ahead of The Crown's season 3 release, Anne herself hadn't made many — if any — waves in pop culture.
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And three actors were nominated: Jamie Parker, who plays a grown-up Harry; Anthony Boyle, who plays Scorpius Malfoy; and Noma Dumezweni, a black actress whose casting as Hermione Granger drew some negative comments and led Ms. Rowling to defend the choice.
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Though considering Ghost in the Shell's dismal box office haul, that seems more and more like a false argument, and it was likely not a factor in Skrein's casting, as Skrein is not really a box-office draw on his own at this point.
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We've watched this play out in a dozen different iterations over and over again: Ghost in the Shell (and Scarlett Johansson's casting as a Japanese cyborg) springs to mind most readily, but before that, there was Emma Stone as a quarter-Chinese, quarter-Hawaiian character in Aloha.
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When actress Scarlett Johansson faced backlash over her casting as transgender man Dante "Tex" Gill in the upcoming film Rub & Tug, her initial defensive reaction was to cite Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman as precedent — and an excuse — for cisgender actors playing transgender parts.
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Why it matters: Trump held the rally on the eve of the gubernatorial election, which the New York Times notes the president is "casting as a test of his strength" as he stares down the prospect of a possible impeachment in Washington, D.C. The big picture: Sen.
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Both made her particularly amenable to casting as a kind of refined human clothes hanger in historical epics over the course of the 2000s: King Arthur, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride & Prejudice, a billion more Pirates of the Caribbeans, The Edge of Love, Atonement, Silk, and The Duchess.
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Mongillo's casting as Shinji Ikari is ultimately about more than representation; it's about opening the door for a new generation of trans women to see their experiences mirrored back to them in his story, just as the show's cis audience saw in his story a reflection of themselves.
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I remember Donald way back when and I couldn't be more proud of him, not just because what he has accomplished as a writer and a musician, but how he is taking over Hollywood between Spider-Man and now, Han Solo, where his casting as Lando couldn't be more perfect.
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Read more: The original 'Little Mermaid' actress defended Halle Bailey over racist backlash against her casting as ArielThe next question from the crowd pressed a bit more about the Disney remakes and whether or not the voice actresses gave any advice to the actors who took over their iconic roles.
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"While you have less control in regards to things like editing and co-casting as a model working in mainstream porn, you always have the right to informed consent," Chilly said, noting that performers should know where their videos are going to be posted and what will happen on set.
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" But van Hove's most moving choice is his completely multiracial casting: As Isaac Powell, who plays Tony, tells me, Laurents was never explicit about the Jets having to be white, as they are usually depicted; instead, the script describes them as "an anthology of what it means to be American.
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In the same episode of Lee's podcast, Margaret Cho, a comic who starred in the first Asian American sitcom on network TV, explained how Tilda Swinton reached out to her to discuss the fury over Swinton's casting as the Ancient One in Doctor Strange, which was originally written as a Tibetan character.
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After "Star Wars" fans harassed "The Last Jedi" actress Kelly Marie Tran and its director, Rian Johnson, for months — they didn't like the movie's progressive slant and singled out Tran's casting as emblematic of its faults — the director James Mangold warned that toxic fandom would scare filmmakers away from taking on blockbusters.
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But so far, fan reaction to the latest trailer seems positive, with lots of praise for the remake's apparent faithfulness to the (non-offensive) parts of the animated original, begrudging mind-changing about Will Smith's casting as the genie, and tentative excitement that the remake will feel like an entertaining, worthwhile exercise when all is said and done.
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Fanning the flames in Porchlight's case was the Chicago Sun-Times' inexplicable reference to the casting as "authentic," which baffled onlookers and provoked a discussion about whether "authenticity" has become a buzzword that undermines the point of diverse casting — which is, of course, not to cash in on a trend, but to more fully portray real lived experiences.
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This episode opens with a packed screening of "Strait-Jacket," in which John Waters plays Castle (a stroke of genius casting) as the consummate master of ceremonies, crowding the stage with sexy nurses who toss toy hatchets into the crowd and forcing Joan Crawford to enter from the back of the theater wearing a red gown and wielding a bloody ax.
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While the cast and creators of the Fantastic Beasts sequel have been delicately battling controversy after controversy when it comes to Johnny Depp's casting as Grindelwald (the actor has been accused of domestic abuse by ex-wife Amber Heard) and the portrayal of Dumbledore's (Jude Law) queerness (it was announced that the character would not be "explicitly gay" in the film), star Ezra Miller had some slightly blunter words for critics.
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Debbie, the blonde bombshell with a notable soap opera credit on her resumé and a gleaming house in the suburbs—who waltzed onto GLOW's set smug in her casting as its leading lady (and none too disappointed that her privileged status would rankle with Ruth)—has never considered that some of her castmates, particularly a working class, single mother like Tammé, have not always had the chance to do more genteel work.
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