SCARLETT JOHANSSON HAS BEEN CAST
IN AN UPCOMING MOVIE THAT IS BASED ON JAPANESE ANIME REFERRED
TO AS A GHOST IN THE SHELL.
PEOPLE ARE UPSET ABOUT IT
BECAUSE SCARLETT JOHANSSON WILL BE PANT PLAYING A JAPANESE
CHARACTER.
AS YOU GUYS KNOW, SCARLETT JOHANSSON IS NOT
JAPANESE.
SHE'S NOT EVEN ASIAN.
SHE IS AS WHITE AS CAN BE.
THERE SHE IS.
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL, BUT SHE IS NOT ASIAN.
PEOPLE
ARE WONDERING WHY SHE IS BEING CAST IN ASIAN ROLE WHEN THERE IS
A PLETHORA OF AWESOME ASIAN ACTRESSES OTHER THAT
WOULD DO A PHENOMENAL JOB IN THIS MOVIE.
SHE'S ALSO NOT HAVE CYBORG.
I THINK THIS CASTING IS UNACCEPTABLE.
THIS IS BEEN AN ONGOING ISSUE IN HOLLYWOOD.
IT DRIVES ME
INSANE BECAUSE WHENEVER PEOPLE MOVE HERE AND THEY OVERPOPULATE
MY CITY WITH THEIR ACTING ASPIRATIONS.
I WANT TO PULL THEM ASIDE AND BE LIKE DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW
THE SYSTEM WORKS?
THERE'S A SMALL CIRCLE OF HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES, A
LIST LIBERTIES THEY GET CAST IN EVERY ROLE.
EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT ASIAN OR BLACK, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
THEY WILL SOMEHOW GET CAST IN ROLES WHERE THEY ARE NOT REALLY
APPROPRIATE.
IF YOU ARE STARTING OUT AS A NEW ACTOR, THERE IS NO CHANCE
FOR YOU.
SO THE BIG ARGUMENT IS, WE HAVE THIS MOVIE COMING OUT AND
WE WANT TO DRAW BIG AUDIENCES.
HOW DO YOU JOB BIG AUDIENCES?
YOU NEED A BIG NAME.
BUT HOW DOES AN ACTOR OR ACTRESS BECOME
A BIG NAME IN LESS YOU GIVE THEM A SHOT?
THINK ABOUT SOME DOG
MILLIONAIRE.
CAN YOU IMAGINE TO WHITE PEOPLE PLAYING SLUM DOG
MILLIONAIRE'S CHARACTERS?
NO.
I ALMOST COULD KNOWING HOLLYWOOD.
OF COURSE ITíS NOT THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
THAT WAS A BREAKOUT MOVIE FOR THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS - I
FORGET THEIR NAMES.
SLIGHTLY IRONIC.
THEY WERE INCREDIBLE IN IT.
THE MOVIE DID REALLY WELL.
I REMEMBER THAT MOVIE WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST
MOVIES OF THE YEAR.
FREIDA PINTO.
YES.
I WISH SHE DID MORE STUFF BECAUSE I THOUGHT SHE WAS A
PHENOMENAL ACTRESS BUT IT IS THIS VICIOUS CYCLE WHERE
THESE PRODUCTION COMPANIES JUST REFUSED TO GIVE MAYBE NOT
SO BIG NAME ACTORS AND ACTRESSES A SHOT.
I GET IT.
I AM NOT SAYING THIS AS AN EXCUSE, I AM SAYING
AS AN EXPLANATION.
THEY THINK LOOK, IF YOU ARE GOING TO OPEN A
MOVIE BIG, YOU NEED BIG STARS ATTACHED TO IT.
YOU MIGHT NOT
KNOW THIS EXTRA LAYER WHICH IS THAT IF THE BIG STARS ARE NOT
ATTACHED TO A MOVIE, IT JUST FLAT-OUT DOESN'T GET MADE.
THIS
MOVIE HAD A JAPANESE ACTRESS ATTACHED TO IT, IT MIGHT NOT
EXIST.
I AM NOT SAYING THAT IS RIGHT I THINK IT IS RIDICULOUS.
NOW THEY WILL HAVE EXCUSES, THE HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVES WHO BY THE
WAY ARE HERE IN LIBERAL HOLLYWOOD, THE ACTORS A LOT OF
THEM ARE LIBERAL.
THE EXECUTIVES ARE NOT SO MUCH.
THEY WILL HAVE EXCUSES OF I HAVE STUDIES HERE SHOWING THAT THIS
ACTRESS OR ACTOR WILL BRING IN THIS NUMBER OF TICKET SALES, AND
I NEED THOSE TICKET SALES OTHERWISE I WON'T BE ABLE TO
AFFORD MAKING THE MOVIE.
A LOT OF TIMES, THEY GET DETACHED FROM
THEM AND THEY'LL PLAY ARNOLD'S WORSENING HER FOR ANOTHER COUPLE
OF DECADES A LOT OF MONEY THAT THEY CANNOT PROVE THAT HE BRINGS
IN.
WHY?
I AM NOT GOING TO GET FIRED FOR PUTTING ARNOLD MOVIE.
I AM NOT GOING TO GET FIRED FOR PUTTING SCARLETT JOHANSSON IN A
MOVIE.
IF I PUT $100 MILLION INTO A MOVIE AND I DIDN'T ATTACH A BIG
NAME TO
IT BECAUSE I WANTED TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND HAVE AN ASIAN
STAR IN IT, I COULD GET FIRED AND I AM NOT GOING TO GET FIRED.
SO FAR 65,000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED A PETITION TO GET AN
ASIAN ACTRESS TO PLAY THIS ROLE.
I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THEIR
FRUSTRATIONS AND WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY IN THIS COUNTRY WITH
CASTING THE WRONG PEOPLE FOR THE WRONG ROLES.
IN THE 1970S,
THERE WAS THIS VERY POPULAR COMMERCIAL ABOUT ñ
THEY CALLED IT THE CRYING INDIAN.
THE CRYING NATIVE
AMERICAN.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
THIS PERSON IS NOT NATIVE
AMERICAN, BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHAT HIS TRUE IDENTITY IS AFTER
WE WATCH.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE A DEEP ABIDING RESPECT FOR THE NATURAL
BEAUTY THAT WAS ONCE THIS COUNTRY.
AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T.
PEOPLE STARTED POLLUTION.
PEOPLE CAN STOP IT.
GOD BLESS THE 1970S AND 80S.
HOMEBOY WAS ITALIAN. 100% SECOND-GENERATION ITALIAN.
IT'S
AWESOME.
AND THEN THERE WAS THIS EPIC MOVIE, EPICLY BAD
MOVIE THAT JOHN WAYNE WAS IN CALLED THE CONQUEROR.
IT WAS A
HUGE FLOP, AND HE WAS CAST TO PLAY GENGHIS KHAN.
TAKE A LOOK
AT THIS.
HE TOOK WHAT HE WANTED WHEN HE
WANTED IT.
SHE MEETS MISES FIRE WITH ICE.
YOU'RE THE KINDLING OF LOVE.
BEFORE THAT DAY DAWNS THE VOTERS WILL HAVE FEASTED ON YOUR
HEART.
THEY LOOK MORE KLINGON THAN ASIAN.
IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVEN'T LEARNED ENOUGH.
HOW DOES GENGHIS KHAN HAVE A WESTERN ACCENT?
SO HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME.
YOU
WOULD'VE THOUGHT THAT THEY WOULD OF GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT BETTER
BUT APPARENTLY WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.