Rooney Mara to play Tiger Lily in Pan — Page 3

Insisting that minority roles go to underrepresented actors instead of white actors isn't racist. It's fighting for minority representation.

Great. Another opportunity for a battle of political sensibilities that I care absolutely nothing about. And I'm saying this as someone who cares deeply about politics, fairness, and equality.

But Jesus Christ! Tiger Lily in Peter Pan! I can't muster any kind of indignation about this role going to someone who isn't "indigenous" ("indigenous" of Neverland, whatever that means).

PRS, are you black?

I'm still not getting the nepotism

I just think if you're gonna scream RACISM then it needs to be about EVERYTHING.

OH MY GOD like it is so racist of British Vivien Leigh to play Southern Belle Scarlett O'Hara because Vivien Leigh is British.

Just like, OH MY GOD, Rooney Mara is American and she played a Norwegian woman. Rooney Mara is stealing all the roles from deserving minorities! DIE ROONEY, DIE!

And OH MY GOD was Nicole Kidman not available to play that sad tormented mother in A CRY IN THE DARK? How dare Meryl take that part away from some deserving Australian woman? Meryl should give back her Oscar nomination because that's just RACIST.

Don't even get me started on DW Griffith.

If you're going to claim something as absurd as this, be prepared for me to poke holes in the absurdity of your argument.

"Professor Stacy L. Smith and her team analyzed 500 top U.S. box office films released in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 for the racial and ethnic representation both behind the camera and in more than 20,000 speaking roles.

They found that in 2012, only 10.8 percent of speaking characters were Black, 4.2 percent were Hispanic, 5 percent were Asian, and 3.6 from other (or mixed race) ethnicities. Comparatively, over three-quarters of all speaking characters were White (76.3 percent).

Broken down per film, the analysis found that in nearly 40 percent of all movies released in 2012, Black characters comprise less than 5 percent of the speaking cast, while only 9 percent of movies met national demographic trends and had Black actors comprising 12 to 14.9 percent of the cast."
Hollywood continues to be a bastion of homogeneity where people of color are underrepresented, according to a new study from the University of Southern California at Annenberg.

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I don't know if PRS is black but her BBC sure is.

ETA "OH MY GOD like it is so racist of British Vivien Leigh to play Southern Belle Scarlett O'Hara because Vivien Leigh is British."

I am going to go way out on a limb here and guess you don't have a grasp on the differences between race, ethnicity and nationality.

Like many others in this thread.

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Updated On: 3/16/14 at 03:37 PM

I could not possibly care less about anything Neverland related but I agree with you completely. White people have always done a great job with roles, so why should things change now? I don't even know why women get jobs. That Hunt guy from Year of Living Dangerously is doing fine playing a woman on TV. And he's white!!!

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People are just in denial that white is the default and has been since the dawn of man. It's like the saying goes, don't fix what ain't broke and a broken clock is right twice a day.

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"I just don't see how someone can find Rooney Mara playing a fictional character from a fantasy world racist."

Then you have a very narrow understanding of why people have an issue with it.

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So stop talking about it! Case closed!