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Lionsgate Reboot of Hellboy is already stirring up controversy before it even starts as British actor, Ed Skrein, a white man was cast as Ben Daimio in Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen...the only problem is, the character is a JAPANESE-AMERICAN and his heritage was the central point of the character's backstory!!

Daimio's grandmother was a Japanese imperial assassin in WW2 and so the casting of a japanese actor, or even asian actor for that matter was imperative

Many obected to the role not going to an asianamerican actor and called it another example of Hollywood "whitewashing" asian characters

Cindy Chu said "I guess they want this to fail"

Stephanie Sheh said "Here we go again. Why Hollywood do you keep forcing me to boycott your films?"

Lionsgate has not responded to the outrage but this isn't the first time Hollywood was accused of whitewashing asian characters

Emma Stone's casting as a half-Hawaiian, half-Chinese character in Sony's "Aloha" created controversy which ultimately bombed.

Scarlett Johansson's part as a cyborg protagonist as a Japanese anime remake of Paramount's Ghost in the shell also caused outrage and it too bombed.

Netflix release of Japanese manga adaptation Death Note drew outrage when it transferred a japanese story to Seattle without any asian actors.

Studies have shown that diverse casts often lead to better box office returns and yet the top 100 films of 2015 contained not one leading role for an Asian-American. This has lead to frustration for many prominent Asian-American actors

Are you bothered by white-washing of asian characters is outrageous?.

Ed Skrein - playing japanese character

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/23/438019A000000578-4817846-Another_Twitter_user_was_more_tongue_in_cheek_Introducing_the_He-a-63_1503528131638.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/22/438008AF00000578-0-image-a-73_1503523871483.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/23/4380198F00000578-4817846-Not_happy_Here_we_go_again_one_twitter_user_lamented_Why_Hollywo-a-64_1503528131666.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/23/4380249900000578-4817846-Japanese_history_Comic_book_character_Diamio_s_grandmother_was_a-a-62_1503528131587.jpg

Twitter -

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/23/4380199300000578-4817846-Another_user_took_a_more_sociological_approach_highlighting_the_-a-65_1503528131787.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/23/438019A500000578-4817846-Asian_actor_Simu_Liu_called_out_the_industry_for_not_even_auditi-a-66_1503528131837.jpg

Aloha - Bomb

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/23/4380207200000578-4817846-Not_new_Emma_Stone_s_casting_as_a_half_Hawaiian_half_Chinese_Air-a-67_1503528131984.jpg

Ghost in the Shell - Bomb

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/23/43801DDD00000578-4817846-Not_new_Emma_Stone_s_casting_as_a_half_Hawaiian_half_Chinese_Air-a-68_1503528132014.jpg
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