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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
It does, but just into other ethnic minorities.
Naveen Andrews on Lost is ethnically Indian, but he plays an Iraqi on the series. Daniel Dae Kim on the same series is elated because he actually gets to play a Korean. Most of the time he's "generic asian" or some other ethnicity. Cliff Curtis felt similarly on Whale Rider, playing a Maori. Usually he plays a Hispanic. When Vin Diesel first started acting, he refused to talk about his ethnicity because he was worried that he'd be pigeonholed into certain roles, but I think it's since come out that he's half black, half white.
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While I was investigating the Geisha thing yesterday, I learned that the actress who is going to play the lead in
Memoirs of a Geisha is Chinese. Does that get any play in Japan? I'd think that would piss the Japanese public off, but what do I know.
[I just looked it up on IMDB and apparently the part was first offered to a Korean actress. Maybe no one acts in Japan.]
