MAJOR FAIL

[cathybites]

Due in theaters in summer 2010, "Airbender" has already begun to face a bit of controversy over the casting of white actors like Rathbone, Ringer and McCartney to play Asian characters — a concern [Jackson Rathbone] was quick to dismiss. "I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan," he said of the transformation he'll go through to look more like Sokka. "It's one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit." - Jackson Rathbone is a moron

They should've just gotten Mickey Rooney to play the part.

in case you are wondering what this is all about: aang_aint_white

Comments

[ishie]

What.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

I don't even know. I can't believe someone would be so stupid as to say something like that.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

That's just so gross I don't even know what to do with it.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

As if what he said wasn't bad enough, you get all the girls in the comments defending him because he's hot. Just...UGH. UGH UGH UGH.

[indirajames.livejournal.com]

'quick to dismiss'. Why, those are new and exciting words that have never occured in discussions of this nature before!

What a moron.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they didn't say something about the minorities getting uppity.

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

thats like taking the epic fail that already existed with this project and now just making it explicitly and unambiguosly racist.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I could have lived with it if he'd just said he'd been cast and would try to do his best to portray the character, but to take it there? oh no, that is NOT ON.

[walkawayslowly.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazing amounts of ridiculous.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

He obviously did not watch Tropic Thunder.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Fuck you, man. NO.

*rage*

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how he could think it was okay to say that. Is he really that much of an idiot? UGH.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes, apparently he is.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how anyone has trouble seeing that. man, this whole situation just keeps finding new ways to piss me off.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

What an asshole.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

Somebody needs to play him a recording of him saying that. Maybe then he'd realize how much of a douchebag he sounded like.

Then again, maybe not. :\

[canellaphile.livejournal.com]

"I definitely need a tan"?
Like the tan Fisher Stevens got in Short Circuit?

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously surprised he didn't say something about using tape to slant his eyes.

[maschalismos.livejournal.com]

...did this idiot actually say that? DID HE? [rageaholics]

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

HE DID. I just...I don't even KNOW. How can you even begin to deal with stupidity like that?

[franzeska]

I've never seen the show, but that picspam made me kind of want to watch it. The movie on the other hand...

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

yah, I have little interest in the show, but I most DEFINITELY have no interest in the movie.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

I just keep wanting to bash my face into my keyboard over and over and over. WHO THINKS THAT'S OKAY?

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

morons, that's who.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

I think I need to lie down.

[(Anonymous)]

"I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan,"

Someone needs to paste this quote over a screencap of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

That is a BRILLIANT idea.

[siriusslash.livejournal.com]

And that is exactly why young immature actors shouldn't be allowed to speak in public without some sort of intelligent adult supervision. And what would be the downside to hiring actual Asian actors to play Asian characters???? Makes sense to me but then again maybe that's why I'm not in the movie business???

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

And what would be the downside to hiring actual Asian actors to play Asian characters????

One of my favorite reasons that people have been using is 'But the children want to see white actors.' *headdesk*

[siriusslash.livejournal.com]

Ugh!!! That has to be the on the top 5 of the worst excuses ever!!!

[til-shes-irish.livejournal.com]

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I...
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Well, it's happened. I'm officially speechless.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

It's like he's not even listening to the words coming out of his mouth.