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.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

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

[walkawayslowly.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazing amounts of ridiculous.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Fuck you, man. NO.

*rage*

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

What an asshole.

[canellaphile.livejournal.com]

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

[maschalismos.livejournal.com]

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

[franzeska]

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

[antheia.livejournal.com]

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

[(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.

[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???

[til-shes-irish.livejournal.com]

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