I have written before on white-washing in Hollywood films. I actually started a whole freaking podcast because the trend was rising with no end in sight. Roles were passed out, one by one, that participated in Asian-American erasure: Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange, Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell, […]
Valerian and the City of the Female Erasure
“The first woman I fell in love with was probably Laureline. She was totally free and badass and it was a very modern heroine at the time and I was totally in love with her.” Director Luc Besson may have told Collider that, as a 50-year-old director, he was not […]