SNOWFLAKE Challenge No. 12
Challenge #12
In your own space, tell us who you would recast in a film, tv series or webseries, or maybe someone voicing a cartoon or videogame. Or who would you cast to play a character in a book, comic or maybe even your own fiction!
So this is kind of personal to me. Only of late. Initially, when the Han Solo movie was being discussed and a young Han Solo was being talked about, I wanted Dylan O'Brien to play Han Solo b/c I think he would have the right kind of energy given how he was as Styles in Teen Wolf. But obv. I am not in touch w/ anyone at Lucas Films so that didn't happen, rofl, and the actor who played him was also fine. The movie was all good and dandy and I really adored it. But this is not about that...
This is about South Asian representation and especially Trans representation. THE RUNAROUND TO MY POINT: I don't know the deals and the details with what happens w/ films and and back stories, etc... but I do know that I think Priyanka Chopra is a huge problem. I do not like her. I think she's pure trash. LOL. There are multiple problems with her, she's a famous actress from India who represented fairness creams in India, giving into the toxic culture of colourism and basically stating that if you were dark skinned you should get the cream to make you more light skin. Then she tried to make it in the US/Hollywood. She got a bit of setback in her career which she blamed on racism not really recognizing that she was kinda racist and colorist in india. She was in a film where she was like a "party girl" and when she woke up next to a Black man, she was like "omg i have done wrong..." there's a lot of anti=black a lot of racism in Indian media and she was a huge part of it. But when she tried to make it in the USA she blamed "racism" never actually acknowledging her privilege, power, and her stand when she was in India. Then she marries some white dude (whatever the fuck, I don't care...) and there's that one video of how she's some UNICEF ambassador of peace or whatever (not sure the actual title...) and she was confronted by a fan who was from Pakistan and asked PC for some opinions on how Pakistani ppl were being treated and discriminated against and she had her people remove the person's mic and told the person to "stop embarrassing herself." ... and then she did the classic "some of my best friends are pakistani..." She supports the fascist prime minister of india all the while claiming to be a person of color and supporting POC and muslims, etc... she does have a great PR team and she's in like so many hollywood roles now, has a famous restaurant in NYC... it's disgusting. She is pure trash..
My point of all of this is that she was in the latest MATRIX MOVIE... and I hated it b/c of her. Like, she's not a bad actress but that doesn't mean anything -- Kevin Spacey is a good actor and he's a child molester, Bill Cosby got the prestige comedian award and he raped women for years... being a good "actor" doesn't mean you are a good person -- anyway...
Given the fact that the MATRIX films are created by trans women what I really would have wished is for SATI from the matrix franchise to be played by a trans south asian actress. My pick would have been Aneesh Sheth.
I am genuinely disappointed that the Matrix and the SENSE8 creators did not even think twice and got HER... aka PC... and it's gross. She's gross. And I adore the fuck out of Aneesh and wished she was Sati. This entry was originally posted at https://digthewriter.dreamwidth.org/875280.html. Thanks for reading