GrumpyMorningBoy is right. In 2018, the excuse that the talent doesn't exist just doesn't wash.
To its credit, Disney has been pushing for more diversity, notably in its voice-casting of its animated movies.
See ''Moana'' and its Asian Pacific Islander cast, which discovered Auli'i Cravalho, a Hawaiian teen who'll soon be in NBC's ''Rise.''
But it hasn't always been like this. The original ''Aladdin'' (1992) movie was largely all-white (tho' Lea Salonga sang for Jasmine).
And Roger Ebert criticized what he saw as the film's use of ethnic stereotypes, writing: "Most of the Arab characters have exaggerated facial characteristics - hooked noses, glowering brows, thick lips - but Aladdin and the princess look like white American teenagers." |
