Actor John Leguizamo criticized the casting in Illumination’s upcoming The Super Mario Bros. Movie because he’s upset over its lack of an “actor of color” in the title role, according to Bounding Into Comics.
Mario and Luigi are supposed to be people of color? Since when did Italian become a color?
Here, you literally have an actor Chris Pratt, presumably of European descent, playing a video game plumber of European descent.
But that’s not ok? White people aren’t even allowed to play white people anymore?
Or is this about Chris Pratt being suspected of being a Christian? Gasp. I know, right? Maybe leftists are mad anytime Chris Pratt gets a job.
Oh, and this is John Leguizamo pretending to be Asian in a movie nobody saw called The Pest.
November 19, 2022 at 11:27 am
You know as well as I do that Italian whiteness was considered suspect during an earlier version of racism. https://youtu.be/lQuQVVBMexc?t=48
November 19, 2022 at 1:56 pm
As an Italian-American, yes, we were considered “Latins” by the WASPy types when we arrived. the boundaries of these made-up racial categories are always changing based on politics.
November 21, 2022 at 2:45 pm
Who is playing the Gumpas?