whats ur opinion on the aladdin remake? u like it?
โDisney has admitted to using makeup to help dozens of white extras look Middle Eastern for crowd scenes in its upcoming, live-action remake of โAladdin,โ The Sunday Times reports. According to the British newspaper, โThe company says it resorted to darkening white people for roles requiring skills that could not be readily found in the Asian communityโ near Longcross Film Studios, where shooting is underway, โsuch as stunt men, dancers and camel handlers.โ
Located in the English county of Surrey, Longcross is about a 50-minute drive from London, home to a 1.1 million-person population of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Arab descendants.
The movieโs director, Guy Ritchie, declined to comment for the Times story, which quotes a onetime stand-in for one of the filmโs leads, Kaushal Odedra.ย โOn one set, two palace guards came in and I recognised one as a Caucasian actor, but he was now a darkly tanned Arab,โ Odedra said. โI moved inside the marquee where there were 10 extras and two were Caucasian, but they had been heavily tanned to look Middle Eastern.โ He also witnessed a line of approximately 20 โvery fair-skinnedโ actors waiting to have their skin tones darkened, but declined to raise the issue with โthe almost entirely white crew, [which] seemed somewhat intimidating.โ
These articles from the sunday times and, for non-subscribers,ย indiewireย came out january last year and thatโs when i decided i would never watch the film. please donโt give your money to productions that do brownface!
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