Doctor Strange screenwriter (C. Robert Cargill) on the problems with adapting "The Ancient One" and the accusations of white-washing. A very interesting and complicated issue.

Your solution doesn't take out the politics. Everything about this is political, especially deciding to choose an Asian actor.

We're talking about minimising the issue. Sit there saying "everything is political", is just black & white mentality. You have to move past that and see the big picture. My proposal takes out a huge amount of politics, period.

When you fictionalize the country, you're essentially ignoring the origin of this character who is directly tied to Tibet. And with an Asian actor, you're calling attention to the fact that you chose to choose somebody of Asian race, yet not care enough to make it the same country. You are effectively choosing to actively ignore the Tibetan aspect. That is a political move.

If Tibet is too political for the movie to go near, then it's off the table. Really, you just need to get over that and look at optimal solutions, that stay as close to the story's roots as possible, while minimising complaints. Hollywood's whitewashed solution obviously isn't a good one, hence why this has become such a big issue. It speaks for itself.

The only way I could see this working for the best ways is a woman who is of Caucasian, African, or Hispanic background which wouldn't be a stereotype to associate with Far East magic.

Honoring the far east and stereotyping the far east are two completely different things. This whole "casting an asian to play an asian" argument shows how narrow people's perspectives of this are.

The thing is that you were wrong about this actually. For characters like Heindoll, Hogan, Nick Fury, Ben Urich, and Baron Mordo, The film makers decided to switch race for diversity. I don't give them extra points for that, but I like seeing that they are willing to change the race around. And given what Marvel Studios has done in terms of including more characters of diverse backgrounds, I'd say they can have this one.

I'm all for diversity, but not at the expense of departing from the subject matter. Cast a white actor in place of an asian (with flimsy justifications thrown in), and that is discrimination. Hollywood is well known for Asian discrimination, and you'd be best not to downplay that.

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