Japanese?
Olivia Munn is Pyslocke in X-Men Apocalypse
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Japanese?
X-Men series has:
The 6'2" Australian Hugh Jackson playing the 5'3" Canadian Wolverine
English Ian McKellen playing German Magneto
English Patrick Stewart playing NYC born Professor X with a British accent
Scottish James McAvoy playing Professor X with a British accent
Scotish Alan Cumming playing German Nightcrawler
In shape Kevin Durand playing morbidly obese The Blob
Actress of Asian descent playing a character of Asian descent? Completely unbelievable.
The 6'2" Australian Hugh Jackson playing the 5'3" Canadian Wolverine
English Ian McKellen playing German Magneto
English Patrick Stewart playing NYC born Professor X with a British accent
Scottish James McAvoy playing Professor X with a British accent
Scotish Alan Cumming playing German Nightcrawler
In shape Kevin Durand playing morbidly obese The Blob
Actress of Asian descent playing a character of Asian descent? Completely unbelievable.
Really...
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Yess yess yes! Love me some munn munn
"Really" what? Is it seriously that hard to find a Japanese actress to play the part of a Japanese character? Sure seems like it out in Hollywood.
Do you think, perhaps, that it was a satire of people in this thread who have irrational hate for Olivia Munn. Something to think about, friend.
Or rewrite her character to not suck if her power makes her relevant to the larger plot?
All of those people are the same race as the characters they are portaying.
Let me guess, you think Rinko Kikuchi should be in this. She's a worse actor then Munn is.
DonasaurusRex
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Asia is a big continent I thought Kwannon was Japanese.
Future PhaZe
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I don't mean to get us off track, but were all the rape allegations against Singer bs or...
iShouldGoPro
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she was alright in Deliver Us From Evil.
I think she'll do fine.
I think she'll do fine.
Tim the Wiz
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She started out as a TV host, so she's not allowed to be talented.
...Scatter...
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Really though? Over the top sexist. What don't you like about her that creates an elaborate scenario in your mind where she would have to whore herself out to get "to the top".
Get out of here with this shit..
Because you stupid? I dunno? Why would someone feel that way about someone they never met?
No idea who that is.
Edit: From Pacific Rim? Nope. Needs someone who can pull off something closer to blue blood snob.
Ninja Scooter
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Japanese is not a race broseph.
Englishman playing a German is just as much of a departure.
You mean the woman with a mother of Chinese descent who fled to America from Vietnam isn't considered Asian? If being half Asian isn't considered being Asian, why is Barack Obama never considered white?
I think you just ended racism.
Psylocke has had two bodies ... one of Euro heritage, the other of East Asian.
Munn is half Euro half East Asian. Where is the problem again? Is she too Asian, or too European?
She's not Japanese, that's all that matters to him.
What if the movie version...isn't Japanese?
Where did I say she isn't Asian? She's not Japanese. Hollywood often gets non-Japanese people to play Japanese characters. Why?
Don't bring logic into this!
Then why is he bringing up race? Japanese isn't a race.
Ninja Scooter
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Same reason they often get British people to play Americans.
Angelus Errare
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Oo, Oo, I know this answer! Pick me! Pick Me!! *raises hand frantically*
Because there are lots of stories about her doing that very thing?
PaulKersey
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Yup. This news has ruined everything. I was hoping for Psylocke and this should be a glorious day for me, but I can't stand Munn.
I'm simply questioning why. But I am enjoying you guys trying to spin this.
Oh, an avatar quote too? Classic. You sure showed me!
-tetsuo-
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Because hardly anyone cares
Sketch_Turntable
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Olivia is 35
Ben Hardy is 24.
No Archangel/Psylocke relationship?
This potential X-Force movie is close to being real...?
Ben Hardy is 24.
No Archangel/Psylocke relationship?
This potential X-Force movie is close to being real...?
Obama appropriate black culture when he lived in Chicago, you can't really say that Olivia Munn appropriated and absorbed anything Vietnamese nor (stretching it) Chinese. So you can argue that she does not represent Asian American.
Angelus Errare
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They could do that, not like her comic book counterpart is this amazing character. Outside of "omg asian, hawt!!! uguuuu!" she is a pretty shit character. Only becoming more than one dimensional with Remender.
Honestly whatever Singer writes for Asian Psylocke will be better than her entire comicbook mythos.
Ninja Scooter
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Nobody is spinning anything except for your apparent confusion between ethnicity and nationality.
Starfish Hero
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Then why was there a big reaction when they cast a black actor as Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four movie?
DontBeThatGuy
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I'm not about to call her pretty good, but the bolded basically sums it up. It seems some people are putting these films on a very high pedestal, which is certainly amusing. Then again, If you don't like her, you don't like her, and that can fuck with you during any kind of entertainment.
Still, it's X-Men, and a perfunctory X-Men character at that. Chill.
Parallax
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noone cares about the other braddocks. especially jamie
Starfish Hero
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Is this for real
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