In the mid-1990s, a Hollywood producer suggested that Julia Roberts play activist Harriet Tubman.
She was a winning combination: an American icon and the highest-grossing actress.
There was only one drawback, Tubman was black, a trifle that she tried to settle with a "so long ago that no one remembers."
He may even have considered her to be moderate in her pretensions, asking why he couldn't play her Brad Pitt in Bo Derek Fulani pigtails:
Harry Tubman
.
Hollywood has never had any problem telling stories about other races as long as they are played by whites and, if possible, by men.
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Kamala Khan, Marvel's First Muslim Superhero
They know their audience.
The insults received by Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran for their excessive role in the new
Star Wars trilogy, according to the highly toxic galactic
fandom
, still resonate at Disney
.
Women in space that aren't just
Barbarella
-esque erotic solace ?
And also flanked by a black and a Guatemalan.
Is it the galaxy of George Lucas or that of Carmen Sarmiento?
Now his ears are ringing again with
Ms. Marvel,
who finds it ugly to be a Muslim, although no one has complained that Superman is a Methodist or a Presbyterian Wolverine —I know these absurd facts thanks to
L'Osservatore Romano
, oblivious to the excesses of the curia, but not to the
zeitgeist
.
Also that he is "an unbearable teenager", he is no more so than Tom Holland's
Spiderman
, and I can't even imagine Tony Stark at the age of turkey.
What really bothers is that the protagonist is a woman.
And worse, Pakistani.
Those who condemned it before it was broadcast did not do so because of its quality, but because of its origin and gender.
They have a lot of quinine left to swallow, in weeks the Hulka Lawyer will arrive and neither will Brad Pitt interpret it.
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