Ethnic ethics
Actor Ed Skrein withdrew from a cartoon film after protests that he had the wrong ethnic background to play a Japanese-American. Some famous performances which, on the same principle, could be regarded as unacceptable:
— Laurence Olivier blacked up to play the lead role in the 1965 film of Othello.
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