Tilda Swinton played The Ancient One in Doctor Strange, resulting in some backlash.

Doctor Strange opted to go in a different direction with casting The Ancient One.

After Tilda Swinton was announced to be playing The Ancient One in 2016's Doctor Strange, the production came under fire for casting a white actress as a character that has been historically portrayed as an Asian male. Kevin Feige has now stated that he regrets the decision.

The New Mutants original creator Bob McLeod recently expressed his disappointment with the depiction of the characters in the movie, saying some have been whitewashed.

Maybe not as surprising as it seems.

Whitewashing claims have surrounded Dakota Fanning’s Sweetness in the Belly casting, but the backlash appears to be misguided. We break it all down.

When the cast was being assembled, actor Ed Skrein was cast as Major Ben Daimio, who is Japanese in the comics.

The whitewashing of Asian characters is still a major problem in Hollywood: Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell, Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange, and Emma Stone in Aloha are some of the most recent examples. Yet when the Hellboy reboot threatened to follow the same route in casting English actor Ed Skrein as Major Benjamin Daimio, a character of Japanese-American descent in the comics, another casting controversy transformed into an example for the industry. “The public conversation was the same conversation we had,” Lloyd Levin, a longtime producer on the Hellboy films, said on the reboot’s Bulgarian …