The Oscar-winning actor is receiving criticism for his upcoming role in Netflix's The Outsider, where he portrays an ex-WWII soldier who becomes indebted to Japan's seedy criminal underworld.
.@JaredLeto stars in the first trailer for Netflix's #TheOutsider pic.twitter.com/GuWRkzsI54
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) February 22, 2018
Jared Leto as a Yakuza Killing Machine? No thank you to this #WhiteWashing mess. h/t @jesthevu https://t.co/TSrUc0ZasO
— Nancy Wang Yuen (@nancywyuen) February 23, 2018
Seriously!?! Another one of those movies where the Asian actors are props and the story--set in JAPAN--revolves around the ONE Hollywood actor?!?
— Abdul R. Siddiqui (@PakistaniPepper) February 23, 2018
It's different because the film's creators created a white role for a white actor that appropriates another culture rather than, say, cast a white actor for an asian character? The transgression is all the same.
— CJ Melendez (@CJMelendez_) February 23, 2018
netflix stop whitewashing asian roles challenge https://t.co/r4RwKt4v5k
— caro (@un1verse94) February 22, 2018
