Today in whitewashing: White guy cast as Native Hawaiian hero in 'Ni'ihau'
 

Today in whitewashing: White guy cast as Native Hawaiian hero in 'Ni'ihau'
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If there's one screamingly obvious lesson to be learned from the recent casting controversies over Ghost in the Shell, Doctor Strange, Aloha, Gods of Egypt, Exodus: Gods and Kings, etc., it should be that audiences aren't putting up with whitewashing anymore.

But it seems **t everyone got the memo.

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The latest bit of questionable casting involves Black Sails star Zach McGowan, who's been cast to star as Ben Kanahele in Ni'ihau. Gabriel Robertson's historical drama takes place in 1941, when Shige**ri Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot, crash-landed on the Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau.* Read more...

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