Not Quite Black Or White: Actors Who’ve Played Race-Bending Roles
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Meghan Williams
Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, And James D’Arcy in Cloud Atlas
Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, and James D’Arcy all play a variety of non-Caucasian characters in Cloud Atlas, but it was their roles as Korean men that stirred allegations of cultural insensitivity from an Asian media advocacy group, which alleged that the “bad yellowface make-up” made the men look like Star Trek aliens.
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