This is just embarrassing. It’s not as though it’s a surprise. If films like the live action The Last Airbender, 21 and the (possibly, maybe) upcoming live action Akira have taught us anything it’s that Hollywood has a serious problem with casting non-white actors who aren’t black, even when the role calls for them. That goes doubly for when the role calls for actors who are Asian, Inuit or Native American. Better to just cast a bankable white actor and accuse anybody who objects of being overly PC.
Depp does have a chromosome or two of Cherokee and Navajo blood in his veins but not enough to make him any less white and certainly not enough to make this…
… look any less idiotic than this:
