@Miss Jade: Right, but why go to the young son rather than the young daughter?

@John Thompson in: Are You There God? It's Me, Danzig: Wait are you serious? No Wasp!?

@pearlsdream: I am really hoping they pick another Latina actress to do Wonder Woman, personally.

@Sunshineyness: UGH this bothered me so much too.

The fact that she wasn't even used as a character in The Dark Knight makes me really question Chris Nolan's ability to do justice to any of the canonical women in Batman.

Well, casual Fridays make those morning much easier.

@sensitivitycop: There is a question in this VERY INTERVIEW you are commenting on about health.

@fishingwithveron: Super late response, but like, "ethnic" is meant to be othering in this sense, as in, not white. I use "ethnic" because while I am ethnically not white, I am racially white — a white Latina. But I would be upset to see a non-Latina white person playing a white Latina role.

@TheTeofTea: I LOVE the cartoon, like so much that I want to buy all the DVDs and make my future hypothetical children watch it because it deals with gender and disability so so well and appropriately. But it's just a fucking mess and now all the minority kids that got to identify are being told that yet again it's…

@ModernMindOfM: This goes again to my earlier point: if being a certain race is consequential to the character (which, in this case, I'd think being prince of Persia would necessitate a Persian background, or how MLK's blackness is an essential part of his story), then how do you _act_ that?

@ModernMindOfM: I was actually having a discussion about this with someone earlier this week, and I think partly it is different because there's no definitive action that can make you act like a race. Jake can't "act more Persian." With attraction, it might be innate, but there are actions attached to courting…

@curlicue: Thanks for deciding what minorities and anti-racist allies should and shouldn't get upset about. "Popcorn" movies matter even more than "consequential" movies to the extent that the huge glaring racist implications of casting a white man as the Prince of Persia are deemed inconsequential. That they…

@curlicue: Far more people see summer blockbusters than thoughtful films — we should demand change in casting from the movies with the broadest appeal, not niche films.

@curlicue: Why do you think that most actors we've heard of to carry a blockbuster are white, or that there ISN'T a big name go-to Persian actor? It's an entirely self-perpetuating cycle of racism. Prince of Persia is a big name franchise, so yes, there's probably a huge change that the "Average American" would see…

Yeah, he looks hot. And white. Not paying for this or The Last Airbender.

@curlicue: Do...you really think they pick actors for summer blockbusters based on talent and not race? Are you seriously saying that race is not a factor? Seriously?

@Daoudmac: She _isn't_ a terrorist, and in fact has said over and over again she does not support the terrorist actions of the Tigers or the Sri Lankan government. She is basically saying, if supporting the civilians makes her a terrorist by default, she would rather continue to support war refugees than shirk the…

@Daoudmac: Context: She is often associated with a terrorist group by other people, including this article. By speaking out for the Tamil civilians she basically is painted to be a Tamil Tiger sympathizer.

@bmacrex: I think number 4 is more due to the exoticization she's received at the hands of the media, rather than her presentation of her own views on the Tamil separatist movement in Sri Lanka.

@garconniere: Word.