When fans imagined who might play the title role in Marvel’s forthcoming Netflix series Iron Fist, they had some fresh ideas. While Iron Fist is white in the comics, many fans hoped the superhero, a master of martial arts, would be played by an Asian-American actor. On Thursday, those hopes were dashed when it was reported Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones got the job.
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I wish I could say I was surprised but sadly I am not the least bit shocked that when it came to casting Iron Fist they decided to go for yet another generic white actor
“And for the role of Iron Fist, we’re casting… this guy!”
I’m genuinely starting to suspect that the TV/movie industry is cranking these actors out of some kind of high tech cloning machine like the boy band from Gravity Falls…like they ALL have basically the exact same generic face, like they’re the blank slate in a video games character creation screen and the player hasn’t bothered to make any changes they’ve just clicked through the default options and gone ‘This is fine’