La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for March 18, 2015
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Transcript:
Cuco: Hey look! It's Michelle Rodriguez! Eddie: Are you going to play the Green Lantern? Rodriguez: What??! No! Minorities need to stop stealing white people's superheroes! Cuco: Green Lantern can be white, black, Asian, or Latina. Or even a babbling actor.
If I remember correctly her remarks were about superhero movies and the need for minorities to find their own mythology..I had a problem with that. Sometimes the best actor for a comic character is not of the same race. .No one but Michael Clark Duncan could have carried the role of Marvel’s The Kingpin. The sheer size and heft of that man can make a normal person pee in their pants a bit and THAT is what The Kingpin should be..Also the thought of Morgan Friedman as Perry White in Superman vs Batman makes sense, as a actor he can carry that role. He can really give that supporting role dimension and depth..Idris Elba has been rumored to be playing The Green Lantern. He can give that character an on screen presence that Ryan Reynolds lacked (though Ryan will be killer as Deadpool)..I think it’s wonderful when Hollywood looks past the color pallet to cast characters from comic book we grew up with.