8 Insane Recent Cases Of Hollywood Whitewashing

1) Gods of Egypt

Gods of Egypt, or The Exodus Controversy: Part II, is only the latest in the Hollywood whitewashing trend, but for some reason the stir it’s caused appears to be eclipsing the scandal surrounding any other recent whitewashed movie. Undoubtedly part of the reason critics want to tear into it is because it’s so objectively terrible, but don’t let that obscure how offensive the film is.

In the place of BME actors in this Egypt-set film, you have the white Danish Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, white Australians Brenton Thwaites and Courtney Eaton, white Scottish Gerard Butler, white English Rufus Sewell, and the African-American Chadwick Boseman, presumably thrown in to avoid accusations of lack of diversity.

That line of thinking, evidently, didn’t work.