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timepiececlock"The movie people are here!" yells one boy, and a bunch of excited 11-year-olds lines up to fill out cards and look sternly at the camera.
"What does 'ethnicity' mean?" asks another boy.
"Asian," says Bold.
"If you're Mongolian, put 'Mongolian,' " Ricketts says.
I think I'm going to be ill.
ETA: A good industry timeline of casting events, news-based not fandom-based.
Re: icon: never more appropriate?
Date: 2009-03-04 06:47 am (UTC)They used them and dis-fucking-carded them and they need to be pummeled with public opinion until they make it right. Not that ANYTHING can make up for the way they treated these children like props.
AND FRICKIN' AVATAR ALSK;DFJA;SLDFJKAS F;AS *GNASHES TEETH*
:( I've been telling myself I don't have time to do the letter campaign thing, but I'm going to have to make time now. They don't get how wrong they are and they need to hear it and hear it until they do.