Joe Wright's new "Pan" film project, which is his version of J. M. Barrie's classic "Peter Pan", has gotten a lot of media attention and angry fans lately due to the latest casting choice.
Rooney Mara is in final negotiations for the role of Tiger Lily.
As great of an actress, and as beautiful Mara is, we still can't get over the fact that they chose a white actress to play a Native American role, a role which is already scarce to find as it is for a real Native American actress.
The worst part is that we can't even say that they tried looking for a Native, as Prospector Films tweeted a response saying that, "(Native American actress) Kawennahere Devery Jacobs auditioned auditioned for the role but was told that they were looking for a Caucasian instead."
We love Rooney, and we're really excited for the film but this decision made by them was terribly irresponsible. So if they do decide to pick someone else, we at Bubblebeam Mag are proud to present these Native American actresses that could rock the part as well as Rooney could!
Devery Jacobs
She auditioned for the role and they turned her down because she was Native American? The 20 year old actress has been turning heads since she had been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Aila in Rhymes for Young Ghouls, at the Canadian Screen Awards. Plus, she's breathtakingly gorgeous. How could they have turned her down?
Q'orianka Kilcher
Q'orianka had already took the world by storm with her role as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's "A New World" epic when she was just 14 years old! Now that she's 24, she could fit in the role as well as Rooney in terms of age, and she has the terrific acting chops to boot. A bonus fact about her is that she's a great environmental and human rights activist.
Julia Jones
The English, Native American (Choctaw and Chickasaw) and African-American actress has starred in the Twilight movies and ER, and has since than gained the adoration and a following worldwide. Twilight does that to people.
Vanessa Hudgens
Ashley Callingbull
The Canadian actress even starred in Blackstone, an unmuted exploration of community, power and politics on a First Nation reserve. So she definitely fits the part. She's also a model, a prize winning beauty queen and an international motivational speaker for TED talks and Harvard. What more could you possibly want?
There are also probably more actresses that are of Native American descent who are out there and who are just waiting for a huge Native American role like Tiger Lily in Pan to come one in a blue moon, but the role would only be given to Caucasians.
Lots of other roles that were meant for other races, like olive skinned Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games, ended up being a role for Jennifer Lawrence.
The issue of given roles of other races to white actors is a big one, and it is something that needs to stop at some point, because actors of different races can do just as good of a job as Caucasians, and they can sell tickets (look at Pacific Rim!), we just need to be given the chance.
