While those don’t involve white actors playing Japanese characters, they take Asian media and add in white and Western actors.
Below that, Hispanic-Americans went 4.6 times, African-Americans went 4.2 times, and Caucasian-Americans went 3.2 times.
Hollywood and television’s habit of whitewashing roles is hardly new, but recent years have seen it explode as a topic of conversation.
These changes have slowly grown over the years, reflecting just how much of the moviegoing audience is made up of non-white viewers.
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