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Old 10-23-2012, 04:13 PM   #15
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Mandarin as the lead villian makes total sense being he is probably Ironman's biggest enemy. Ben Kingsley is an excellent actor but I wonder why they didn't cast. Chow Yun Fat, Ken Watanabe, Mark Dacascos?.
I'm guessing they purposely avoided an Asian looking actor. It's hard to pull off a live action version of a character like Mandarin without it being super racist. I'm guessing the studio wanted to distance themselves as far as possible from early comic depictions of Mandarin.
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