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Originally Posted by blankall
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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Movie is also I think even as much as 50% funded by a China company
so a villain that can only come across as super racist if played Asian wouldn't go so well, this was their only choice
