You aren't the first person to tell me that but, for the most part, I just don't see it. I have to look really hard to find illustrations that look Asian.
The Ahsoka series is coming.
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You aren't the first person to tell me that but, for the most part, I just don't see it. I have to look really hard to find illustrations that look Asian.
She looks Asian to me, but regardless the creators of the character have confirmed she is indeed supposed to be Asian, she basically originated from one of them reading an article speculating about what kind of movie would Indiana Jones be with a female Asian lead, which led to them deciding "what if we created a female Asian Indiana Jones of the Star Wars universe."
I mean, how much of the Boba cast were returning characters?And let the random guessing of which established character she'll be playing commence! (90% of which of course are going to be either Hera or Leia.) Never mind that original characters are still a thing!
My main take-away: We're only now a Zoë Bell, and a Tracie Thoms short of a Death Proof reunion, and I've been waiting for Bell to show up in Star Wars since The Mandalorian season 1.
Kinda in the fence in Mary.. But we'll see.
I like Aphra well enough but I think is better suited to the comics. But, I would be curious to see the casting.
I dream of Chloe Bennett from Agents of SHIELD. *chef's kiss*
Oh, if only you thought to look at *checks notes* literally every piece of cover art she's ever been featured in ever.
If you don't see any Asian features here, then that my friend is a you problem.
Three: Boba, Fennic and Santy.
The Majordomo, the Mayor, Garsa, The Twins, the Mod crew, the water merchant, the Tusken tribe, the idiot Rodian, the new Rancor keeper, the Pykes, and literally all the minor faction leaders: all brand new characters.
I guess if one is feeling pedantic, one could push it to six by counting the Max, Camie and Fixer cameos.
Depends on the story they're telling. Star Wars has always had a weird, chaotic aspect to it, and she fill that niche quite nicely.
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I would definitely be watching an archaeologist break into an abandoned Jedi temple that turns out to be something else entirely, just like how I liked a heist movie like Solo.
Oh, if only you thought to look at *checks notes* literally every piece of cover art she's ever been featured in ever.
If you don't see any Asian features here, then that my friend is a you problem.
She only looks solidly Asian in 2 of those (#5 and #9). Of course, once you know what the artists were aiming for what she really looks like is half white and half Asian, like Olivia Munn and Chloe Bennet. I'm also known to be bad at mixed race ID. I once knew a lady who was half Filipino and half Native American and I had no idea until she told me.
Yup. Like I said. "You problem"
Casting a white person to play an Asian character certainly doesn't make for good optics.Is not seeing and not caring about someones ethnicity and just seeing them as a person, really a "problem"?
Is not seeing and not caring about someones ethnicity and just seeing them as a person, really a "problem"?
When said person's ethnicity is obvious, yes.
Plenty of times where a persons ethnicity was clear, but was still changed in a movie tv etc.
If she was drawn as asian, or implied, then its quite easy to cast one.
If she was drawn as asian, or implied, then its quite easy to cast one.
<pedantic mode on> technically she isn't Asian as there is no continent of Asia in the Star Wars universe. <pedantic mode off>
What you really mean is a character with epicanthic folds, but I realize it's more convenient to use Earth terminology.
So you realize why I used the term, but are still going to lecture me anyway? Cool and normal.
You could maybe, kinda, get away with it a decade or two ago, but now the uproar, especially with a character as popular and prominent as Aphra would cause Disney more of a headache than they are really going to want to deal with.
At this point, Disney is going to want to do everything they possibly can to avoid controversy, not go and create an easily avoidable one.
