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Kudos to New Moon‘s Summit Entertainment and director Chris Weitz for bringing on board award-winning casting director Rene Haynes who is well-known for her work on Native projects ranging from Dances With Wolves to Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Each member of the wolf pack she cast is of Native American/First Nation descent: actors Chaske Spencer (Sioux), Bronson Pelletier (Cree-Metis), Alex Meraz Purepecha-Tarasco), Kiowa Gordon (Hualapai), and Tyson Houseman (Cree).
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What would be nice is if they didn’t wait for special circumstances to cast with diversity.
You know, so movies and TV shows set in say, New York City, could actually look like um, New York City, and not some weirdly distorted who-even-wants-to-say-why version?
Or if nothing else, just so we could retire the word “token”?
That would be nice.
Huzzah! Now why does this seem like such a monumental ass-pain to the folks making ‘The Last Airbender’?
How is it diverse when everyone is of the same race? It’s the opposite of diversity.
Great question! Diversity or the level thereof is generally an indication of non-white, non-caucasian participation.
It usually just takes one person to break through prejudice. Good for them.
The cast is really creating buzz in Vancouver. It’s a city with a large native population and the positive influence this will have on the local youth is amazing.
Good for the production!
Because whenever I think of Native Americans, I think of werewolves. Delightful! I hate to guess what they’ll cast the Jewish actors as.
Funny – Like Joanna, the first thing that came to mind for me was The Last Airbender, too! – a movie about ancient Asian civilizations with an all-white cast. thanks for selling out, M. Night!
They are not actually cast as werewolves, they are supposed to be shape shifters Dorothy. And this is not a slight on the Native Americans, it has a back story to it which is explained in the saga and is actually implying how close to nature the Native Americans are. Why you even needed to make a comment about Jews is beyond me!
Excuse me, but these aren’t ordinary werewolves (or shapeshifters, if that’s what you want to call them). They are cradle-robbing werewolves. They get a hard-on when they see babies. So, keep your baby daughters away from these perverts.
Satan – do you really think Stephenie Meyer’s saga would be so popular amongst so many diverse groups if it contained perverts in anyway shape or form?? If you think that then you have obvsiously misunderstood the context in which it was written. The characters in question are only teenage boys themselves and they do not ‘get a hard on’ when they see babies. The whole point of the story is that they imprint on a person which means they want to protect the object of their affections, if that object is a child it is in a fatherly way. Try getting your facts right before making such comments
Well, if that was my baby daughter, I wouldn’t want that dude and his imprinting anywhere near her. It’s fucking creepy. Go imprint someone of your own age, you fucking child molester.
Anyway, why am I even talking about this gigantic piece of shit? I mean, vampires that sparkle in the sunlight? It’s beyond retarded.
The bottom line: Twilight is a huge success because teenage girls are fucking stupid.
It’s a success because its currently filling the void. There have always been a lack of good films for young adults, especially young women.
I just finished reading the second book in the trilogy and yes there are some silly things in there. But it’s not all bad.
I think you’ll find that a good majority of the fans aren’t teenage girls. I for one am a married woman with a 4 year old of my own. Have you even read the saga???
how wonderful! I wasn’t too sure if I wanted to see the sequel, but now that I know how diverse the cast will be, well shoot, I simply can’t wait! Now lets all strip naked and sing “This land Is Your land, this land is my land…”
Pay no attn to Satan’s senile dad. His position is typical of fanboys who rave about any kind of sadistic guts-n-gore comic-book crap, while reflexively damning anything or anyone that appeals to females of any age. Whether that’s the result of jealousy or galloping ignorance is a question I’ll leave to you.
Get a Clue — you seem to have a pretty narrow definition of diversity. The new native American cast members are from a variety of different tribes and backgrounds. Sounds pretty diverse to me.
Emma, I think Stephanie is calling. Dinner’s ready. What a fucking apologist! LOL!
Thanks Dorothy!! lol. No but seriously, If anyone thought it was perverted (who has actually read the saga) then they completely misunderstood the whole concept, but anyway totally agree with you Marley, this was about diversity in film and yes they are now a pretty diverse cast.
Well, if you ask me, Twilight could have used some guts-n-gore. I mean, hello, it has vampires and werewolves (oh, I’m sorry, shapeshifters) in it!
Well, if you can call these poor excuses vampires. They are the lamest bunch of vampires I’ve ever seen. They’ve been totally pussified. Thank you very much, Stephenie Meyer. I bet Dracula is spinning in his coffin right now.
I mean, really? A 100-year-old vampire who’s still a virgin? Who also has spent pretty much his entire life going from high school to high school? Vampires that sparkle in the sunlight? Vampire baseball? Vegetarian vampires? If you didn’t know any better, you’d think that this was a fucking parody on vampire movies. Come to think of it, it probably is.
Yeah, PC wins! We’re all good people now because we unquestionably cheer for diversity for diversity’s sake. Yeah! We’re good people.
Oh please, Greg, with the “PC” crap. The filmmakers were obviously trying to stay true to the book. What is so “PC” about media images reflecting the world we live in? And to Get a Clue: it’s diverse because with the native american actors there will be multiple races in the film, although I’m sure that the leads will all be mostly white, which will make you happy I’m sure.