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I seem to recall some anger about the Ancient One casting.
They were like we wanted to swap the gender but we’re worried a strong Asian lady would be too Dragon Lady Stereotype. Like fuck off and cast Michelle Yeoh, she would have nailed it.
They also wanted to cut Wong, like WTF? Though ultimately making him a peer/equal instead of a servant was a great change.
I like my Wongs uncut tyvm
That's because woman
Tilda Swinton has always, and will forever, exceed gender limitations.
Still fuckin' hot in a Tilda Swinton kind of way though.
I'm not into translucent people
Yeah there was, but I very much doubt it was from the same soyjack types who complained about the little mermaid and snow white