Salon.com > William Fichtner http://www.salon.com Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:14:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Michael Bay casts white guy in Japanese role http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/michael_bay_casts_white_guy_cast_in_japanese_role/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/michael_bay_casts_white_guy_cast_in_japanese_role/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:57:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13336916 Apparently there aren't enough Asian actors around -- or at least none that wanted to sign on to be the newest nemesis to those lovable reptilian warriors, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. None? Apparently not, because the producer of the 2014 Ninja Turtles flick has now been forced to whitewash the part of Shredder (aka Oruku Saki.) After weeks of speculation, it's been confirmed that the part will be filled by William Fichtner, whom by now we've  established as a serial villainous role-grabber.

A.V. Club reports:

Having apparently determined that no Japanese actors would dare be a part of the Jonathan Liebesman-directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, presumably given the original text’s importance to the Shinto religion, producer Michael Bay has been forced to make a decision regarding the reboot of a nostalgia property that will potentially upset people, just this one time.

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