He goes on mentioning other findings, such as, “‘It’s not true to the comic.’ Or even, ‘They’ve destroyed it!'” Reading those words must have been disheartening, but then so is a lot of what’s out there on the web and social media.įrom the sounds of it, Jordan has gotten used to hearing those criticisms, which sucks to hear. They must be doing it because Obama’s president’,” Jordan wrote in an op-ed published over on Entertainment Weekly. “Turns out this is what they were saying: ‘A black guy? I don’t like it. Suffice to say, what the actor found was a whole lot of ignorance. Jordan knew not to take too close a look at what people were saying when he was first cast, but after shooting the film he decided he “wanted to check the pulse out there” on the internet. The Human Torch - a character who is blonde-haired and blue-eyed in the comics and was played by Chris Evans in the 2005 adaptation and its sequel. One such change was made for Fox‘s reboot of Fantastic Four, which sees Michael B. Yes, when it comes to comic books I think we all probably understand a lot of these characters are white men and women in their source material, that’s wonderful, but that doesn’t mean things can’t change when their stories are adapted to the big screen. And yet black, Hispanic, Asian, and other racially diverse characters - and women, too - are largely shunted to minor roles, a practice that becomes strikingly obvious almost every time a major studio blockbuster hits the big screen. Last I checked a large fraction of the United States population is composed of non-white men and women. It’s kind of hard to believe it’s 2015 and we are still having conversations about the lack of non-white characters in film and television.
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