(Given I didn’t say it, it’s nice to see you back again, angryliberal.)
Yeah, Hollywood being a place that tends to create against its own “interests”, at least in terms of what actors and even a good chunk of the directors believe, is also part of what makes it so annoying and weird. I mean, Hollywood’s true interest is of course making money, but it’s just weird to realize that for how “liberal” and “progressive” the majority of the actors (supposedly) are, they tend to say (or at least have little clout in saying) how white-washed certain things become because of studio executives who are attempting to appeal to the majority of America (and possibly the world) or at least think they are.
It’s just like how a good deal of actors in Hollywood are openly not heterosexual in their personal lives, but basically have to give vague answers or outright lie to not sully their appeal and how sexuality that tends up in movies (or TV until very, very recently) tends to be either heterosexual or sexless, unless it’s either as a stereotype “gay best friend” or just an outright segregated “gay movie”. Hell, even that doesn’t stop Hollywood from white-washing things since I heard they did some white-washing of the main character in that Stonewall movie apparently even though that was already a “gay movie”. Not that “the gays” can’t be racist as fuck, but gods damn, that’s telling on a lot of levels given it’s based on a historical event that pretty much anyone could easily research if they actually wanted to do so.
I’m legitimately expecting Jubilee to either barely show up or die in the upcoming movie because of this, actually. Possibly both given the previous X-Men movies, especially the abomination that was X3, shows that the studio isn’t afraid to make named characters who were of at least in moderate popularity in the comics into utterly minor ones and then kill them off, possibly en masse, on top of that.
I mean, before Deadpool, Colossus was in X2 technically…for all of a minute. It’s even worse with Psylocke, who arguably shows up in X3 for even less time before getting wiped out by Phoenix.
That’s just somewhat par for the course with the X-Men movies outside of First Class being thinly veiled Wolverine movie, though. Given Wolverine isn’t in this, maybe she’ll actually survive if she has more than a minor role in anything given it gives them less incentive to endanger or kill off one of his adopted “daughters”.
