Casting Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver
Dec. 23rd, 2013 04:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transemacabreSo it seems to be official that Aaron Taylor-Johnson (best known for Kick-Ass) and Elizabeth Olsen (best known as "the Olsen twins' little sister") are going to be playing Wanda and Pietro in the next Avengers movie.
I am side-eyeing certain people on Tumblr who're pissed off because Aaron and Elizabeth aren't half-Jewish, half-Romany like their characters. First of all, Aaron IS part Jewish (and please note that no one seems to care that neither Michael Fassbender nor Sir Ian are Jewish in the least). Secondly, a lot of Roma are very fair and many are indistinguishable from their European cohorts -- have we learned nothing from the recent high-profile cases in which blonde blue-eyed children have been seized from their families because of course such children couldn't be born to Gypsies, only for social services to shamefacedly return them when it turned out that they are, in fact, the natural children of their parents. I would have been delighted to have real Romanies (are there any half-Jewish, half-Romany actors who're fluent in English out there?) or even just authentic Eastern Europeans to play the Maximoff twins, but I resolve to see what Aaron and Elizabeth can do.
There've been some hints that Rhodey (Don Cheadle) is going to have a substantial role in the second Avengers flick, which I hope means either he's joining the team, or that they're setting him up for a solo movie. Omigod, what if we get War Machine throwing down against Ultron?! Y'all!
I am side-eyeing certain people on Tumblr who're pissed off because Aaron and Elizabeth aren't half-Jewish, half-Romany like their characters. First of all, Aaron IS part Jewish (and please note that no one seems to care that neither Michael Fassbender nor Sir Ian are Jewish in the least). Secondly, a lot of Roma are very fair and many are indistinguishable from their European cohorts -- have we learned nothing from the recent high-profile cases in which blonde blue-eyed children have been seized from their families because of course such children couldn't be born to Gypsies, only for social services to shamefacedly return them when it turned out that they are, in fact, the natural children of their parents. I would have been delighted to have real Romanies (are there any half-Jewish, half-Romany actors who're fluent in English out there?) or even just authentic Eastern Europeans to play the Maximoff twins, but I resolve to see what Aaron and Elizabeth can do.
There've been some hints that Rhodey (Don Cheadle) is going to have a substantial role in the second Avengers flick, which I hope means either he's joining the team, or that they're setting him up for a solo movie. Omigod, what if we get War Machine throwing down against Ultron?! Y'all!
