This week in cultural appropriation: Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton and a conversation between two THR writers. By Rebecca Sun, Graeme McMillan This week, Marvel dropped the first teaser ...

Doctor Strange has already been controversial ... Not only was the design in line with how Ditko drew other characters of Asian descent, but it also matched up with his ideas that a mystical ...

By Graeme McMillan Marvel’s upcoming magical movie Doctor Strange has come under fire for whitewashing the character of the Ancient One — in comic book lore, an Asian man, but played by Tilda ...

The Ancient One is one of Marvel comics most controversial characters, but the way the Doctor Strange film reworked it was ...

Doctor Strange may have ... explaining that he was attempting to avoid Asian stereotyping with the casting, but admitting that in doing so he erased an Asian character from the story.

This is obviously frustrating, and it's clear that Doctor Strange isn't alone in its problematic elements. But the movie does offer a glimmer of hope when it comes to Asian representation, in the ...

Traditionally, the Ancient One has been depicted as an Asian man. But in Marvel’s new superhero movie Doctor Strange (out Nov. 4), the character is played by non-Asian actress Tilda Swinton.

Marvel’s upcoming film Doctor Strange has been somewhat shrouded ... that I was erasing a significant potential Asian role." Instead, the character Wong, played by The Martian's Benedict Wong ...

As with all characters who take the hero’s journey, Doctor Strange has a wise ... for this role that’s traditionally depicted as an Asian man. According to the official Marvel website ...

The upcoming Marvel Studios movie "Doctor Strange" has faced controversy for casting "the Ancient One," a character who is Asian in the original comic, with white actress Tilda Swinton.

The Marvel movies have gone the other nastily racist route by whitewashing characters that should be played by actors of Asian descent. This, of course, is where Doctor Strange stepped into the ...

Despite Swinton’s elegance, Marvel took some heat casting a European woman in the a role of a character that is traditionally an Asian man, but with future Doctor Strange movies there could be ...