The Post About Aladdin Casting

Very recently, Disney announced that they will be doing a live version of Aladdin. Everyone is extremely excited for this, of course, because Aladdin is a great Disney movie. Disney also revealed that they are having a hard time looking for cast members. That left everyone confused because there are plenty brown actors who would be perfect for the movie. Everyone is already recommending that you cast Avan Jogia as Aladdin, but I have other recommendations for casting options.

• Dev Patel from Skins, Slumdog Millionaire, and Oscar nominated movie Lion
• Riz Ahmed from the rap group Swet Shop Boys, HBO series The Night Of, and blockbuster movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Movie
• Rami Malek from USA's hit show Mr. Robot
• Yasmine Sabry is an Egyptian film actress who would be a great fit for Jasmine
• Priyanka Chopra is an Indian film actress who was the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, an very talented Bollywood actress who has been in the ABC series Quantico and in the movie Baywatch
• Sammy Sheik is an Egyptian actor who is best known for his recurring role of Masheer on the hit Fox series 24
• Adam Bakri is an actor best known for playing lead in role in the Academy Award nominated film Omar

As you can see, there are plenty of Middle Eastern and South Asian actors for Hollywood to cast in Aladdin. Bollywood had sooo many actors! Like 1/6 of the world's population are people from Indian. There are literally 1 billion people in India. Bollywood makes more movies than Hollywood does every year.

We all know that Hollywood sucks at casting people of color for roles that are meant for people of color. People like Scarlet Johanssen, Emma Stone, and Matt Damon are famously known for taking roles that are meant for Asian American actors.

Here's What I Think

It's annoying when you take roles in popular movies that can showcase Asian American, South Asian, Middle Eastern talent, but is giving to more well-known white actors so that the studios can make more money. Hollywood really needs to get a hold of their obvious and really annoying white washing problem. There is very little representation for Asian Americans to look up to and Hollywood keeps fucking Asian Americans over. You can find every Middle Eastern actor to play a terrorist in whatever movie that makes white people the hero and brown people the villian. But when you need a Middle Eastern actor to be the lead role, ya'll can't find anybody. It's ridiculous. Casting directors need to do better when casting big budget movies. When we spend more time actually casting roles to the appropriate actors and not just whatever big actor will get the most tickets sold, it will pay off.