{"id":11830,"date":"2011-04-19T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11830"},"modified":"2011-04-19T11:36:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:36:05","slug":"takei-asian-american-actors-slighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/04\/takei-asian-american-actors-slighted\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei: Asian-American Actors Slighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A film adaptation of the <em>Akira<\/em> Manga is being planned and a petition is being circulated to encourage Warner Bros. to include Asian-American actors.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=160772770646669\">petition on Facebook<\/a>, the eight actors that are thus far being considered for the roles of Tetsuo and Kaneda in Akira are all non-Asian-Americans.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Takei0802101.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11832\" title=\"Takei080210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Takei0802101.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One actor familiar to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans is on that list of non-Asian-American  actors. <strong>Chris Pine<\/strong> is one of the five actors being considered for the  role of Kaneda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If not in a film called <em>Akira<\/em>, for characters named Kaneda and Tetsuo, when will Asian-Americans get to star in a Warner Bros film?&#8221; asks the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Takei tweeted his opinion on the matter. &#8220;<em>Akira<\/em> epic fail,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All actors up for Kaneda &amp; Tetsuo are white?&#8221; He then asked his followers to &#8220;Sign &amp; RT the [virtual] petition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film adaptation of the Akira Manga is being planned and a petition is being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3605,2419,2415],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-akira","tag-pine","tag-takei"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11835,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions\/11835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}