Dammit Bryke and Shyamalan, SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO AT WORK.

[misora]

Hokay. Because I think the casting of the Last Airbender is made of supreme fail, as I mentioned last post, here are my choices for the live-action roles.

Be aware, I did end up casting two characters with white actors. But the rest are appropriately matched, I think.



Katara:

choice 1: Kristen Kreuk (Caucasian/Chinese)

choice 2: Maggie Q (Vietnamese/Taiwanese)



Sokka:
Roger Fan
This guy is such a cutie. I'm partial to him in this role too, as then I can claim my b/f looks like Sokka. XD


He's such a dorky goofnut, too. "Water triiiibe." XD


Zuko: This is hard. I don't see Zuko *completely* Asian (as I don't either with Azula), if only because of his pale skin and more delicate features - so I think he'd be a happa (half Asian/Caucasian). One of these three *tries not to drool*-

Rick Neely (Korean/White)

Jason Milot (Korean/French Canadian)

Mike Lewis (Indonesian/ Canadian)


God, those men are hot. What is it with half-Koreans? Fuck.

Anyway, moving on.

Happas make great choices for some of the other characters, as well.

Suki: Tiffany Hsu (Taiwanese/Caucasian)


Toph: Lara Liang (Taiwanese/Russian)



But for the old Fire Nation guys, it's back to the cultural origins.

Ozai: Andy Lau


Iroh: Tony Leung (have to fatten him up a bit, but he's in his 50s so he's perfect for this role)


Azula: Leah Dizon (French American/Chinese Filipino) Sexy deadly bitchy princess.


Mai: Chiyaki Kuriyama (Japanese, of Kill Bill fame) hahahahahaha Srsly, she's actually pretty cute, but she does that "ho-hum boooorrred" look pretty damn well. XD


Ty Lee: Devon Aoki (Japanese/Brit/German)

(she's even wearing pink! :D)

Aang: Just cast Zach Tyler Eisen already! He has the voice and everything...

He's 15 this year (born in '93), so he's fine for the role.

Zhao: Jason Isaacs. I can't help myself with this one either; his voice really made that part. Give him some chops and he's all set.



Edit: FUCK! I almost forgot Jet.

Jay Hernandez. (With longer hair and tiger hooks, obviously.)


Mmmmm.

:D




Feel free to send flames, hate mail, and death threats this way. Kthx.

Comments

[misora.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

Zhao (esp played by Isaacs) and Aang are the ONLY characters I could see being completely white in this adaptation. For the others there's no excuse why they white-washed everyone.

Glad you like the choices. :D

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was willing to root for Isaacs as Zhao because his voice is just too perfect -- that and the creators designed the character with Isaacs in mind (and one white actor amid a host of people of color wouldn't have made any sort of political statement, especially not the statement this all-white casting does!). I like your choice for Aang. I don't know a lot of actors in his age range of any race, so I'm not sure who I would have picked.

M. Night's Zuko choice is the one that's driving me particularly bonkers, though. Especially considering that Zuko's voice actor was Asian.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Actually I cast Aang's VA as himself, too. XD

But that's a really old pic of Zach Eisen. I can't seem to find a recent one, but he's like 15 years old now. :p

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

LOL

Oh that's right, you did! Gah. I'm so bad with names and faces when it comes to non-animated people. *blush*