[Ternneowns]

All I can be is a lumpy white man, imagine my own disappointment.

Hahaha. That's a good one.

I see this issue two ways. One is that casting should be based on merit and the part should go to the person who can play the role the best regardless of ethnic background. On the other hand... it is distracting to an audience member who can tell the difference. I had no idea that Rick Yune was KA, so it didn't detract from my enjoyment of his performance in Snow Falling on Cedars (you thought I was going to say Fast and the Furious didn't you? Well he was hot in that one too.) but I did watch this movie once where they focused on a "Vietnamese" family. Only thing was that none of them looked Vietnamese! I watched the credits after and the actors were nearly all ethnically Chinese (there were one or two Vietnamese actors and one Cambodian).

Most people can't tell the difference though, so why hold good actors back by limiting the roles they can try for? In the stills I've seen of the movie, Zhang Ziyi looks Japanese to me (and before any Japanophiles start flaming, I am ethnically Japanese-Chinese).