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‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’ (variety.com)

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[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago

The fact that they used a woman to play the yellow ranger while using a man for the Super Sentai footage wasn't great either.

[-] vaguerant@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago

I think that part was pretty defensible. If they had caved to the original footage, they'd have a team of five dudes and one girl. It made sense to rebalance the ratio slightly to make it 2:1 instead of 5:1.

[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I get why they did it but..."we'll just cast an Asian woman, no one will know the difference" is a little not great. Meanwhile DIC was taking notes while working on Sailor Moon.