What casting choice still annoys you?

For me it's Natalie Wood as Maria in West Side Story (1961). She couldn't sing so she had to be dubbed for all of her songs by Marni Nixon. And she wasn't even Puerto Rican or Latina. She was American with an extremely Russian background. It's one thing to have an actress dubbed, Marni Nixon did it for a lot of musicals back in the day, but then to have the actress you pick be a white actress in a film about a rivalry between Latin and White gangs looks ridiculous when the Latina love interest is whiter than some of the Jets.

Submitted April 22, 2017 at 03:22AM by thisshortenough http://ift.tt/2oyiUOO