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Cameron Crowe apologizes for casting Emma Stone in part-Asian role

Emma Stone, pictured in a scene from 'Aloha.'. YouTube

NEW YORK — Cameron Crowe is apologizing to anyone offended that he cast Emma Stone in a partially Asian, partially Hawaiian role in the film Aloha.

Stone’s character, Captain Allison Ng, is a quarter Hawaiian, and she has a half-Chinese father. In a message posted on his website, TheUncool.com, Crowe says the character was always intended to be someone frustrated that she lacked outward signs of her ethnicity.

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Some, including the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, saw Stone’s casting as another example of Hollywood whitewashing Asian-American movie roles.

READ MORE: Some native Hawaiians protest naming film Aloha

Crowe wrote that “if any part of (Stone’s) fine characterization has consternation and controversy, I am the one to blame.”

The writer-director said he was “grateful for the dialogue” and that he would strive to tell stories with racial diversity in the future.

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