10 Actors Who Thought OTHER Actors Were Better For Their Role
5. Emma Stone - Aloha
Emma Stone was firmly raked over the coals by audiences for playing the part of a quarter-Chinese, quarter-Hawaiian Air Force pilot in Cameron Crowe's wretched 2015 drama Aloha.
Stone's character, Captain Allison Ng, prompted accusations of whitewashing, that Stone was cynically taking a part away from a more ethnically "appropriate" actor for the sheer sake of her more marketable name.
Though Crowe and Stone both defended the casting as based on a real-life person, they also conceded that her playing the part was problematic by upholding existing structural prejudices within the film industry - that is, shutting out ethnic minorities in favour of the white majority.
Stone apologised in a literally global fashion at the 2019 Golden Globe Awards, when Sandra Oh made a joke about the casting only for Stone to loudly shout "I'm sorry!" from the stage.
While Stone clearly didn't see herself above taking the part when she was first cast back in 2012, she appreciates in retrospect that there were better-suited actors for the role.