Emma Stone as Allison Ng
Emma Stone is plenty of things, but one-quarter Hawaiian and a quarter Chinese are neither of them. Cameron Crowe chose to gloss over those details when he cast Stone as Allison Ng, an Air Force pilot in the rom-com Aloha. The media condemned the film: “…in a movie that already starred Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, and Alec Baldwin, would it have been so hard to shine the spotlight on an actor with Asian or Pacific Island ancestry?” Eventually, Crowe and Stone issued apologies, and the movie was gutted by critics after bombing at the box office.
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