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Zutara 10 Day Challenge | Day 03: Dream Team

♔Tell (and show!) us your dream cast for Zuko and Katara

Logan Lerman as Zuko & Kaya Scodelario as Katara

Tom Felton was runner up for Zuko because Draco and Zuko are the same character. I had a hard time picking someone for Katara, so I just decided to go with the person who came to mind first.

Someone just give Logan gold eye contacts and then put bronzing make-up on Kaya, and we’re good to go. And I think Logan and Kaya look good together soo…..

i would prefer a dark-skinned actress for katara but i like kaya so this is okay

No. I am really fucking sick of whitewashing everywhere, even in fancasts— you people just don’t know enough ethnically correct actors because you’ve never fucking BOTHERED TO LOOK. 

I was kind of hoping that people in the Avatar fandom would be more aware of this subject after the extreme white-washing that went on with the live action movie.

Here’s a part of the example letter to Paramount from the “Aang Ain’t White” LJ community which perfectly explains why this kind of casting is wrong:

“The Nickelodeon show “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” on which this film is based, featured Asian and Inuit characters in a fantasy setting inspired and informed by a variety of Asian and Inuit cultures. The characters fight with East Asian martial arts, have Asian or Inuit features, dress in Asian or Inuit clothing, and write with Chinese characters. The cast and setting were a refreshing departure from predominantly white American media, and were a large part of the show’s appeal as well as an inspiration to many Asian American children.

I am disappointed to read that the four actors selected to play the lead roles are all white. While the casting is not final, the statement has already been made: this film will take a culturally Asian and Inuit world and populate it with white actors. Orientalism this obvious and this dramatic is inexcusable, and I would urge Shyamalan and Paramount Pictures to reconsider their casting choices. Asian characters in a world built from Asian cultures should be played by Asian actors. ”

And here are some images from the show itself, also provided by Aang Ain’t White:

There really isn’t any way you can argue that these characters are white. Just sayin’…

first off, no one doubted that the characters were not of their OBVIOUS ETHNIC FUCK IT YOU TWAT!!!! second it was a fan OPINION for actors to play them. the post was not saying that they were any other race, it just pointed out that LOGAN LERMAN TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE ZUKO I MEAN OMG HE IS SOOOOOOO SMEXY!!!! gosh, and are people able to play another race? do you need to be french to play a french person? is it not racist to say that people can only play those of their race? who is really racist here? i think that she should be congratulated for thinking that people can transcend racial boundaries. this is just two characters here and to lynch this post because you love segregation is wrong. also i hated the movie, because there was nothing good about it, but it A: swapped races and didn’t whitewash everyone. there were still different people of different races (which is the important part). B: they added races in the earth kingdom if you actually looked for it.

I’m just going to leave this here for sensible people to laugh at.