Thread: Disney Halts 'The Lone Ranger' With Johnny Depp And Gore Verbinski -- Now Back On?

Originally Posted by rebeccam42

Remember Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's? And that was just a small part. Disney seems to want Johnny Depp to play a drunken lunatic in all their movies -- remember when Johnny Depp used to act different parts? -- which seems like a political-correctness avalanche waiting to happen.
We all know during the radio and black & white TV era it was OK to stereotype Indians and have them played by white guys - but this would be like doing a movie in black face if done today. I don't jump on the political correctness bandwagon usually, but this is pushing it. Give me a good actor with native roots like Darren Burrows or Adam Beach and make it about friendship not an attempt at cheesy caricature.

Generally I agree. But did you see Robert Downey Jr. doing blackface in Tropic Thunder? It was a riot.