Peter Shinkoda, who played the character of Nobu in the Dardevil series , wanted to push a rant . According to him, the arc dedicated to his character was dismissed on the orders of Jeph Loeb, the former director of Marvel Television, for not very bright reasons.
"Jeph Loeb told writers not to write for Nobu and Gao - and it has been said over and over to many writers and show-runners - that everyone doesn't care about Chinese and Asians," the actor said. during a virtual discussion around the series relayed by the BBC.
A fundamental problem
“The writers told me they regretted and were reluctant to do it because they really wanted to use the character for the story, but they were warned,” continued Peter Shinkoda.
The series was canceled in 2018 and the story of Nobu's character will certainly stay there. But for the Canadian actor, it is a fundamental problem that we find in many Hollywood productions like the Blade trilogy that he cites as an example. Hundreds of Asian characters are killed there without their story being even mentioned, indicating for him an obvious racist bias.
#WaiChingHo aka #MadameGao and I, aka #Nobu of #Daredevil weren't at the season 2 premiere ... because we weren't invited. Wai was insulted ... and that pissed me off A LOT. We found out about the event as it live-streamed. "They" were sorry we were "overlooked". #HellsKitchen pic.twitter.com/S6i8FSHiBt
- Peter Shinkoda (@PeterShinkoda) July 26, 2020Another fact advanced by Peter Shinkoda: he would not even have been invited to the premiere of season 2 of Dardevil , like Wai Ching Ho with whom he shares the bill.
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