Hollywood Cast A White Guy As A Pacific Islander — & Twitter Is Furious

Welp, another white actor is headed to an Asian role near you — actor Zach McGowan is slated to appear in the central role in the film Ni'Ihau, a biopic about native Hawaiian Benehakaka “Ben” Kanahele. As Vulture pointed out, McGowan is a nondescript fellow who describes himself as "that guy from that show" on his own website. Deadline reported Tuesday that McGown would play Kanahele, a decorated World War II hero known for preventing the Japanese takeover of the island of Ni'ihau, in the...