Jessica Alba Says Marvel Movies are 'Still Quite Caucasian', Calls for Better Representation
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Actress Jessica Alba starred as Sue Storm in the 2005 film Fantastic Four and the 2007 blockbuster Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,
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at a time when the comic book film genre was dominated by white actors. In recent years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has shown more diversity.
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Their first Muslim superhero was seen in the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, which released in June, 2022. The Oscar-winning film Black Panther in 2018 was described by director Ryan Coogler as probably
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his most personal film to date and Japanese American director Destin Daniel Cretton brought an Asian American superhero to the big screen with the 2021 Marvel film Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings.
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But Alba says there is still a way to go when it comes to representation in Marvel films. “Even if you look at the Marvel movies – that’s the biggest driver of fantasy and what’s happening right now in entertainment …
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it’s still quite Caucasian. I would say I was one of the few back in the day … and it was before Marvel was sold to Disney … but it’s still quite … more of the same," she told Glamour magazine.
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