This is not a big deal, but HE is once again mildly irked by another obviously ill-fitting POC inserted into an early 19th Century British film, an Oscar-nominated short comedy film called Jane Austen’s Period Drama.
The hunky Hawaiian actor who stands out like a sore thumb (although his narrow eyes, smallish cranium and aggressively bulging cheekbones will presumably meet with Justin Chang‘s approval) is listed in the credits as Ta’imua, but whose full name is Lachlan Taimua Hannemann.
Ta’imua plays Mr. James Dickley, a pretentious, posturing fellow with an appalling ignorance of female biology. Co-director and co-writer Julia Asks plays Miss Estrogenia Talbot. Her directing-writing collaborator is Steve Pinder The producer is Elli Legerski. Why did Asks, Pinder and Legerski hire a young, respendently brawny Pacific islander to play an eligible bachelor in a Jane Austen satire set in the early 1800s? Gee, I wonder.
Will Jane Austen’s Period Drama win the Oscar for best non-doc short?
Wiki excerpt: “Three months ago Emma Thompson joined the project under the title of ‘Executive Menstrual Advisor.'”